General

In this highly readable and engaging work, Linda Walton presents a dynamic survey of China's history from the tenth through the mid-fourteenth centuries from the founding of the Song dynasty through the Mongol conquest when Song China became part of the...

Sarah Dauncey offers the first comprehensive exploration of disability and citizenship in Chinese society and culture from 1949 to the present. Through the analysis of a wide variety of Chinese sources, from film and documentary to literature and life...

Lasting from 1979 to 2015, China's One Child Policy is often remembered as one of the most ambitious social engineering projects to date and considered emblematic of global efforts to regulate population growth during the twentieth century. Drawing on a...

China's Civil War is the first book of its kind to offer a social history in English of the Civil War in 1945-9 that brought the Chinese Communist Party to power. Integrating history and memory, it surveys a period of intense upheaval and chaos to show...

Why did the past matter so greatly in ancient China? How did it matter and to whom? This is an innovative study of how the past was implicated in the long transition of power in early China, as embodied by the decline of the late Bronze Age aristocracy...

The Song dynasty (960-1279) has been characterized by its pre-eminent civil culture and military weakness. This groundbreaking work demonstrates that the civil dominance of the eleventh century was the product of a half-century of continuous warfare and...

It was the trial of a century in colonial Hong Kong when, in 1931–33, Ho Chi Minh - the future President of Vietnam - faced down deportation to French-controlled territory with a death sentence dangling over him. Thanks to his appeal to English common...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241065454Author James AllanFormat PaperbackImprint Primary Sources, Historical CollectionsPublisher Primary Sources, Historical CollectionsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241056360Author AnonymousFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Primary Sources, Historical CollectionsPublisher Primary Sources, Historical...

Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.

This book deals with the representation of the Partition of India - the experience of trauma and violence - through fiction, literary motifs and narratives, and shows that in examining the nature of such testimony through history, cultural memory has a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241108618Author F LabrosseFormat PaperbackImprint Primary Sources, Historical CollectionsPublisher Primary Sources, Historical CollectionsWeight(grams)...

Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241059439Author Board of Commissioners for Foreign MissiFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Primary Sources, Historical CollectionsPublisher Primary...

David Rudner's richly detailed ethnographic and historical analysis of a South Indian merchant-banking caste provides the first comprehensive analysis of the interdependence among Indian business practice, social organization, and religion. Exploring...

Kapor argues that explanations of international relations in Asia in the post-Second World War period have relied too much on the Cold War as a key explanatory factor, and have not given enough emphasis to the useful concepts of 'regional power...

In Turbulent Streams: An Environmental History of Japan’s Rivers, 1600–1930, Roderick I. Wilson describes how the rivers of Japan are both hydrologically and historically dynamic. Today, these waterways are slowed, channeled, diverted, and dammed by a...

Put in the wider context of British imperial and diplomatic aims in 1941-1945, the book clarifies the importance of Vietnam to Britain's regional objectives in Southeast Asia; concluding that Churchill was willing to sacrifice French colonial interests...

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...

To what extent, and precisely how, are nationalism and patriotism transnational processes? Youth Mobilization in Vichy Indochina and Its Legacies analyzes the causes and consequences of state-sponsored patriotic youth associations during World War II in...

This is the scandalous story of how the Maasai people of Kenya lost the best part of their land to the British in the 1900s. Drawing upon unique oral testimony and extensive archival research, Hughes describes the intrigues surrounding two enforced moves...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241115098Author Harry Charles LukachFormat PaperbackImprint Primary Sources, Historical CollectionsPublisher Primary Sources, Historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241114886Author Professor Arthur Henderson SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 508Imprint Primary Sources, Historical CollectionsPublisher Primary Sources,...

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China is located on the southeastern coast of China, and the Macao SAR can be found off of China's southern coast. Both regions have recently been released from European colonial...

This collection examines the cultural and intellectual dimensions of war and its resolution between Han Chinese and the various ethnically dissimilar peoples surrounding them during the crucial 'middle period' of Chinese history.Book InformationISBN...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783805005418Author Chen ZhiFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Steyler Verlagsbuchhandlung GmbHPublisher Steyler Verlagsbuchhandlung GmbHWeight(grams) 658g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781240928552Author AnonymousFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print...

Is Bangladesh becoming a Taliban state? Talibanization has become an international fear in our post-9/11 era, and attention has begun to focus on Bangladesh in light of the growing strength of militant groups supposedly aligned with Al Quaeda, the...

Approximately 2.5 million men and women have deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan in the service of the U.S. War on Terror. Marian Eide and Michael Gibler have collected and compiled personal combat accounts from some of these war veterans. In modern warfare...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241056308Author Tsunejiro MiyaokaFormat PaperbackImprint Primary Sources, Historical CollectionsPublisher Primary Sources, Historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241113513Author P H Oakley WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint Primary Sources, Historical CollectionsPublisher Primary Sources, Historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241113216Author Shirley BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 476Imprint Primary Sources, Historical CollectionsPublisher Primary Sources, Historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241113162Author Bain R NisbetFormat PaperbackPage Count 484Imprint Primary Sources, Historical CollectionsPublisher Primary Sources, Historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241106416Author John David ReesFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint Primary Sources, Historical CollectionsPublisher Primary Sources, Historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241104931Author Reginald John FarrerFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint Primary Sources, Historical CollectionsPublisher Primary Sources, Historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241104252Author Lewis Gaston LearyFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Primary Sources, Historical CollectionsPublisher Primary Sources, Historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241100339Author Charles LoweFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint Primary Sources, Historical CollectionsPublisher Primary Sources, Historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241096809Author Aleksei Nikolaevich KuropatkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Primary Sources, Historical CollectionsPublisher Primary Sources,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241095949Author Jane Rowbotham EdkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Primary Sources, Historical CollectionsPublisher Primary Sources, Historical...