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M. N. Roy: Marxism and Colonial Cosmopolitanism by Kris Manjapra
RRP: €44.02€38.71This is a work of South Asian intellectual history written from a transnational perspective and based on the life and work of M.N. Roy, one of India's most formidable Marxist intellectuals. Swadeshi revolutionary, co-founder of the Mexican Communist... -
The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East by Kishore Mahbubani 9781586486716
RRP: €20.22€18.99For two centuries Asians have been bystanders in world history, reacting defencelessly to the surges of Western commerce, thought, and power. That era is over. Asia is returning to the centre stage it occupied for eighteen centuries before the rise of... -
The Routledge Handbook of Asian Security Studies Sumit Ganguly (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA) 9780367491659
RRP: €54.73€47.75The Routledge Handbook of Asian Security Studies provides a detailed exploration of security dynamics in the three distinct subregions that comprise Asia, and also bridges the study of these regions by exploring the geopolitical links between each of... -
Gateway to Japan: Hakata in War and Peace, 500-1300 by Bruce L. Batten 9780824830298
RRP: €32.07€30.88A thousand years ago, most visitors to Japan would have arrived by ship at Hakata Bay, the one and only authorized gateway to Japan. Over the ages, Hakata was a staging ground for Japanese troops on their way to Korea and ground zero for foreign... -
The Culture of the Meiji Period by Daikichi Irokawa 9780691000305
RRP: €53.55€42.03The description for this book, The Culture of the Meiji Period, will be forthcoming.Reviews"This book, a translation of Irokawa's 1969 classic Meiji no Bunka, is best described as an analysis of popular political consciousness in the Meiji period and its... -
Gendering Modern Japanese History by Barbara Molony 9780674028166
RRP: €35.64€29.07In the past quarter-century, gender has emerged as a lively area of inquiry for historians and other scholars, and gender analysis has suggested important revisions of the "master narratives" of national histories-the dominant, often celebratory tales of... -
The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume II: The Basic Annals of the Han Dynasty by Ssu-ma Ch'ien
RRP: €46.41€41.08This second volume of the ongoing annotated translation of Ssu-ma Ch'ien's Shih chi (The Grand Scribe's Records), widely acknowledged as the most important early Chinese history, contains the "basic annals" of five early Han-dynasty emperors. The annals... -
Righteous Republic: The Political Foundations of Modern India by Ananya Vajpeyi
RRP: €53.49€43.55What India's founders derived from Western political traditions as they struggled to free their country from colonial rule is widely understood. Less well-known is how India's own rich knowledge traditions of two and a half thousand years influenced... -
An Officer and His Holiness by Rani Singh 9780670089192
€21.36In 1959, the Dalai Lama escaped from Tibet to India, where he was granted refuge. To track his position and escort him to safety was a carefully calibrated operation that few know about. This book tells the story of how an Indian officer in the North... -
A Tibetan Revolutionary: The Political Life and Times of Bapa Phuntso Wangye by Melvyn C. Goldstein 9780520249929
RRP: €28.56€22.41This is the as-told-to political autobiography of Phuntso Wangye (Phunwang), one of the most important Tibetan revolutionary figures of the twentieth century. Phunwang began his activism in school, where he founded a secret Tibetan Communist Party. He... -
Separatism Among Indian Muslims: The Politics of the United Provinces' Muslims, 1860-1923 by Francis Robinson 9780521048262
RRP: €36.88€34.13Why some Indian Muslims under British rule should have organised politics on a communal basis is one of the most important problems in the history of the subcontinent. Insistence on a separate Muslim political identity led eventually to the foundation of... -
Tradition, Treaties, and Trade: Qing Imperialism and Choson Korea, 1850-1910 by Kirk W. Larsen
RRP: €28.50€23.13Relations between the Choson and Qing states are often cited as the prime example of the operation of the "traditional" Chinese "tribute system." In contrast, this work contends that the motivations, tactics, and successes (and failures) of the late Qing... -
A Business History of India: Enterprise and the Emergence of Capitalism from 1700 by Tirthankar Roy 9781107186927
RRP: €89.25€81.73In recent decades, private investment has led to an economic resurgence in India. But this is not the first time the region has witnessed impressive business growth. There have been many similar stories over the past 300 years. India's economic history... -
