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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313269653Author V. A. RiasanovskyFormat HardbackPage Count 310Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

The first work to chronicle the history of Vietnam beginning in the legendary past-a memory that is so significant to the Vietnamese identity and belief system. Written by a native, this history portrays the Sino-Viet interdependence that lasted for...

A major historical study of the global arms trade, revolving around the transfer of small arms from metropolitan Europe to the turbulent frontiers of Indian Ocean societies during the 'long' nineteenth century (c.1780-1914).Book InformationISBN...

Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313235283Author Miles M. JacksonFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791437223Author Choong Soon KimFormat PaperbackPage Count 237Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812992694Author Karl Taro GreenfeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Villard BooksPublisher Villard BooksWeight(grams) 404g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333432648Author Mark L. UrbanFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave Macmillan

The book offers a clear, authoritative and readable guide to the modern history of Afghanistan. This remote land made up of many tribes and ethnic peoples on the borders of Central Asia became a focus of Superpower rivalry and international intrigue...

An important contribution to the reference literature on China, this historical dictionary covers the entire revolutionary period in China. Although existing biographical dictionaries focus on the twentieth century, the Chinese revolutionary movements...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313269691Author R. H. TawneyFormat HardbackPage Count 257Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

This book analyses the changing context and conditions of production and livelihood amongst Southeast Asia's peasants since the beginning of the nineteenth century. It argues that with demographic growth and the nineteenth century development of great...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313269813Author Shinichi FujiiFormat HardbackPage Count 415Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

'...this study of the Korean War...is a noteworthy addition to the literature of this conflict. A sometime brilliant and consistently disturbing work.' D.Clayton James, Mississippi State University '...MacDonald's powerful and richly detailed account of...

In 1945, Britain emerged as one of the 'Big Three' victors of the Second World War. Most people, in Britain and elsewhere, seem to have assumed that the British Empire would endure for a very long time to come. Yet within twenty years British power and...

The imperial warfare of the period 1770-1830, including the American wars of independence and the Napoleonic wars, affected every continent. Covering southern India, the Caribbean, North and South America, and southern Africa, this volume explores the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313235955Author G. B. EndacottFormat HardbackPage Count 263Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

In this remarkable book, Vera Schwarcz explores the meanings of cultural memory within the two longest surviving civilizations on earth. The author of previous books that the New York Times Book Review called "moving" and Jonathan Spence termed...

Chatterjee analyzes how writing over the period of a century justified and was affected by the introduction and extension of British domination of India, demonstrating the link between written representations and the ideological, economic and political...

'... a complex history told with consummate clarity, compassion and poignancy'- A.M.Rafferty, Department of Nursing and Midwifery Studies, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham This book explores the establishment of nursing as a profession for white,...

This book tells the story of French interaction with Vietnam and the neighboring region, which began with the French seizure of Cochin-China and Tonking in the 19th century under Emperor Tu Duc and ended with their humiliating defeat at Dien Bien Phu in...

In 1871-1882 fifty Americans, along with other foreign experts, were employed by the Japanese government to develop Japan's northern frontier, Hokkaido. Their work covered a wide scope of activities, from introducing Western agriculture and industry,...

The Meiji Restoration of 1868 is one of the most astonishing political events of the modern era, yet it doesn't fit easily with Western precedents of mass mobilization and social transformation. This book challenges some of the preconceptions that have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791441121Author Mark CsikszentmihalyiFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

I am more American than Korean in my mind, writes K. Connie Kang, "but am more Korean than American in my soul. As for my heart, it is split in half."Book InformationISBN 9780738208695Author K.Connie KangFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Da...

Although many books have explored Mao's posthumous legacy, none has scrutinized the massive worship that was fostered around him during the Cultural Revolution. This book is the first to do so. By analyzing secret archival documents, Daniel Leese traces...

British knowledge about China changed fundamentally in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Rather than treating these changes in British understanding as if Anglo-Sino relations were purely bilateral, this study looks at how British imperial...

An in-depth and comprehensive account of the complex history of Japanese modernism from the mid-19th century 'opening to the West' until the 21st century globalized world of 'postmodernism.' Its concept of modernism encompasses not just the aesthetic...

The question of the reunification of China has been haunting both sides of the Taiwan Strait since the departure of the Kuomintang from mainland China to Taiwan in 1949. This in-depth study examines the policies of Beijing and Taipei toward reunification...

This book provides a fresh interpretation of how Chinese civilization was created and transformed in the process of its early formation (1766-221 BC). It describes the principal features of that civilization which had a profound impact on the later...

Dramatic innovations in modern Japan include a mass army, overseas empire, and constitutional polity. This is the first book to link these changes in the Meiji era (1868-1912). It focuses on the life of General Katsura Taro, one of the architects of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791428986Author Sophia DelzaFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791422243Author Joel MarksFormat PaperbackPage Count 321Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791426586Author Feng ChenFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791433782Author Edward L. ShaughnessyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

This book makes available to scholars for the first time transcriptions of 313 clay tablets preserved in the Yale Babylonian Collection. The tablets date from the reign of Nabonidus, the last king of Babylon, who presided over the destiny of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887062988Author Robert N. MinorFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

This text provides a thorough examination of the history of Myanmar from Neolithic times to the present. Myanmar has experienced a seemingly endless series of conquerors, dating from prehistoric times through the reign of Kublai Khan's Mongol forces...

A unique study of how a deeply religious country like India acquired the laws and policies of a secular state, highlighting the contradictory effects of British imperial policies, the complex role played by Indian Christians, and how this highly divided...

This book traverses the Indian Ocean in the period when the British held sway over the major oceanic waters of the world. In reviving the history of the Andamans as an important imperial prize, it offers a fresh perspective on the history of British...

The transformation in Chinese social theory in the twentieth century placed the rural-urban divide at the centre of individual identity. In 1500, such distinctions were insignificant and it was the emergence of political reforms in the early 1920s and...