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  • With Alexander in India and Central Asia

    moving east and back to west

    Edited by Claudia Antonetti, P Biagi ...
    Alexander conquered most parts of the Western World, but there is a great deal of controversy over his invasion of India, the least known of his campaigns. In BC 327 Alexander came to India, and tried to cross the Jhelum river for the invasion, but was then confronted by King Porus who ruled an area in what is now the Punjab. According to Indian history he was stopped by Porus at his entry into ... Read more

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    A Memoir

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    "I was born in southern China in 1962, in the tiny town of Yellow Stone. They called it the Year of Great Starvation."In 1962, as millions of Chinese citizens were gripped by Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution and the Red Guards enforced a brutal regime of communism, a boy was born to a poor family in southern China. This family—the Chens—had once been respected landlords in the village of Yellow ... Read more

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  • The Jewish War

    by Josephus, E. Mary Smallwood ...
    Translated by G. Williamson ...
    Josephus’ account of a war marked by treachery and atrocity is a superbly detailed and evocative record of the Jewish rebellion against Rome between AD 66 and 70. Originally a rebel leader, Josephus changed sides after he was captured to become a Rome-appointed negotiator, and so was uniquely placed to observe these turbulent events, from the siege of Jerusalem to the final heroic resistance and ... Read more

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  • Middle Kingdom and Empire of the Rising Sun

    Sino-Japanese Relations, Past and Present

    by June Teufel Dreyer ...
    Japan and China have been rivals for more than a millennium. In more recent times, China was the more powerful until the late nineteenth century, while Japan took the upper hand in the twentieth. Now, China's resurgence has emboldened it even as Japan perceives itself falling behind, exacerbating long-standing historical frictions. June Teufel Dreyer's Middle Kingdom and Empire of the Rising Sun ... Read more

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  • Kurds and the State in Iran

    The Making of Kurdish Identity

    by Abbas Vali ...
    In early 1946, Kurds declared an independent republic in north-west Iran. The Mahabad Republic, as it became known, was the first time that the Kurds experienced self-rule in the modern era. Although short-lived, the Republic had a formative influence on the subsequent development of Kurdish nationalist movements in Iran and the wider region. Here, Abbas Vali disputes the conventional view that ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • 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

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  • The Gempei War 1180–85

    The Great Samurai Civil War

    by Dr Stephen Turnbull ...
    Series Book 297 - Campaign
    Internationally renowned samurai expert Dr Stephen Turnbull delves into a pivotal era of Japanese history in this highly illustrated account of The Gempei War, a conflict that defined the age and the ethos of the samurai.Never before had there been a large-scale clash between two rival samurai families, the Taira and the Minamoto, and never again would the result of a war in Japan be quite so ... Read more

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  • Law and Custom in Korea

    Comparative Legal History

    by Marie Seong-Hak Kim ...
    This book sets forth the evolution of Korea's law and legal system from the Chosǒn dynasty through the colonial and postcolonial modern periods. This is the first book in English that comprehensively studies Korean legal history in comparison with European legal history, with particular emphasis on customary law. Korea's passage to Romano-German civil law under Japanese rule marked a drastic ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • The Political Economy of China’s Systemic Transformation

    1979 to the Present

    by V. Mantzopoulos, R. Shen ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The future success of China's rapidly growing economy remains uncertain. This book analyzes official documents, data and current writings of recognized academicians investigating China's experience with systemic restructuring. ... Read more

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  • The Making of China’s Peace with Japan

    What Xi Jinping Should Learn from Zhou Enlai

    by Mayumi Itoh ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This text provides a comprehensive re-examination of post-World War II Sino-Japanese relations, focusing notably on Chinese premier Zhou Enlai’s foreign policy toward Japan. It juxtaposes Zhou’s stance on issues which confront current bilateral relations — such as the “history issues” and the territorial dispute over the Senkaku (or Diaoyu) Islands — with the current Chinese foreign policy of ... Read more

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  • Indian Muslim Minorities and the 1857 Rebellion

    Religion, Rebels and Jihad

    by Ilyse R. Morgenstein Fuerst ...
    While jihad has been the subject of countless studies in the wake of recent terrorist attacks, scholarship on the topic has so far paid little attention to South Asian Islam and, more specifically, its place in South Asian history. Seeking to fill some gaps in the historiography, Ilyse R. Morgenstein Fuerst examines the effects of the 1857 Rebellion (long taught in Britain as the 'Indian Mutiny') ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Mapping Modernity in Shanghai

    Space, Gender, and Visual Culture in the Sojourners' City, 1853-98

    by Samuel Y. Liang ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations
    This book argues that modernity first arrived in late nineteenth-century Shanghai via a new spatial configuration. This city’s colonial capitalist development ruptured the traditional configuration of self-contained households, towns, and natural landscapes in a continuous spread, producing a new set of fragmented as well as fluid spaces. In this process, Chinese sojourners actively appropriated ... Read more

    $68.99 USD