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Royal Hue: Heritage of the Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam by Vu Hong Lien
RRP: $41.90$28.83Hue, the ancient, royal capital of Vietnam, is a city remarkable in its strive for greatness and to achieve breathtaking beauty. Despite its many dramatic historic events, from conflicts between ancient Vietnam and the now extinct kingdoms of Champa to... -
The Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humanities: An Intellectual History, 1400-1800 by Christopher S. Celenza
RRP: $79.78$64.53Christopher Celenza is one of the foremost contemporary scholars of the Renaissance. His ambitious new book focuses on the body of knowledge which we now call the humanities, charting its roots in the Italian Renaissance and exploring its development up... -
The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific by Gananath Obeyesekere
RRP: $84.00$64.97Here Gananath Obeyesekere debunks one of the most enduring myths of imperialism, civilization, and conquest: the notion that the Western civilizer is a god to savages. Using shipboard journals and logs kept by Captain James Cook and his officers,... -
Asia: A Concise History by Arthur Cotterell
RRP: $52.50$35.24From one of the world's leading historians?a comprehensive narrative of the 3,000 years that have formed Asia's people, culture, and global destiny Tracing its origins in Mesopotamia to its modern role on the global geopolitical stage, historian Arthur... -
The Making of the Modern Near East 1792-1923 by Malcolm Yapp 9780582493803
RRP: $130.18$123.90This clear, and authoritative text surveys the history of the region from the collapse of the Ottoman Empire to the present day.It contains a general regional introduction, followed by a series of country-by-country analyses, and a section which places... -
Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan by Amy Dru Stanley 9780520270909
RRP: $149.10$114.41This book traces the social history of early modern Japan's sex trade, from its beginnings in seventeenth-century cities to its apotheosis in the nineteenth-century countryside. Drawing on legal codes, diaries, town registers, petitions, and criminal... -
The Cambridge Illustrated History of China by Patricia Buckley Ebrey
RRP: $199.50$177.91The Cambridge Illustrated History of China is an illuminating account of the full sweep of Chinese civilisation - from prehistoric times to the intellectual ferment of the Warring States Period, through the rise and fall of the imperial dynasties, to the... -
Unending Capitalism: How Consumerism Negated China's Communist Revolution by Karl Gerth
RRP: $48.28$41.08What forces shaped the twentieth-century world? Capitalism and communism are usually seen as engaged in a fight-to-the-death during the Cold War. With the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party aimed to end... -
From Cultures of War to Cultures of Peace: War and Peace Museums in Japan, China and South Korea by Takashi Yoshida 9781937385439
RRP: $73.40$60.44Takashi Yoshida provides a historical analysis of war and peace museums from the late nineteenth century to the present and traces the historical development of a pacifist discourse in postwar Japan that centred on Japan’s war crimes and responsibility... -
Torajan Ricebarn by Nigel Barley 9780861590728
$38.12A study of the Torajan ricebarn, a traditional Indonesian structure where the rice crop is stored, and where the main social life of the village takes place. This paper was stimulated by the construction of a ricebarn for the Museum of Mankind at the... -
Terracotta Warriors: Guardians of Immortality by Rebecca Rice 9780995103115
RRP: $56.68$36.60This book is published to mark the exhibition at Te Papa of the remarkable third century BC funerary statues excavated from the astounding archaeological site at X'ian, China. The sculptures depicted the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of... -
Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Second series, Vol. 68: (1 April - 15 May 1961) by Madhavan K. Palat 9780199474806
RRP: $121.80$113.32The Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru is the most important and authoritative source on Nehru's life, work and thought. Given the literary abilities and singular position of Jawaharlal Nehru, these volumes can be considered a primer to politics,... -
A Short History of Asia by Colin Mason 9781137340597
$215.31The nations of Asia now make up more than half of the world's population. With increasingly affluent, educated middle classes and vigorous, innovative industries, they are more populous and powerful than ever before, and their influence on the rest of... -
Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru, Second Series, Vol 67: (15 Feb-31 Mar 1961), Second Series, Vol 67 by Professor Madhavan K. Palat 9780199471683
