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The British Discovery of Hinduism in the Eighteenth Century by Prof. P. J. Marshall 9780521092968
RRP: €46.40€38.41One of the incidental consequences of the success of British arms in eighteenth-century India was the appearance of a number of publications which reflect the intense curiosity of contemporary Europeans about strange peoples, their manners and religions... -
Visual Culture in Contemporary China: Paradigms and Shifts by Xiaobing Tang 9781107446373
RRP: €27.36€24.12Exploring a wealth of images ranging from woodblock prints to oil paintings, this beautifully illustrated full-color study takes up key elements of the visual culture produced in the People's Republic of China from its founding in 1949 to the present day... -
Cine-Mobility: Twentieth-Century Transformations in Korea's Film and Transportation by Han Sang Kim
RRP: €49.92€40.29In Cine-Mobility, Han Sang Kim argues that the force of propaganda films in Korea were derived primarily from the new mobility afforded by transportation. Kim explores the association between cinematic media and transportation mobility, and its... -
Hiroshima Traces: Time, Space, and the Dialectics of Memory by Lisa Yoneyama
RRP: €34.51€26.82Remembering Hiroshima, the city obliterated by the world's first nuclear attack, has been a complicated and intensely politicized process, as we learn from Lisa Yoneyama's sensitive investigation of the 'dialectics of memory.' She explores unconventional... -
Ancient India: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Indian History, Starting from the Beginning of the Indus Valley Civilization Through the Invasion of Alexander the Great to the Mauryan Empire by Captivating History 9781637165393
RRP: €28.55€19.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637165393Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 134Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm)... -
Kashmir in Conflict: India, Pakistan and the Unending War by Victoria Schofield
RRP: €27.36€24.31The valley of Kashmir continues to be a major flashpoint in South Asia, threatening the stability of a region of great strategic importance. This book, now in its fifth updated edition, examines the conflict over the former princely state of Jammu and... -
Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River by Alice Albinia 9780393338607
RRP: €27.97€23.01One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains and flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. It has been worshipped as a god, used as a tool of imperial expansion, and today is the cement of Pakistan's... -
Postcolonial Vietnam: New Histories of the National Past by Patricia M. Pelley
RRP: €28.55€25.18New nations require new histories of their struggles for nationhood. Postcolonial Vietnam takes us back to the 1950s to see how official Vietnamese historians and others rethought what counted as history, what producing history entailed, and who should... -
Offspring of Empire: The Koch'ang Kims and the Colonial Origins of Korean Capitalism, 1876-1945 by Carter J. Eckert
RRP: €33.31€29.20According to conventional interpretations, the Japanese annexation of Korea in 1910 destroyed a budding native capitalist economy on the peninsula and blocked the development of a Korean capitalist class until 1945. In this expansive and provocative... -
The Portuguese in India by M. N. Pearson 9780521028509
RRP: €27.36€23.28The Portuguese were the first European imperial power in Asia. Dr Pearson's volume of their history is a clear account of their activities in India and the Indian Ocean from the sixteenth century onwards written squarely from an Indian point of view... -
Nine-Tenths of the Law: Enduring Dispossession in Indonesia by Christian Lund
RRP: €26.78€25.80An exploration of the relationship between possession and legalization across Indonesia, and how people navigate dispossession The old aphorism "possession is nine-tenths of the law" is particularly relevant in Indonesia, which has seen a string of... -
Resistant Islands: Okinawa Confronts Japan and the United States by Gavan McCormack 9781442215634
RRP: €35.70€32.00Now in a thoroughly updated edition, Resistant Islands offers the first comprehensive overview of Okinawan history from earliest times to the present, focusing especially on the recent period of colonization by Japan, its disastrous fate during World War... -
Bakumatsu Japan: Travels through a Vanishing World by Aime Humbert 9789492722201
RRP: €23.79€20.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492722201Author Aime HumbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Toyo PressPublisher Toyo PressWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 10mm -
