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Missionary Discourse examines missionary writings from India and southern Africa to explore colonial discourses about race, religion, gender and culture. The book is organised around three themes: family, sickness and violence, which were key areas of...

The first book to tell the strange and fascinating story of General Zhang Xue-liang, the Chinese-Manchurian 'Young Marshall' - a man who left an indelible mark on the history of modern China, but few know his story. Unlocking the mystery of this man's...

Presenting a set of rich case-studies which demonstrate novel and productive approaches to the study of colonial knowledge, this volume covers British, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish colonial encounters in Africa, Asia, America...

Through a study of the readership of the most popular commercial daily newspaper in China during the early twentieth century, Reading Shenbao investigates ideas of nationalism, consumerism and individuality, looking at the relationship between...

Twenty-first century China is emerging from decades of war and revolution into a new era. Yet the past still haunts the present. The ideals of the Chinese Republic, which was founded almost a century ago after 2000 years of imperial rule, still resonate...

The Chinese Revolution is long in the making, an unfolding process that has spanned most of the twentieth century. This comprehensive and ready-reference guide will help students and interested readers to understand the process and the events that have...

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This comprehensive book provides a comparative analysis of religious nationalism in contemporary, globalized Asia. Exploring the nexus of religion, identity, and nationalism, Jeff Kingston assesses similarities and differences across the region, focusing...

"Peasant Pasts" is an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to writing histories of peasant politics, nationalism, and colonialism. Vinayak Chaturvedi's analysis provides an important intervention in the social and cultural history of India by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241090401Author Pokala Lakshmi NarasuFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Primary Sources, Historical CollectionsPublisher Primary Sources, Historical...

This unique book reveals the existence of an advanced civilization where none was known before, presenting an entirely new perspective on the culture and history of Tibet. In his groundbreaking study of an epic period in Tibet few people even knew...

Byzantium is more and more recognized as a vibrant culture in dialogue with neighbouring regions, political entities, and peoples. Where better to look for this kind of dynamism than in the interactions between the Byzantines and the Armenians? Warfare...

This book explores people's everyday experience of the media in Asian countries in confrontation with huge social change and transition and the need to understand this phenomenon as it intersects with the media. It argues for the centrality of the media...

This book introduces the syntactic process of auxiliary formation and applies it to the grammatical analysis of the indicative, or non-modal, auxiliary verbs of Modern Tamil. Using data from spoken and written registers gathered over several years, the...

Developments in East Asia have progressed rapidly in terms of regionalism since the 1997 crisis. The end of the Asian miracle called into question not only the capacity of regional states to meet the needs of their attendant peoples, but also challenged...

Artioles and symposia on major controversial social issues: integration and civil rights; President Clinton's recent race initiative; poverty; education; the environment; democratic participation; disability rights; corporate welfare; and others. The...

Persian civilization flourished at a continuously high level for nearly three thousand years of recorded history. This volume, in the Legacy series, is written by leading authorities in their subjects who illustrate some of the many ways in which...

The Pacific, long a source of fantasies for EuroAmerican consumption and a testing ground for the development of EuroAmerican production, is often misrepresented by the West as one-dimensional, culturally monolithic. Although the Asia/Pacific region...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955781322Author Chantelle TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint DRA PublishingPublisher DRA Publishing

Hong Kong faces a new, or renewed, set of challenges linked to the up-grading of human resources, shifts in industrial structure, and emerging market demands. The contributors examine and analyse aspects of business and management in Hong Kong.Book...

From the award-winning Producer of The Nazis a Warning from History Laurence Rees turns his gaze to the atrocities committed by Japanese soldiers in World War II. In his incisive but accessible study, Laurence confronts one of the most dramatic and...

The Middle Ages as they were lived in Eastern Europe are covered in this encyclopedia. An introduction provides an overview of the Byzantine Empire—what life was like, what people wore and ate, how families were formed and cared for, and how the...

FOR THE FIRST TIME, A BRITISH SOLDIER RIPS THE LID OFF OUR CURRENT INVOLVEMENT IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN. Does for the British military what Jarhead did for the US. Leo Docherty was a serving British soldier on the ground in Afghanistan up until his...

Military working dogs are silently winning the war against the world's deadliest insurgents; day after day saving soldiers' lives in the most dangerous country on the planet. Many have been rescue animals, neglected or mistreated by their owners before...

In this lavishly illustrated companion to his BBC TV series, Michael Wood weaves a spellbinding narrative out of the 10,000-year history of India. Home today to more than a fifth of the world's population, the subcontinent gave birth to the oldest and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780470157619Author Lee WindsorFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint John Wiley & Sons LtdPublisher John Wiley and Sons LtdWeight(grams) 716g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781240908868Author T D LFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241523909Author Frederick Arthur NealeFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library,...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788196815448Author Mack RafealFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Uniek EnterprisesPublisher Uniek EnterprisesWeight(grams) 168g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357932394Author George B BaconFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Alpha EditionPublisher Alpha EditionWeight(grams) 277g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241496913Author Alfred Frederick Pollock HarcourtFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British...

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This concise account of Taiwan's history makes a cogent, compelling argument for the right of the Taiwanese people to declare their nation independent, if they so choose. Davison's bold stand-unprecedented from a Western author-challenges the one China...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666728996Author Amos YongFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Cascade BooksPublisher Cascade BooksWeight(grams) 522g

In May 1936, Abe Sada committed the most notorious crime in twentieth-century Japan-the murder and emasculation of her lover. What made her do it? And why was she found guilty of murder yet sentenced to only six years in prison? Why have this woman and...

This is the seventh volume of the series on Indian history, From Indus to Independence: A Trek through Indian History, and provides the history of the great Vijayanagara Empire. Named in aspiration of victory—in both the spiritual and temporal...