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British Business in Asia since 1860 by R. P. T. Davenport-Hines 9780521335270
RRP: £90.00£72.57This 1989 book examines the experience of British business in Asia since 1860. Following a wide-ranging introduction by the editors, there are essays by leading specialist historians on British business in Iran, India, Thailand, Malaysia, China, Russian... -
Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society: Bahia, 1550-1835 by Stuart B. Schwartz 9780521313995
RRP: £37.99£32.97This study examines the history of the sugar economy and the peculiar development of plantation society over a three hundred year period in Bahia, a major sugar plantation zone and an important terminus of the Atlantic slave trade. Drawing on little-used... -
West Indian Slavery and British Abolition, 1783-1807 by David Beck Ryden 9780521148047
RRP: £44.99£38.14This book challenges conventional wisdom regarding the political and economic motivations behind the final decision to abolish the British slave trade in 1807. Recent historians believe that this first blow against slavery was the result of social... -
Sacred Space in Early Modern Europe by Will Coster 9780521203197
RRP: £44.99£38.54The medieval landscape was marked by many sacred sites - churches and chapels, pilgrimage sites, holy wells - places where the spiritual and temporal worlds coincided. Although Max Weber argued that the Reformation brought about the 'disenchantment of... -
Kingship and Political Practice in Colonial India by Pamela G. Price 9780521052290
RRP: £30.99£25.45Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Petitions in Social History by Prof Dr. Lex Heerma van Voss 9780521013222
RRP: £22.99£20.66This book looks at petitions over the last five centuries to reconstruct the lives and opinions of 'humble' petitioners. Since Pharaonic times, governments have allowed their subjects to voice opinions in the form of petitions, which have demanded a... -
The Kingdom of Quito, 1690-1830: The State and Regional Development by Kenneth J. Andrien 9780521894487
RRP: £33.99£28.38Spanish colonialism exacted a high price from its subjects, promoting economic dependency as the accompaniment of a more vital, diversified economy based on a mix of industry and agriculture. The result was a legacy of underdevelopment, domestic social... -
The City and Education in Four Nations by Ronald K. Goodenow 9780521892919
RRP: £38.99£32.28Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Fabrication of Empire: The British and the Uganda Kingdoms, 1890-1902 by D. A. Low 9780521843515
RRP: £105.00£82.41During the 1890s, the Scramble for Africa created the new country of Uganda. This inland territory carved out by British agents first encompassed some 20-30 African kingdoms. In his magisterial study, Anthony Low examines how and why the British were... -
Sacred Space in Early Modern Europe by Will Coster 9780521824873
RRP: £105.00£82.41The medieval landscape was marked by many sacred sites - churches and chapels, pilgrimage sites, holy wells - places where the spiritual and temporal worlds coincided. Although Max Weber argued that the Reformation brought about the 'disenchantment of... -
Reforming the Tsar's Army: Military Innovation in Imperial Russia from Peter the Great to the Revolution by David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye 9780521819886
RRP: £70.00£61.97This volume examines how Imperial Russia's armed forces sought to adapt to the challenges of modern warfare. Russian rulers always understood the need to maintain an army and navy capable of preserving the empire's great power status. Yet they inevitably... -
Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England: A Study in International Trade and Economic Development by Joseph E. Inikori 9780521811934
RRP: £125.00£103.67Drawing on classical development theory and recent theoretical advances on the connection between expanding markets and technological developments, this book shows the critical role of expanding Atlantic commerce in the successful completion of England's... -
The Early Modern Atlantic Economy by John J. McCusker 9780521782494
RRP: £105.00£82.41This book throws new light on the interlocking commercial relationships of the Atlantic trading world during the centuries ending with the American and French Revolutions. Grouped under four themes - the role of merchants and their connections; the... -
Between Revolution and the Ballot Box: The Origins of the Argentine Radical Party in the 1890s by Paula Alonso 9780521771856
