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Routledge Handbook of Contemporary North Korea by Adrian Buzo
RRP: $54.17$47.41The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary North Korea presents a comprehensive picture of contemporary North Korea, placed in historical context and set against the overlapping fields of politics, economy, culture, society and foreign relations. Spanning a... -
A People`s History of India 14 - Economy and Society of India during the Period of the Delhi Sultanate, c. 1200 to c. 1500 by Irfan Habib
RRP: $18.05$14.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789382381914Author Irfan HabibFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika BooksWeight(grams) 382gDimensions(mm) 251mm * 165mm * 14mm -
Western Queers in China: Flight to the Land of Oz by D. E. Mungello 9781442215566
RRP: $100.62$88.34This unique work examines the role played by sexuality in the historical encounter between China and the West. Distinguished historian D. E. Mungello focuses especially on Western homosexuals who saw China as a place of escape from the homophobia of... -
Vietnam 1946: How the War Began by Stein Tonnesson 9780520269934
RRP: $38.70$30.04Based on multiarchival research conducted over almost three decades, this landmark account tells how a few men set off a war that would lead to tragedy for millions. Stein Tonnesson was one of the first historians to delve into scores of secret French,... -
Representing Calcutta: Modernity, Nationalism and the Colonial Uncanny by Swati Chattopadhyay
RRP: $56.75$50.10Representing Calcutta: Modernity, Nationalism, and the Colonial Uncanny is a spatial history of colonial Calcutta, addressing the question of modernity that haunts our perception of Calcutta. The book responds to two interrelated concerns about the city... -
Constructing International Relations: The Next Generation: The Next Generation Karin M. Fierke 9780765607393
RRP: $49.01$43.06The constructivist approach is the most important new school in the field of postcold war international relations. Constructivists assume that interstate and interorganizational relations are always at some level linguistic contexts. Thus they bridge IR... -
When Asia Was the World by Stewart Gordon 9780300126365
RRP: $32.25$31.40While European intellectual, cultural, and commercial life stagnated during the early medieval period, Asia flourished as the wellspring of science, philosophy, and religion. Linked together by a web of religious, commercial, and intellectual... -
The City in Time: Contemporary Art and Urban Form in Vietnam and Cambodia by Pamela N. Corey
RRP: $79.98$69.09Illuminates how the city has shaped contemporary artistic practice in Southeast AsiaIn The City in Time, Pamela N. Corey provides new ways of understanding contemporary artistic practices in a region that continues to linger in international perceptions... -
Unearthing the Nation: Modern Geology and Nationalism in Republican China by Grace Yen Shen
RRP: $54.18$52.64Questions of national identity have long dominated China's political, social, and cultural horizons. So in the early 1900s, when diverse groups in China began to covet foreign science in the name of new technology and modernization, questions of... -
The Babri Masjid Question, 1528-2003 - `A Matter of National Honour` by A. G. Noorani
RRP: $45.15$36.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789382381457Author A. G. NooraniFormat PaperbackPage Count 468Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika BooksWeight(grams) 744gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 172mm * 25mm -
A History of Early Modern Southeast Asia, 1400-1830 by Barbara Watson Andaya
RRP: $47.72$42.63Written by two experienced teachers with a long history of research, this textbook provides students with a detailed overview of developments in early modern Southeast Asia, when the region became tightly integrated into the world economy because of... -
Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese History by Sven Saaler 9780367581053
RRP: $56.75$50.10The Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese History is a concise overview of modern Japanese history from the middle of the nineteenth century until the end of the twentieth century. Written by a group of international historians, each an authority in his... -
The Last Emperors: A Social History of Qing Imperial Institutions by Professor Evelyn Sakakida Rawski
RRP: $39.99$31.51The Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) was the last and arguably the greatest of the conquest dynasties to rule China. Its rulers, Manchus from the north, held power for three centuries despite major cultural and ideological differences with the Han majority. In... -
Transforming the Borderland: Commerce, Migration, and Colonization in Qing Inner Mongolia by Yi Wang 9781538146071