Mass Vaccination: Citizens' Bodies and State Power in Modern China by Mary Augusta Brazelton
RRP: €53.55€46.98"Mass Vaccination comfortably establishes itself as the leading and indeed essential monograph on the history of vaccination in modern China; a much-needed contribution to the history of medicine that will undoubtedly become a textbook in our age of... -
Times Past in Korea: An Illustrated Collection of Encounters, Customs and Daily Life Recorded by Foreign Visitors by Martin Uden 9780415548809
RRP: €52.35€45.74In earlier times, for the Chinese, Korea was 'the country of courteous people from the east', and for westerners 'the land of the morning calm' or 'hermit kingdom'. In this fascinating collection of writings on times past in Korea the author helps to... -
An Outline of a Theory of Civilization by Yukichi Fukuzawa
RRP: €33.32€25.94Yukichi Fukuzawa rose from low samurai origins to become one of the finest intellectuals and social thinkers of modern Japan. Through his best-selling works, he helped transform an isolated feudal nation into a full-fledged international force. In... -
The Art of Being Governed: Everyday Politics in Late Imperial China by Michael Szonyi
RRP: €26.18€20.98An innovative look at how families in Ming dynasty China negotiated military and political obligations to the stateHow did ordinary people in the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) deal with the demands of the state? In The Art of Being Governed, Michael Szonyi... -
The Candidate's Dilemma: Anticorruptionism and Money Politics in Indonesian Election Campaigns by Elisabeth Kramer
RRP: €30.93€27.18In The Candidate's Dilemma, Elisabeth Kramer tells the story of how three political candidates in Indonesia made decisions to resist, engage in, or otherwise incorporate money politics into their electioneering strategies over the course of their... -
Japan's Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century: Continuity and Change by Lam Peng Er 9781498587976
RRP: €41.65€36.83This edited collection analyzes the innovative changes in Japan's foreign policy. Pursuing new relationships with South Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe, Japanese initiatives include regional peace-building and human security activities, Asian... -
Grassroots Fascism: The War Experience of the Japanese People by Yoshimi Yoshiaki
RRP: €33.32€25.94Grassroots Fascism profiles the Asia Pacific War (1937-1945)-the most important though least understood experience of Japan's modern history-through the lens of ordinary Japanese life. Moving deftly from the struggles of the home front to the occupied... -
A BOOK OF FIVE RINGS by Miyamoto Musashi by T L Carlyle 9781735238982
RRP: €14.28€9.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735238982Author T L CarlyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint AntellusPublisher AntellusWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 5mm -
The Most Dangerous Moment of the War: Japan'S Attack on the Indian Ocean, 1942 by John Clancy 9781612005331
€16.66'The kind of story you'd find in illustrated form in one of the 1960s boys' comics such as Warlord, or Commando. Absolutely enthralling.'Books Monthly'It is an interesting story . . . and I recommend it.'The Mariner's MirrorIn early April 1942, a... -
Mixed-Race and Modernity in Colonial India: Changing Concepts of Hybridity Across Empires Adrian Carton 9781138948334
RRP: €52.35€46.10Focusing on Portuguese, British and French colonial spaces, this book traces changing concepts of mixed-race identity in early colonial India. Starting in the sixteenth century, it discusses how the emergence of race was always shaped by affiliations... -
Banaras Reconstructed: Architecture and Sacred Space in a Hindu Holy City by Dr. Madhuri Desai
€39.03Between the late sixteenth and early twentieth centuries, Banaras, the iconic Hindu center in northern India that is often described as the oldest living city in the world, was reconstructed materially as well as imaginatively, and embellished with... -
Manchuria: A Concise History by Mark Gamsa 9780755637119
€38.41Manchuria is a historical region, which roughly corresponds to Northeast China. The Manchu people, who established the last dynasty of Imperial China (the Qing, 1644-1911) originated there, and it has been the stage of turbulent events during the... -
Familiar Strangers: A History of Muslims in Northwest China by Jonathan N. Lipman 9780295976440
RRP: €33.31€28.73Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295800554The Chinese-speaking Muslims have for centuries been an inseparable but anomalous part of Chinese society--Sinophone yet incomprehensible, local yet outsiders, normal but different. Long regarded by the... -