RRP: £98.99£87.91Founded in 1891, the Union Civica Radical, generally known as the Radical Party, is the oldest national political party in Argentina. As a central component of Argentina's political history, the Radical Party has received much attention from historians... -
Environment, Power, and Injustice: A South African History by Nancy J. Jacobs 9780521811910
RRP: £90.00£73.15Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Andres Bello: Scholarship and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Latin America by Ivan Jaksic 9780521791953
RRP: £90.00£72.17This book-length intellectual biography of Andres Bello, first published in 2001, is the first to appear in English. Bello, the most important intellectual of nineteenth-century Latin America, made enduring contributions to the fields of international... -
Chinese Professionals and the Republican State: The Rise of Professional Associations in Shanghai, 1912-1937 by Xiaoqun Xu 9780521780711
RRP: £90.00£77.49Xiaoqun Xu makes a compelling and original contribution to the study of China's modernization with this book on the rise of professional associations in Republican China in their birthplace of Shanghai, and of their political and socio-cultural milieu... -
Slavery and the Demographic and Economic History of Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1720-1888 by Laird W. Bergad 9780521652667
RRP: £110.00£98.15Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Commerce and Economic Change in West Africa: The Palm Oil Trade in the Nineteenth Century by Martin Lynn 9780521590747
RRP: £90.99£77.49Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Independence of Spanish America by Jaime E. Rodriguez 9780521622981
RRP: £104.00£88.31This book provides a new interpretation of the process of Spanish American independence (1808-26); one which emphasises political processes and cultural continuities, instead of the break with Spain. It is the first book to examine the representative... -
The Economic Emergence of Modern Japan by Kozo Yamamura 9780521589468
RRP: £42.99£36.19The Economic Emergence of Modern Japan is a useful book for those interested in how Japan succeeded in transforming an agricultural economy into an advanced industrial economy. This volume brings together chapters from The Cambridge History of Japan,... -
Merchants, Companies and Trade: Europe and Asia in the Early Modern Era by Sushil Chaudhury 9780521563673
RRP: £104.00£88.31Written by well-known scholars, this book raises pertinent questions and takes up alternate perspectives on the growth and development of international trade between Europe and Asia, especially India, in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Through a... -
Deadly Dreams: Opium and the Arrow War (1856-1860) in China by J. Y. Wong 9780521552554
RRP: £125.00£103.67The Arrow War (1856-60) involved all the world's major powers, and could almost be called a world war because of the global economic and diplomatic issues driving it. For twenty-five years Dr John Wong has been trying to discover the true origins of the... -
The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684-1706 by John Thornton 9780521593700
RRP: £90.00£72.17This book tells the story of the Christian religious movement led by Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita in the Kingdom of Kongo from 1704 until her death, by burning at the stake, in 1706. Beatriz, a young woman, claimed to be possessed by St Anthony, argued that... -
Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt: Environment and Economy in Late Imperial South China by Robert Marks 9780521591775
RRP: £110.00£93.23Challenging the conventional wisdom conveyed by Western environmental historians about China, this book examines the correlations between economic and environmental changes in the southern Chinese provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi from 1400 to 1850, but... -
West African Slavery and Atlantic Commerce: The Senegal River Valley, 1700-1860 by James F. Searing 9780521534529
RRP: £34.99£29.35West African societies were transformed by the slave trade, even in regions where few slaves were exported. While many books have been written on the import and export trade and on warrior predation, Dr Searing's concern is with the effects of the... -
Muslim Brotherhoods in Nineteenth-Century Africa by B.G. Martin 9780521534512
RRP: £49.99£42.04The mystical and hierarchically organized brotherhoods, the sufi, were first formed in the twelfth century in Iraq, Iran, central Asia, and North Africa. These brotherhoods drew their members from all kinship groups and all classes and professions. By... -
