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Corner of a Foreign Field :: The British Cemetery at Kathmandu by Mark F. Watson Andrew R. Hall
£35.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789937624145Author Mark F. WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vajra BooksPublisher Vajra BooksWeight(grams) 801gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 170mm * 20mm -
The Crusader States and their Neighbours: A Military History, 1099-1187 by Nicholas Morton 9780198824541
£81.65The Crusader States and their Neighbours explores the military history of the Medieval Near East, piecing together the fault-lines of conflict which entangled this much-contested region. This was an area where ethnic, religious, dynastic, and commercial... -
Fear and Fortune: Spirit Worlds and Emerging Economies in the Mongolian Gold Rush by Mette M. High
RRP: £25.99£22.04Mongolia over the last decade has seen a substantial and ongoing gold rush. The widespread mining of gold looks at first glance to be a blessing for a desperately poor and largely pastoralist country where people's lives were disrupted by the end of the... -
The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea by Charles Robert Jenkins
RRP: £25.00£19.18In January of 1965, twenty-four-year-old U.S. Army sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins abandoned his post in South Korea, walked across the DMZ, and surrendered to communist North Korean soldiers standing sentry along the world's most heavily militarized... -
The Mission of Friar William of Rubruck: His Journey to the Court of the Great Khan Moengke, 1253 1255 by William of Rubruck
RRP: £18.99£15.33"William of Rubruck was a Franciscan friar who wrote the first great travel book about Asia. In 1253-55 he made the journey from the Holy Land to the court of the Great Khan Moengke at Qaraqorum in Mongolia and back again. . . . William was interested in... -
China's Cold War Science Diplomacy by Gordon Barrett
RRP: £75.00£67.74During the early decades of the Cold War, the People's Republic of China remained outside much of mainstream international science. Nevertheless, Chinese scientists found alternative channels through which to communicate and interact with counterparts... -
Religious Movements in South Asia 600-1800 by David N. Lorenzen 9780195678765
RRP: £9.99£8.52'It provides a picture, fascinating...of some of the religious movements in Indian history.' -- The book Review This book addresses a range of debates regarding religious movements in the medieval and early modern periods. Eleven key essays debate the... -
Hezbollah: Mobilisation and Power by Aurelie Daher
RRP: £30.00£26.83Forty years after its foundation, Lebanese Hezbollah remains an organization difficult to understand. An Islamist terrorist group dedicated to destroying Israel or the first Arab national Resistance to have ever defeated Tel-Aviv's troops, a patriotic... -
Cricket Country: An Indian Odyssey in the Age of Empire by Prashant Kidambi
RRP: £18.49£15.92Cricket is an Indian game accidentally invented by the English, it has famously been said. But India was represented by a cricket team long before it became a nation. Conceived by an unlikely coalition of imperial and local elites, it took twelve... -
A Continent Erupts: Decolonization, Civil War, and Massacre in Postwar Asia, 1945-1955 by Ronald H. Spector
RRP: £31.99£28.79The end of the Second World War led to the United States' emergence as a global superpower. For war-ravaged Western Europe it marked the beginning of decades of unprecedented cooperation and prosperity that one historian has labeled "the long peace". Yet... -
Silk Road: Monks, Warriors & Merchants by Luce Boulnois
RRP: £17.95£9.68To the modern reader, the Silk Road conjures up images of fabled cities and exotic lands, of long-gone empires and great conquerors. Place names such as Samarkand, Bukhara, Khotan or Chang'an continue to fascinate with the richness of their past. In this... -
The Origins of the Boxer Uprising by Joseph W. Esherick
RRP: £30.00£23.22In the summer of 1900, bands of peasant youths from the villages of north China streamed into Beijing to besiege the foreign legations, attracting the attention of the entire world. Joseph Esherick reconstructs the early history of the Boxers,... -
The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion,1590-1800 by Brett L. Walker 9780520248342
RRP: £27.00£20.63This model monograph is the first scholarly study to put the Ainu - the native people living in Ezo, the northernmost island of the Japanese archipelago - at the center of an exploration of Japanese expansion during the seventeenth and eighteenth... -
Japan: Courts and Culture by Rachel Peat
RRP: £49.95£32.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909741683Author Rachel PeatFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Royal Collection TrustPublisher Royal Collection TrustWeight(grams) 1880g -
Bright Eyes of Danger: An Account of the Anglo-Sikh Wars 1845-1849 by Bill Whitburn 9781909982215
RRP: £45.00£32.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909982215Author Bill WhitburnFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
India: The Ancient Past: A History of the Indian Subcontinent from c. 7000 BCE to CE 1200 by Burjor Avari
RRP: £43.99£40.24India: The Ancient Past provides a clear and systematic introduction to the cultural, political, economic, social and geographical history of ancient India from the time of the pre-Harappan culture nine thousand years ago up until the beginning of the... -
Genghis Khan and the Quest for God: How the World's Greatest Conqueror Gave Us Religious Freedom by Jack Weatherford 9780735221178
RRP: £24.00£17.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735221178Author Jack WeatherfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 355gDimensions(mm) 211mm *... -
Essays in Indian History: Towards a Marxist Perception by Irfan Habib 9781843310617
RRP: £70.00£66.36This volume brings together, for the first time, several of Professor Habib's essays, representing three decades of scholarship and providing an insightful interpretation of the main currents in Indian history from the standpoint of Marxist... -
Ninja by John Man
RRP: £12.99£9.09The Ninjas today are the stuff of myth and legend in comics, film and electronic games. But once they were real, the medieval equivalent of the SAS: spies, saboteurs, assassins. In their secrecy, under-cover skills and determination to survive, they were... -
