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  • The Red Earth

    A Vietnamese Memoir of Life on a Colonial Rubber Plantation

    by Binh Tu Tran ...
    Translated by John Spragens ...
    Series series Research in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series
    Phu Rieng was one of many French rubber plantations in colonial Vietnam; Tran Tu Binh was one of 17,606 laborers brought to work there in 1927, and his memoir is a straightforward, emotionally searing account of how one Vietnamese youth became involved in revolutionary politics. The connection between this early experience and later activities of the author becomes clear as we learn that Tran Tu ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • White Mughals

    Love and Betrayal in 18th-century India (Text Only)

    by William Dalrymple ...
    From the author of the Samuel Johnson prize-shortlisted ‘Return of a King’, the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that transcended all the cultural, religious and political boundaries of its time.James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of Hyderabad when he met Khair un-Nissa – ‘Most Excellent among Women’ – the great-niece of the Prime ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A History of Modern Indonesia

    by Adrian Vickers ...
    Since the Bali bombings of 2002 and the rise of political Islam, Indonesia has frequently occupied media headlines. Nevertheless, the history of the fourth largest country on earth remains relatively unknown. Adrian Vickers' book, first published in 2005, traces the history of an island country, comprising some 240 million people, from the colonial period through revolution and independence to the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • A Bitter Revolution : China's struggle with the modern world

    China's Struggle with the Modern World

    by Rana Mitter ...
    Series series Making of the Modern World
    China is now poised to take a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation could not have been more different. Rana Mitter goes back to this pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from a premodern past into a modern world. Mitter takes us through the resulting social turmoil and political promise, the devastating war ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism

    by Robert E. Buswell Jr., Donald S. Lopez Jr. ...
    The most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of Buddhism ever produced in EnglishWith more than 5,000 entries totaling over a million words, this is the most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of Buddhism ever produced in English. It is also the first to cover terms from all of the canonical Buddhist languages and traditions: Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Tibet In a Nutshell

    by Jonathan Gregson ...
    To the Western imagination, Tibet has always been a mysterious place. For centuries its capital, Lhasa, was known as a Forbidden City: it was ruled by a priest-king, and its medieval society was not welcoming to foreigners. But the exile of the Dalai Lama and his followers half a century ago, the destruction of the monasteries, and the plight of the Tibetan people who remained, evoked continuing ... Read more

    $4.49 USD

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  • The Samurai Capture a King

    Okinawa 1609

    by Dr Stephen Turnbull ...
    Series Book 6 - Raid
    A brilliant but little-known operation, the Shimazu clan raid on the independent kingdom of Ryukyu (modern Okinawa) in 1609 is one of the most extraordinary episodes in samurai history and the culmination of centuries of rivalry between the two powers. The defeat of the Shimazu at Sekigahara in 1600, and their need to win favour with the new Shogun, led them to hatch an audacious plot to attack ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • A Preliminary Analysis of the October 1, 1965 Coup in Indonesia

    by equinox ...
    Although numerous accounts have been published of the genesis and character of the attempted October 1965 coup in Indonesia, many important aspects of that affair still remain very unclear. This seminal work by two of the world's leading Indonesianists offers the first clear analysis of what really occurred during this dark time in Indonesia's history. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Burma's Economy in the Twentieth Century

    by Ian Brown ...
    At the beginning of the twentieth century, Burma was among the most prosperous territories in the East. Yet since gaining independence in 1948, its economy has struggled. Burma's developmental failure has often been attributed to gross mismanagement of the economy by the military who took power in 1962 but in this illuminating book, Ian Brown, one of the leading economic historians of Southeast ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • A Brief History of Khubilai Khan

    Lord of Xanadu, Founder of the Yuan Dynasty, Emperor of China

    by Jonathan Clements ...
    Series series Brief Histories
    His 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 stretched from the Balkans to the Korean coast. His armies conquered the Asian kingdom of Dali and brought down the last defenders of imperial China ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • The Cultural Revolution on Trial

    Mao and the Gang of Four

    by Alexander C. Cook ...
    The trial of Cultural Revolution leaders, including Mao's widow and her Gang of Four, was the signal event in China's post-Mao transition. In its wake, Chinese socialism emerged from the rubble of the Cultural Revolution to create the China that we know today. This spectacular show trial was a curious example of transitional justice, marking a break from the trauma of the past, a shift to the ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • India in the World Economy

    From Antiquity to the Present

    by Tirthankar Roy ...
    Series Book 10 - New Approaches to Asian History
    Cross-cultural exchange has characterized the economic life of India since antiquity. Its long coastline has afforded convenient access to Asia and Africa as well as trading partnerships formed in the exchange of commodities ranging from textiles to military technology and from opium to indigo. In a journey across two thousand years, this enthralling book, written by a leading South Asian ... Read more

    $36.99 USD