The Central Republic in Mexico, 1835-1846: 'Hombres de Bien' in the Age of Santa Anna by Michael P. Costeloe 9780521530644
RRP: £38.99£32.28Much of the so-called Age of Santa Anna in the history of independent Mexico remains a mystery and no decade is less well understood than the years from 1835 to 1846. In 1834, the ruling elite of middle class hombres de bien concluded that a highly... -
British Business in Asia since 1860 by R. P. T. Davenport-Hines 9780521530583
RRP: £37.99£31.31This 1989 book examines the experience of British business in Asia since 1860. Following a wide-ranging introduction by the editors, there are essays by leading specialist historians on British business in Iran, India, Thailand, Malaysia, China, Russian... -
Philosophy, Philology, and Politics in Eighteenth-Century China: Li Fu and the Lu-Wang School under the Ch'ing by C. S. Huang 9780521529464
RRP: £30.99£25.45This book explains the general intellectual climate of the early Ch'ing period, and the political and cultural characteristics of the Ch'ing regime at the time. Professor Huang brings to life the book's central characters, Li Fu and the three great... -
Pragmatism in the Age of Jihad: The Precolonial State of Bundu by Michael A. Gomez 9780521528474
RRP: £42.99£36.19Bundu was an anomaly among the precolonial Muslim states of West Africa. Founded during the jihads which swept the savannah in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it developed a pragmatic policy, unique in the midst of fundamentalist, theocratic... -
Brazil and the Struggle for Rubber: A Study in Environmental History by Warren Dean 9780521526920
RRP: £38.99£32.28Brazil once enjoyed a near monopoly in rubber when the commodity was gathered in the wild. By 1913, however, cultivated rubber in South-east Asia swept the Brazilian gathered product from the market. In this innovative study, Warren Dean demonstrates... -
West Indian Slavery and British Abolition, 1783-1807 by David Beck Ryden 9780521486590
RRP: £105.00£82.41This book challenges conventional wisdom regarding the political and economic motivations behind the final decision to abolish the British slave trade in 1807. Recent historians believe that this first blow against slavery was the result of social... -
The Cuban Slave Market, 1790-1880 by Laird W. Bergad 9780521480598
RRP: £98.99£88.31Slavery was in many ways the fundamental institution in colonial Cuba, whose economy was based on the export of sugar from the slave-worked plantations. This volume presents a quantitative study of Cuban slavery from the late eighteenth century until... -
Reform in Modern Russian History: Progress or Cycle? by Theodore Taranovski 9780521451772
RRP: £75.99£68.63This volume provides a comparative study of the problems and prospects of reform in modern Russian history. Drawn from contributions to a May 1990 conference sponsored by the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, the book raises important... -
Power and Violence in the Colonial City: Oruro from the Mining Renaissance to the Rebellion of Tupac Amaru (1740-1782) by Oscar Cornblit 9780521441483
RRP: £90.99£77.09This book examines the characteristics of political power in the cities of the colonial Spanish Empire between the 1740s and 1780s, based on a detailed study of the mining city of Oruro in Alto Peru (present-day Bolivia). Special emphasis is given to the... -
West African Slavery and Atlantic Commerce: The Senegal River Valley, 1700-1860 by James F. Searing 9780521440837
RRP: £110.00£93.23West African societies were transformed by the slave trade, even in regions where few slaves were exported. While many books have been written on the import and export trade and on warrior predation, Dr Searing's concern is with the effects of the... -
A South African Kingdom: The Pursuit of Security in Nineteenth-Century Lesotho by Elizabeth A. Eldredge 9780521440677
RRP: £110.00£93.23The Basotho kingdom emerged and consolidated in the dramatic and dangerous environment of nineteenth-century South Africa. In this 2003 book, Elizabeth Eldredge provides a rich description of local agriculture, iron-working and craft industries, bringing... -
The City and Education in Four Nations by Ronald K. Goodenow 9780521410847
RRP: £105.00£93.23Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Protestant Evangelical Awakening by W. R. Ward 9780521414913
RRP: £105.00£82.41This book studies the early history of the Protestant revival movements of the eighteenth century from a European as well as Anglo-American perspective. Professor Ward examines the crisis in the Protestant world beyond that established and protected by...