RRP: $109.20$102.19The Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru is the most important and authoritative source on Nehru's life, work and thought. Given the literary abilities and singular position of Jawaharlal Nehru, these volumes can be considered a primer to politics,... -
Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Second series, Vol. 69: (16 May - 30 June 1961) by Madhavan K. Palat 9780199474813
RRP: $121.80$113.32The Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru is the most important and authoritative source on Nehru's life, work and thought. Given the literary abilities and singular position of Jawaharlal Nehru, these volumes can be considered a primer to politics,... -
Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Second Series, Vol 76 (16 March - 31 May 1962) by Madhavan K. Palat 9780199489909
RRP: $94.48$87.91The Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru has established its position as the single most important, authoritative, and reliable source on Nehru's life, work, and thought. It is indispensable to the scholar, fascinating to the layperson, and at times... -
Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Second Series, Vol. 77 (1 June - 19 July 1962) by Madhavan K. Palat 9780199494767
RRP: $109.20$102.19The Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru has established its position as the single most important, authoritative, and reliable source on Nehru's life, work, and thought. It is indispensable to the scholar, fascinating to the layperson, and at times... -
Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Second Series, vol 75 (7 February -15 March 1962) by Madhavan K. Palat 9780199489015
RRP: $94.48$87.91The Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru has established its position as the single most important, authoritative, and reliable source on Nehru's life, work, and thought. It is indispensable to the scholar, fascinating to the layperson, and at times... -
Selected Works Of Jawaharlal Nehru, Second Series, Volume 65: (1 Dec-31 Dec 1960) by Professor Madhavan K Palat 9780199466993
RRP: $113.40$105.90The Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru is the most important and authoritative source on Nehru's life, work and thought. Given the literary abilities and singular position of Jawaharlal Nehru, these volumes can be considered a primer to politics,... -
Ein Handbuch zur Aprikosenblute in Bildern und Gedichten: Ein Handbuch zur Aprikosenblute in Bildern und Gedichten by Peter Weidehage 9783805003612
$155.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783805003612Author Peter WeidehageFormat HardbackPage Count 435Imprint Steyler Verlagsbuchhandlung GmbHPublisher Steyler Verlagsbuchhandlung... -
The Speaking Window: Tales from a Bloodied Timeline by Sandeep Dutt 9789391050733
RRP: $86.08$78.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789391050733Author Sandeep DuttFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Oxford University Press IndiaPublisher Oxford University Press IndiaWeight(grams) 474g -
Afghanistan Beyond the Fog of War: Persistent Failure of a Rentier State: 2018 by Michael Fredholm 9788776942519
RRP: $62.90$50.67This is the first book to scrutinize the root causes of problems today with Afghan reconstruction. It begins in 1880 with the coming to power of Emir Abdur Rahman and departure of an occupying British army. On the northern border, Russian forces were... -
Money on the Silk Road by Helen Wang 9780714118062
$190.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714118062Author Helen WangFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint British Museum PressPublisher British Museum Press -
India and the China Crisis by Steven A. Hoffmann 9780520301726
RRP: $71.40$64.83The earliest accounts of the Sino-Indian boundary dispute cast India as the victim of Chinese betrayal and expansionism, but a more favorable image of China vis-a-vis India has appeared since the 1970s. Since then, China has been portrayed as the victim... -
Anyuan: Mining China's Revolutionary Tradition by Elizabeth Perry 9780520271906
RRP: $63.00$57.52How do we explain the surprising trajectory of the Chinese Communist revolution? Why has it taken such a different route from its Russian prototype? An answer, Elizabeth Perry suggests, lies in the Chinese Communists' creative development and deployment... -
A Journey to the East: Li Gui's a New Account of a Trip Around the Globe by Li Gui 9780472113545
$197.99Li Gui's record of his epic 1876 journey marks China's first officially sanctioned eyewitness account of people and places around the world. A representative to the U.S. Centennial in Philadelphia, Li Gui went on to style himself as the first Chinese... -
History of Urban Form of India: From Beginning till 1900’s by Professor Pratyush Shankar 9780199468096