Nanjing 1937: Battle for a Doomed City by Peter Harmsen
RRP: €22.60€16.45The infamous Rape of Nanjing looms like a dark shadow over the history of Asia in the 20th century, and is among the most widely recognized chapters of World War II in China. By contrast, the story of the month-long campaign before this notorious... -
The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume VII: The Memoirs of Pre-Han China by Ssu-Ma Ch'ien
RRP: €59.50€52.85This volume is part of the first complete translation (in nine volumes) of the Shih chi (The Grand Scribe's Records), one of the most important narratives in traditional China. Compiled by Ssu-ma Ch'ien (145-c. 86 B.C.), it draws upon most major early... -
Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan by Giles Milton 9781250778253
RRP: €22.61€14.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250778253Author Giles MiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 132mm * 28mm -
Force Recon Diary 1969 by Bruce H. Norton 9780804106719
RRP: €9.51€7.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804106719Author Major Bruce H. NortonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
A Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China by Benjamin A. Elman
RRP: €99.96€90.57In this multidimensional analysis, Benjamin A. Elman uses over a thousand newly available examination records from the Yuan, Ming, and Ch'ing dynasties, 1315-1904, to explore the social, political, and cultural dimensions of the civil examination system,... -
Machiavelli's Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan by Richard J. Samuels 9780801434921
RRP: €77.35€58.10Two late-developing nations, Japan and Italy, similarly obsessed with achieving modernity and with joining the ranks of the great powers, have traveled parallel courses with very different national identities. In this audacious book about leadership and... -
Healing with Poisons: Potent Medicines in Medieval China by Yan Liu
RRP: €33.31€28.73Winner of the 2023 William H. Welch Medal, sponsored by the American Association for the History of MedicineA revealing study of risky cures in classical Chinese pharmacyAt first glance, medicine and poison might seem to be opposites. But in China's... -
Why Vietnam Invaded Cambodia: Political Culture and the Causes of War by Stephen J. Morris 9780804730501
RRP: €28.55€25.18On December 25, 1978, the armed forces of Vietnam launched a full-scale invasion of Cambodia. That event marked a turning point in the first and only extended war fought between two communist regimes. The Vietnamese forced out Pol Pot's Khmers Rouge... -
Ginseng and Borderland: Territorial Boundaries and Political Relations Between Qing China and Choson Korea, 1636-1912 by Seonmin Kim 9780520295995
RRP: €35.70€27.72At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Ginseng and Borderland explores the territorial boundaries... -
Beware the Dragon: China - 1000 Years of Bloodshed by Erik Durschmied
RRP: €22.60€15.65"Beware the Dragon" is all about "them and us" - a fast-moving tale of historic events, the reasons behind them, the decisive battles, and the bloodshed and horror they caused. Erik Durschmied's vivid survey of the fateful centuries... -
The Chinese Enlightenment: Intellectuals and the Legacy of the May Fourth Movement of 1919 by Vera Schwarcz
RRP: €41.65€33.49It is widely accepted, both inside China and in the West, that contemporary Chinese history begins with the May Fourth Movement. Vera Schwarcz's imaginative new study provides China scholars and historians with an analysis of what makes that event a... -
The Pearl of Dari: Poetry and Personhood among Young Afghans in Iran by Zuzanna Olszewska
RRP: €33.31€28.73The Pearl of Dari takes us into the heart of Afghan refugee life in the Islamic Republic of Iran through a rich ethnographic portrait of the circle of poets and intellectuals who make up the "Pearl of Dari" cultural organization. Dari is the name by... -
The Fall of Language in the Age of English by Minae Mizumura 9780231163033
RRP: €26.18€20.66Winner of the Kobayashi Hideo Award, The Fall of Language in the Age of English lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance of one's own language in this period of English-language dominance. Born in Tokyo but raised and educated in the United... -
Paper, Performance and the State: Social Change and Political Culture in Mughal India by Farhat Hasan 9781316516812