Remembering the Forgotten War: The Korean War Through Literature and Art by Philip West 9780765606976
RRP: £53.99£49.09In contrast to the many books that use military, diplomatic, and historic language in analyzing the Korean War, this book takes a cultural approach that emphasizes the human dimension of the war, an approach that especially features Korean voices. There... -
The Untold History of Ramen: How Political Crisis in Japan Spawned a Global Food Craze by George Solt 9780520282353
RRP: £30.00£22.82A rich, salty, and steaming bowl of ramen noodle soup climbed its way onto the international culinary scene and, from Tokyo to New York, is now a symbol of the cultural prowess of Japanese cuisine. In this highly original account of geopolitics and... -
The Specters of Algeria by Hwang Yeo Jung
RRP: £13.99£9.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739822569Author Hwang Yeo JungFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Honford StarPublisher Honford Star -
Manual Of Standard Tibetan by Sangda Dorje
RRP: £73.00£51.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559391894Author Nicolas TournadreFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Snow Lion PublicationsPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
A Brief History of Khubilai Khan by Jonathan Clements 9781849013376
RRP: £3.99£2.91His grandfather was the bloodthirsty Mongol leader Genghis Khan, his mother a Christian princess. Groomed from childhood for a position of authority, Khubilai snatched the position of Great Khan, becoming the overlord of a Mongol federation that... -
The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia by Sheila Miyoshi Jager 9780674983397
RRP: £33.95£27.89A dramatic new telling of the dawn of modern East Asia, placing Korea at the center of a transformed world order wrought by imperial greed and devastating wars.In the nineteenth century, Russia participated in two "great games": one, well known, pitted... -
The China Journals by Hugh Trevor-Roper
RRP: £40.00£30.21These private journals, made available here for the first time, record Hugh Trevor-Roper's visit to the People's Republic of China in the autumn of 1965, shortly before the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution, and describe the controversial aftermath of... -
Korea: A History by Eugene Y. Park
RRP: £29.99£25.99While popular trends, cuisine, and long-standing political tension have made Korea familiar in some ways to a vast English-speaking world, its recorded history of some two millennia remains unfamiliar to most. Korea: A History addresses general readers,... -
Whispers in the Tall Grass by Nick Brokhausen
RRP: £25.00£15.84On his second combat tour, Nick Brokhausen served in Recon Team Habu, CCN. This unit was part of MACV-SOG (Military Assistance Command Vietnam Studies and Observations Group), or Studies and Observations Group as it was innocuously called. The small... -
Jallianwala Bagh: A Groundbreaking History of the 1919 Massacre by Dr. V.N. Datta 9780143450337
RRP: £13.99£10.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143450337Author V.N. DattaFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 220mm * 140mm * 20mm -
The Easter Offensive - Vietnam 1972 Voume 1: Volume 1: Invasion Across the DMZ by Albert Grandolini
RRP: £16.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910294079Author Albert GrandoliniFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Asia: A Concise History by Arthur Cotterell
RRP: £25.00£17.54From 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... -
In the Red: On Contemporary Chinese Culture by Mr Geremie R. Barme 9780231106153
RRP: £35.00£27.61China, Geremie R. Barme notes, has become one of the greatest writing and publishing nations on the planet, and both cultural activists and the state are embroiled in debates about the production and distribution of its cultural products. But what... -
Japanese Confucianism: A Cultural History by Kiri Paramore
RRP: £26.99£22.80For more than 1500 years, Confucianism has played a major role in shaping Japan's history - from the formation of the first Japanese states during the first millennium AD, to Japan's modernization in the nineteenth century, to World War II and its still... -
The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia: Visions of World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought by Cemil Aydin
RRP: £25.00£19.18In this rich intellectual history, Cemil Aydin challenges the notion that anti-Westernism in modern Asia is a political and religious reaction to the liberal and democratic values of the West. Nor is anti-Westernism a natural response to Western... -
Empire of Enchantment: The Story of Indian Magic by John Zubrzycki
RRP: £30.00£26.43India's association with magicians goes back thousands of years. Conjurors and illusionists dazzled the courts of Hindu maharajas and Mughal emperors. As British dominion spread over the subcontinent, such wonder-workers became synonymous with India... -
The Mongols by David Morgan 9781405135399
RRP: £32.95£30.49The revised second edition of this highly praised introduction to the Mongol Empire takes account of recent scholarship in the field. Provides an overview of the government, religion, and politics of the Mongolian Empire Considers the effects of Mongol... -
The Mongol Empire by Timothy May
RRP: £29.99£24.56This book explores the rise and establishment of the Mongol Empire under Chinggis Khan, as well as its expansion and evolution under his successors. It also examines the successor states (Ilkhanate, Chaghatayid Khanate, the Jochid Ulus (Golden Horde),... -
India by Diana L. Eck
RRP: £14.99£12.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385531924Author Diana L EckFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 624gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
India 1885-1947: The Unmaking of an Empire by Ian Copland 9780582381735
£37.43The establishment of the Indian National Congress in 1885 marked a turning point in modern South Asian history. At the time, few grasped the significance of the event, nor understood the power that its leader would come to wield. From humble beginnings,... -
Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia by Thant Myint-U
RRP: £12.99£8.56China and India have always been seperated not only by the Himalayas, but also by the impenetrable jungle and remote areas that once stretched across Burma. Now this last great frontier will likely vanish - forests cut down, dirt roads replaced by...