RRP: $125.13$109.96This groundbreaking book analyzes the dramatic impact of Han Chinese migration into Inner Mongolia during the Qing era. In the first detailed history in English, Yi Wang explores how processes of commercial expansion, land reclamation, and Catholic... -
Red Legacies in China: Cultural Afterlives of the Communist Revolution by Jie Li
RRP: $43.80$35.87What has contemporary China inherited from its revolutionary past? How do the realities and memories, aesthetics and practices of the Mao era still reverberate in the post-Mao cultural landscape? The essays in this volume propose red legacies as a new... -
Forests Are Gold: Trees, People, and Environmental Rule in Vietnam by Pamela D. McElwee
RRP: $36.11$31.14Forests Are Gold examines the management of Vietnam's forests in the tumultuous twentieth century-from French colonialism to the recent transition to market-oriented economics-as the country united, prospered, and transformed people and landscapes... -
Human Bullets: A Soldier's Story of the Russo-Japanese War by Tadayoshi Sakurai
$20.12The impact of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5 was incalculable. It was the first victory by an Asian power over a European one since the Mongol invasions of the thirteenth century. Japanese victory was ascribed to the "spirit" of the Japanese people,... -
Ask A North Korean: Defectors Talk About Their Lives Inside the World's Most Secretive Nation by D. Tudor 9780804849333
RRP: $21.92$17.38The weekly column Ask a North Korean, published by NK News, invites readers from around the world to pose questions to North Korean defectors. By way of these provocative interviews the North Koreans themselves provide authentic firsthand testimonies... -
A History of the Early Korean Kingdom of Paekche, Together with an Annotated Translation of the Paekche Annals of the Samguk Sagi by Jonathan W. Best 9780674019577
RRP: $65.73$53.25This volume presents two histories of the early Korean kingdom of Paekche (trad. 18 BCE-660 CE). The first, written by Jonathan Best, is based largely on primary sources, both written and archaeological. This initial history of Paekche serves, in part,... -
Genealogy and Status: Hereditary Office Holding and Kinship in North China under Mongol Rule by Tomoyasu Iiyama
RRP: $65.73$52.74By shedding light on a long-forgotten epigraphic genre that flourished in North China during the Mongol Empire, or Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), Genealogy and Status explores the ways the conquered Chinese people understood and represented the alien Mongol... -
Sacred Mountains of Northern Thailand: And Their Legends by Donald K. Swearer
RRP: $20.63$18.37The mountains of northern Thailand constitute part of northern Thai identity. They inspire fear and awe, respect and love, curiosity and creative imagination. They define both the physical and mental landscape of northern Thailand.Drawing on the... -
Arming the Chinese: The Western Armaments Trade in Warlord China, 1920-28, Second Edition by Anthony B. Chan
RRP: $36.11$31.14The existence of warlords and warlordism is not a post-9/ll phenomenon. The international arms trade has a long history, and includes the sale of foreign weapons to Chinese warlords after the First World War.First published in 1982, this book remains the... -
The Imperial Network in Ancient China: The Foundation of Sinitic Empire in Southern East Asia by Maxim Korolkov 9780367654290
RRP: $51.59$45.23This book examines the emergence of imperial state in East Asia during the period ca. 400 BCE-200 CE as a network-based process, showing how the geography of early interregional contacts south of the Yangzi River informed the directions of Sinitic state... -
The Birth of Japanese Historiography by John R. Bentley 9780367647629
RRP: $51.59$45.23As the first book in English on the origins of Japanese historiography, using both archaeological and textual data, this book examines the connection between ancient Japan and the Korean kingdom of Paekche and how tutors from the kingdom of Paekche... -
The Politics of Self-Expression: The Urdu Middleclass Milieu in Mid-Twentieth Century India and Pakistan by Markus Daechsel 9780415544467
RRP: $12.89$11.86The 1930s to 1950s witnessed the rise and dominance of a political culture across much of North India which combined unprecedented levels of mobilization and organization with an effective de-politicization of politics. On the one hand obsessed with... -
Red Brotherhood at War: Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos Since 1975 by Grant Evans 9780860915010
RRP: $28.37$21.18The most comprehensive account of events since 1975 in Indochina.Book InformationISBN 9780860915010Author Grant EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Verso BooksPublisher Verso BooksWeight(grams) 509g -
Viceroys: The Creation of the British by Christopher Lee