RRP: €89.25€80.61This book explores the changing socio-cultural world in early modern South Asia, and locates the agency of the Mughal state therein. The development of literacy and new forms of engagement between literacy and performance prompted the opening up of new... -
Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan by Max M. Ward
RRP: €27.36€24.18In Thought Crime Max M. Ward explores the Japanese state's efforts to suppress political radicalism in the 1920s and 1930s. Ward traces the evolution of an antiradical law called the Peace Preservation Law, from its initial application to suppress... -
Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century Hanchao Lu 9780520243781
RRP: €39.27€36.16How did ordinary people live through the extraordinary changes that have swept across modern China? How did peasants transform themselves into urbanites? How did the citizens of Shanghai cope with the epic upheavals--revolution, war, and again... -
Hong Kong: The Road to 1997 by Roger Buckley 9780521469791
RRP: €34.50€28.32Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
China's Imperial Past: An Introduction to Chinese History and Culture by Charles O. Hucker
RRP: €35.69€32.01A work unique in the sweep of its design and scope, intended expressly for the general reader interested in human history and culture, this is a vivid panoramic survey of the vast course of Chinese civilization from prehistory to 1850, when the old China... -
Fallacies in the Allied Nations' Historical Perception as Observed by a British Journalist by Henry Scott Stokes 9780761868095
RRP: €35.70€31.50In 1941, Imperial Japan rapidly brought an end to the British Empire in Asia. Because a non-white race dared to upset the white colonialists' status quo in Asia, the British resented the Japanese long after the war. Mr. Henry Scott-Stokes states that he... -
The Corporation That Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational Nick Robins 9780745331966
RRP: €101.15€77.78This is the history of the East India Company and its enduring legacy as a corporation, dealing in exploitation and violence. The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational. Its trading empire encircled the globe, importing... -
History of China: A Captivating Guide to Chinese History, Including Events Such as the First Emperor of China, the Mongol Conquests of Genghis Khan, the Opium Wars, and the Cultural Revolution by Captivating History 9781647488680
RRP: €21.38€13.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647488680Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)... -
Zuo Tradition / Zuozhuan: Commentary on the "Spring and Autumn Annals" Volume 1 by Stephen Durrant 9780295999173
RRP: €122.57€106.55Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan; sometimes called The Zuo Commentary) is China's first great work of history. It consists of two interwoven texts - the Spring and Autumn Annals (Chunqiu, a terse annalistic record) and a vast web of narratives and speeches that... -
Nomadic Narratives: A History of Mobility and Identity in the Great Indian Desert by Tanuja Kothiyal 9781107080317
RRP: €82.10€73.97The Thar Desert, which is today divided by an international boundary, has historically been a frontier region connecting Punjab, Multan, Sindh, Gujarat and Rajasthan. This book looks at the Desert as an historical region shaped through the mobility of... -
The Indonesian Language: Its History and Role in Modern Society by James N. Sneddon 9780868405988
RRP: €33.26€30.88This important book, the first of its kind, is a historical, social, cultural and linguistic study of Indonesian. Indonesia is the fourth most populous nation in the world, and one of the most linguistically complex. Its ethnic groups speak more than 500... -
Japan's Postwar History by Gary D. Allinson
RRP: €29.74€26.19Reviews of the first edition- "Allinson promises a comprehensive synthesis... that integrates analysis of political, economic and social topics.... This book deserves a prominent place on any reading list in modern Japanese studies... and could well... -
Translating Buddhist Medicine in Medieval China by C. Pierce Salguero
RRP: €73.78€64.24The transmission of Buddhism from India to China was one of the most significant cross-cultural exchanges in the premodern world. This cultural encounter involved more than the spread of religious and philosophical knowledge. It influenced many spheres... -
The Princes of India in the Endgame of Empire, 1917-1947 by Ian Copland
RRP: €27.36€24.59Ian Copland's comprehensive and fascinating study of the role played by the Indian princes, the maharajas and nawabs of South Asia, in the devolution of British colonial power is long overdue. By rehabilitating the princes as subjects of serious...