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This book traces the evolution of post-Cold War relations between China and the US, focusing on their often conflicting efforts to achieve economic growth, military prowess and technological sophistication. Adopting a dual approach with equal emphasis on...

Chou and Ching examine the processes of schooling in Taiwan amidst social, cultural, economic, and political conflict resulting from local and global dilemmas. Collectively, these issues offer a panoramic and in-depth glimpse from the past to the future...

The 2001 invasion of Afghanistan by United States and coalition forces was followed by a flood of aid and development dollars and "experts" representing well over two thousand organisations-each with separate policy initiatives, geopolitical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789812307583Author Hussin MutalibFormat HardbackPage Count 94Imprint Institute of Southeast Asian StudiesPublisher Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

Immediately following Pearl Harbor, Japan wrenched the meagerly defended Netherlands East Indies, now known as Indonesia, from the hands of its Dutch colonialists. Suddenly, one of the world's largest nations was at the service of the Japanese Imperial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783847115755Author Joanna DyduchFormat HardbackPage Count 271Imprint V&R UnipressPublisher V&R UnipressWeight(grams) 572g

An account of the 1929 uprising in Kabul. During the occupation Fayz Muhammad, a Kabul resident and historian, kept a detailed journal, which forms the basis of this book. It covers the occupiers' extortion, confiscation, and the resulting hardships, as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780824820374Author Gregory SmitsFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint University of Hawai'i PressPublisher University of Hawai'i PressWeight(grams) 500g

On Sunday morning, July 9, 1950, the U.S. 23rd Infantry Regiment of the 2nd Infantry Division received orders to deploy to Korea, where the North Koreans had crossed the 38th Parallel just two weeks earlier. In service in various forms since 1861, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.ReviewsThe array of essays by prominent, established scholars provides insights into the ways in which the breakup of traditional forms of tribal authority have led to the...

U.S. immigration and naturalization laws tracked shifting power dynamics in the Pacific as the United States emerged as a major world power during World War II and the Cold War. Much is known about America's long history of Asian immigrant exclusion...

This important work examines religion in its sociopolitical contexts, as well as issues of leadership, conversion, feudal regimes, Japan's dominant religious societies, and the impact of religious developments on Japan's future, both as a nation and as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorWm. Theodore de Bary (1919-2017) was John Mitchell Mason Professor Emeritus and provost emeritus of Columbia University. His many books include Waiting for the...

This book focuses primarily on the vents and consequences that followed the July 1997 collapse of the Thai bhat. The contributions reflect the range in approach and focus of scholarship in the region. In the first section, Gareth Evans presents a...

US and international officials are hopeful that Afghanistan is emerging from over 22 years of warfare and instability, although substantial risk to Afghan stability remains. This new book examines Afghanistan's historical past and the future of a...

'Robert Twigger is not so much a travel writer as a thrill-seeking philosopher' Esquire The Himalayas beckon and we go ...Some to make real journeys and others to make imaginary ones. These mountains, home to Buddhists, Bonpos, Jains, Muslims, Hindus,...

The 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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871402271Author Alex CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Liveright Publishing CorporationPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 476g

The forty-year love affair between Rachel and Andrew Jackson parallels a tumultuous period in American history. During this time, the fledgling United States more than doubled in size, and political power moved closer to true democracy for white men...

Combining evocative historical description and cogent analysis, Song Full of Tears is a chronicle of nine hundred years of life in southeast China. It reveals the workings of Chinese society in times of environmental and military crises, how the Chinese...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759669451Author Charles N. C. ShiFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 152g

For the European and later the American colonial soldier, the civil administrator and his clerk, the merchant, the missionary, and the families who followed them east of Suez, daily life was less a matter of advancing the glory of God or empire than a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615846200Author Steven M JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 430Imprint Steven M. JohnsonPublisher Steven M. JohnsonWeight(grams) 581gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375758188Author Marco PoloFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

The author's wide travel in the Orient and her study of all available resources have combined to produce the three fascinating stories told here-the lives of three oriental geniuses: Shah Jahan, artist-emperor of India; Chien Lung, Manchu emperor of...

Realizing that a knowledge of the Scythians and the Huns is necessary for an adequate understanding of the countries of eastern Europe and the Near East, McGovern has written a comprehensive survey of all that is known--racial, social, and cultural as...

Fletcher explains how three writers--Ryu Shintaro, Royama Masamichi, and Miki Kiyoshi--who were supporters of democratic socialism became ideologues for the East Asian bloc ideal that rationalized Japan's dominance of Asia after 1937, and he demonstrates...

Adas explores the relationship between millenarianism and violent protest by focusing on five case studies representing a wide range of social, political, and economic systems. The rebellions examined are: Netherlands East Indies (1825-30), New Zealand...

Originally published in 1966, this edition of Elizabeth E. Bacon's classic work of history and ethnography includes an extensive introduction by Michael M. J. Fischer that surveys developments in our knowledge of Central Asia in the fifteen years since...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873519601Author Paul HillmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.Publisher Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S...

This pathbreaking study provides the first comprehensive examination of India-China interactions in the broader contexts of Asian and world history. By focusing on material exchanges, transmissions of knowledge and technologies, networks of exchange...

The Last Siamese: Heroes in War and Peace tells the life stories of 12 exceptional characters from Thailand or Siam between the 1900s and 1960s. Engaging and rich in detail, they are tales full of adventure, courage and adversity, offering lessons in...

Polygamy emerged as a political issue in Indonesia following the 1998 reformation that ushered in a period of social change. This period has been characterized by challenges to established institutions and values, particularly from diverse social groups...

Tutu (Tithoes) was a popular god in the Ptolemaic and Roman periods of Egyptian history, with his origins in the earlier Egyptian religious tradition. The god provided protection against demons, and his appearance as a striding sphinx was often combined...

St. Sabas (439-532 CE), was one of the principal leaders of Palestinian monasticism, that had flourished in the sixth century in the desert of Jerusalem. As an abbot he was the first in Palestine to formulate a monastic rule in writing, and his activity...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788376382579Author Ewa TrojnarFormat HardbackPage Count 157Imprint ArcheobooksPublisher ArcheobooksWeight(grams) 354g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788195996919Author Vaibhav PurandareFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Juggernaut PublicationPublisher Juggernaut PublicationDimensions(mm) 230mm * 150mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783848738526Author Ibrahim Can SezginFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Nomos VerlagsgesellschaftPublisher Nomos VerlagsgesellschaftWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783700172734Author Cathy CantwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 375Imprint Austrian Academy of Sciences PressPublisher Austrian Academy of Sciences...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857284099Author Shakuntala BanajiFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 590g