The Second Sino-Japanese War: A Captivating Guide to Military Conflict That Began between China and Japan, Including Events Such as the Japanese Invasion of Manchuria and the Nanjing Massacre by Captivating History 9781647484033
RRP: €23.76€15.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647484033Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm)... -
The Mortal God: Imagining the Sovereign in Colonial India by Milinda Banerjee 9781107166561
RRP: €107.10€96.90The Mortal God is a study in intellectual history which uncovers how actors in colonial India imagined various figures of human, divine, and messianic rulers to battle over the nature and locus of sovereignty. It studies British and Indian... -
Jazz: New Perspectives On The History Of Jazz By Twelve Of The World's Foremost Jazz Critics And Scholars by Nat Hentoff 9780306800023
€25.35Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Becoming Imperial Citizens: Indians in the Late-Victorian Empire by Sukanya Banerjee
RRP: €26.17€23.19In this remarkable account of imperial citizenship, Sukanya Banerjee investigates the ways that Indians formulated notions of citizenship in the British Empire from the late nineteenth century through the early twentieth. Tracing the affective, thematic,... -
History of Ancient India by Rama Shankar Tripathi 9788120800182
€25.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788120800182Author Rama Shankar TripathiFormat PaperbackPage Count 638Imprint Motilal Banarsidass PublicationsPublisher Motilal Banarsidass... -
Chinese Clothing by Mei Hua 9780521186896
RRP: €23.79€18.98Chinese clothing has undergone continuous transformations throughout history, providing a reflection of the culture in place at any given time. A wealth of archaeological findings coupled with ancient mythology, poetry and songs enable us to see the... -
The Dragon in the Land of Snows: A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947 by Tsering Shakya 9780231118149
€71.85Since 1950, Tibet has been sandwiched between the heavyweights of Asian geopolitics: Britain, absolving itself of its colonial dominion; India, finding its legs as a newly independent nation; China, seeking to simultaneously consolidate its new communist... -
The Origins of the Chinese Nation: Song China and the Forging of an East Asian World Order by Nicolas Tackett
RRP: €36.88€32.33In this major new study, Nicolas Tackett proposes that the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) witnessed both the maturation of an East Asian inter-state system and the emergence of a new worldview and sense of Chinese identity among educated elites. These... -
Eating Bitterness: New Perspectives on China's Great Leap Forward and Famine by Kimberley Ens Manning
RRP: €35.69€32.25When the Chinese Communist Party assumed power, Mao Zedong declared that "not even one person shall die of hunger." A little over a decade later, China was in the midst of the most devastating famine in modern history. Between 1957 and 1962 - the years... -
The Opium Wars: A Captivating Guide to the First and Second Opium War and Their Impact on the History of the United Kingdom and China by Captivating History 9781647489281
RRP: €27.36€19.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647489281Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 110Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm)... -
Matteo Ricci: A Jesuit in the Ming Court by Michela Fontana 9781442205871
RRP: €41.65€36.83Matteo Ricci (1552-1610), the first of the early Jesuit missionaries of the China mission, is widely considered the most outstanding cultural mediator of all time between China and the West. This engrossing and fluid book offers a thorough, knowledgeable... -
Tiananmen Moon: Inside the Chinese Student Uprising of 1989 by Philip J. Cunningham 9780742566736
RRP: €47.60€41.91The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of this book is now available. This compelling book provides a vivid firsthand account of the student demonstrations and massacre in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Uniquely placed as a Western observer drawn into... -
ASEAN's Half Century: A Political History of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations by Donald E. Weatherbee 9781442272521
RRP: €41.65€36.54This authoritative book provides a comprehensive political history of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the ten members of which are Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam... -
The Japanese Wartime Empire, 1931-1945 by Peter Duus 9780691145068
RRP: €41.65€33.74With this book the editors complete the three-volume series on modern Japanese colonialism and imperialism that began with The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945 (Princeton, 1983) and The Japanese Informal Empire in China, 1895-1937 (Princeton, 1989)...