RRP: $98.68$89.52India, like many other developing countries today, is undergoing massive urbanization. The imagination of the future form of Indian cities in terms of urban planning and design is most urgent. A study of the key historical moments in the country from the... -
Discovering Sindh's Past by Michel Boivin 9780199407804
RRP: $50.38$46.33This collection of thirteen articles from the Journal of the Sind Historical Society concentrates on precolonial and colonial Sind. These articles reveal much about Sindh's past and historically showcase the region's broad socio-cultural spectrum. ... -
Great Power Clashes along the Maritime Silk Road: Lessons from History to Shape Current Strategy by Grant Frederick Rhode 9781682478660
RRP: $94.40$77.09Current concerns in maritime Eurasia are centered on rising powers China and India. By way of background to understanding the current regional great power rivalry within maritime Eurasia. This book asks what we can learn from historic Eurasian maritime... -
Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Second series, Vol. 72: (15 Oct - 30 Nov 1961) by Madhavan K. Palat 9780199481903
RRP: $73.48$70.58The Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru is the most important and authoritative source on Nehru's life, work and thought. Given the literary abilities and singular position of Jawaharlal Nehru, these volumes can be considered a primer to politics,... -
Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Second series, Vol. 61: (1 June - 31 July 1960) by Madhavan K. Palat 9780199459889
RRP: $102.88$96.60The Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru is the most important and authoritative source on Nehru's life, work and thought. Given the literary abilities and singular position of Jawaharlal Nehru, these volumes can be considered a primer to politics,... -
Critical Han Studies by Thomas S. Mullaney 9780520289758
RRP: $96.60$75.22Constituting over ninety percent of China's population, Han is not only the largest ethnonational group in that country but also one of the largest categories of human identity in world history. In this pathbreaking volume, a multidisciplinary group of... -
The Mayor of Aihara: A Japanese Villager and His Community, 1865-1925 by Simon Partner 9780520258594
RRP: $52.50$47.10Aizawa Kikutaro (1866-1963) was born into the wealthiest family in Hashimoto, a small agricultural village specializing in wheat and silk. By 1925, the village was undergoing rapid commercial development, residents were commuting to factory and office... -
The Three Faces of Chinese Power: Might, Money, and Minds by David M. Lampton 9780520254428
RRP: $63.00$47.92Clear, comprehensive, and well-balanced, this unique assessment takes the measure of what is arguably the most important geopolitical change in today's world: the growth of China's power. In the only book on the subject to be based on extensive... -
Earthquake Nation: The Cultural Politics of Japanese Seismicity, 1868-1930 by Gregory K. Clancey 9780520246072
RRP: $149.10$114.41Accelerating seismic activity in late Meiji Japan climaxed in the legendary Great Nobi Earthquake of 1891, which rocked the main island from Tokyo to Osaka, killing thousands. Ironically, the earthquake brought down many 'modern' structures built on the... -
The Muslim Secular: Parity and the Politics of India's Partition by Dr Amar Sohal 9780198887638
RRP: $174.30$158.21Concerned with the fate of the minority in the age of the nation-state, Muslim political thought in modern South Asia has often been associated with religious nationalism and the creation of Pakistan. The Muslim Secular complicates that story by... -
The Buddhakapalatantra Chapters 9 to 14 by Harunaga Isaacson 9783700173885
RRP: $212.10$154.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783700173885Author Harunaga IsaacsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 249Imprint Austrian Academy of Sciences PressPublisher Austrian Academy of Sciences... -
Madam President: The Biography of Droupadi Murmu by Sandeep Sahu 9780143459798
RRP: $29.30$22.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143459798Author Sandeep SahuFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Penguin Random House IndiaPublisher Penguin Random House India -
Fugitive of Empire: Rash Behari Bose, Japan and the Indian Independence Struggle by Joseph McQuade 9780197768280
$79.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197768280Author Joseph McQuadeFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 494g -
Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits, Vol. IV by Hugh Cortazzi 9781903350140
RRP: $283.50$247.13The continuing success of this series, highly regarded by scholars and the general reader alike, has prompted The Japan Society to commission this fourth volume, devoted as before to the lives of key people, both British and Japanese, who have made...