RRP: $21.92$7.61Viceroys is the story of the British aristocracy sent to govern India during the reigns of five British monarchs. It is also the story of how the modern British identity was established. British history from the Hundred Years War onwards gives an... -
Russian Empire: Space, People, Power, 1700-1930 by Jane Burbank
RRP: $32.24$29.42Russian Empire offers new perspectives on the strategies of imperial rule pursued by rulers, officials, scholars, and subjects of the Russian empire. An international team of scholars explores the connections between Russia's expansion over vast... -
Mencius by Mencius 9780231122054
RRP: $36.12$28.12Known throughout East Asia as Mengzi, or "Master Meng," Mencius (391-308 B.C.E.) was a Chinese philosopher of the late Zhou dynasty, an instrumental figure in the spread of the Confucian tradition, and a brilliant illuminator of its ideas. Mencius was... -
Climate Change and the Art of Devotion: Geoaesthetics in the Land of Krishna, 1550-1850 by Sugata Ray
RRP: $79.98$70.38In the enchanted world of Braj, the primary pilgrimage center in north India for worshippers of Krishna, each stone, river, and tree is considered sacred. In Climate Change and the Art of Devotion, Sugata Ray shows how this place-centered theology... -
Imperial Muslims: Islam, Community and Authority in the Indian Ocean, 1839-1937 by Scott Reese
RRP: $30.95$28.63Explores the social consequences of Britain's creation of an Indian Ocean empire that brought millions of Muslim subjects under a single political umbrella for the first time in the modern era.Book InformationISBN 9781474452762Author Scott ReeseFormat... -
The Koreas: The Birth of Two Nations Divided by Theodore Jun Yoo
RRP: $29.67$23.35What history, pop culture, and diaspora can teach us about North and South Korea today.Korea is one of the last divided countries in the world. Twins born of the Cold War, one is vilified as an isolated, impoverished, time-warped state with an abysmal... -
The New Global Politics of the Asia-Pacific: Conflict and Cooperation in the Asian Century Michael K. Connors (La Trobe University, AUS) 9781138647022
RRP: $51.59$45.23Now in its new and fully updated third edition, The New Global Politics of the Asia Pacific continues to provide a compelling analysis of a region undergoing dramatic changes. Based on new research and offering fresh interpretation, this edition... -
Chinese Junks on the Pacific: Views from a Different Deck by Hans Konrad Van Tilburg 9780813049212
RRP: $32.19$25.36From a Western perspective, junks were among the most mysterious vessels ever to sail the open seas. Offering more than just history, Chinese Junks on the Pacific focuses on ten ships, such as the Whang Ho, Ning Po, and Amoy, that sailed to the United... -
Banishment and Belonging: Exile and Diaspora in Sarandib, Lanka and Ceylon by Ronit Ricci 9781108727242
RRP: $32.24$27.32Lanka, Ceylon, Sarandib: merely three disparate names for a single island? Perhaps. Yet the three diverge in the historical echoes, literary cultures, maps and memories they evoke. Names that have intersected and overlapped - in a treatise, a poem, a... -
The Gender of Caste: Representing Dalits in Print by Charu Gupta
$40.89Caste and gender are complex markers of difference that have traditionally been addressed in isolation from each other, with a presumptive maleness present in most studies of Dalits ("untouchables") and a presumptive upper-casteness in many feminist... -
High-Tech Housewives: Indian IT Workers, Gendered Labor, and Transmigration by Amy Bhatt 9780295743554
RRP: $36.11$31.14Tech companies such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft promote the free flow of data worldwide, while relying on foreign temporary IT workers to build, deliver, and support their products. However, even as IT companies use technology and commerce to... -
Revolutionary Nativism: Fascism and Culture in China, 1925-1937 by Maggie Clinton
RRP: $28.37$24.76In Revolutionary Nativism Maggie Clinton traces the history and cultural politics of fascist organizations that operated under the umbrella of the Chinese Nationalist Party (GMD) during the 1920s and 1930s. Clinton argues that fascism was not imported to... -
Muslims against the Muslim League: Critiques of the Idea of Pakistan by Ali Usman Qasmi
RRP: $123.83$111.88The popularity of the Muslim League and its idea of Pakistan has been measured in terms of its success in achieving the goal of a sovereign state in the Muslim majority regions of North West and North East India. It led to an oversight of Muslim leaders... -
Sir Robert and Sir William-Two Europeans in India by Elizabeth Hamilton 9780199457465
RRP: $72.24$61.82The stiff upper lip. Steely eyes. A cold heart. This has been the picture of the English imperialist carried through the ages in popular imagination. Elizabeth Hamilton brings forth an alternative portrayal in her book, The Feringhees. Of a quiet people,...