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  • Historical Dictionary of Kazakhstan

    by Didar Kassymova, Zhanat Kundakbayeva, Ustina Markus ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East
    Kazakhstan is in some ways a very old nation dating back to the Kazakh Khanate of 1458, but it dramatically transformed within the Russian Empire and even more so during the period when it was part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Since 1991 it has been independent and has had to forge its own policy in all fields. Kazakhstan is in an enviable position in terms of exportable natural ... Read more

    $129.99 USD

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  • Everything Under the Heavens

    How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power

    by Howard W. French ...
    From the former New York Times Asia correspondent and author of China's Second Continent, an incisive investigation of China's ideological development as it becomes an ever more aggressive player in regional and global diplomacy.For many years after its reform and opening in 1978, China maintained an attitude of false modesty about its ambitions. That role, reports Howard French, has been set ... Read more

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  • The Pakistan Paradox

    Instability and Resilience

    by Christophe Jaffrelot ...
    Pakistan was born as the creation of elite Urdu-speaking Muslims who sought to govern a state that would maintain their dominance. After rallying non-Urdu speaking leaders around him, Jinnah imposed a unitary definition of the new nation state that obliterated linguistic diversity. This centralisation - 'justified' by the Indian threat - fostered centrifugal forces that resulted in Bengali ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • A Carved Cloak for Tahu

    A History of Ngai Tahu Matawhaiti

    by Mere Whaanga ...
    Oral histories, legends, and accounts of contemporary life of a New Zealand Maori tribe are presented in this cultural that includes colonial histories of the Native Land Court and traditional histories from the Northern Hawke's Bay. ... Read more

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  • Ancient Greece and China Compared

    Edited by G. E. R. Lloyd, Jingyi Jenny Zhao ...
    Ancient Greece and China Compared is a pioneering, methodologically sophisticated set of studies, bringing together scholars who all share the conviction that the sustained critical comparison and contrast between ancient societies can bring to light significant aspects of each that would be missed by focusing on just one of them. The topics tackled include key issues in philosophy and religion, ... Read more

    $124.99 USD

  • America, Britain and Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons Programme, 1974-1980

    A Dream of Nightmare Proportions

    by Malcolm M. Craig ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book analyses US and UK efforts to shut down Pakistan’s nuclear programme in the 1970s, between the catalytic Indian nuclear test of May 1974 and the decline of sustained non-proliferation activity from mid-1979 onwards. It is a tale of cooperation between Washington and London, but also a story of divisions and disputes. The brutal economic realities of the decade, globalisation, and wider ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Captives and Voyagers

    Black Migrants across the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World

    by Alexander X. Byrd ...
    Series series Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World
    Jamestown and Plymouth serve as iconic images of British migration to the New World. A century later, however, when British migration was at its peak, the vast majority of men, women, and children crisscrossing the Atlantic on English ships were of African, not English, descent. Captives and Voyagers, a compelling study from Alexander X. Byrd, traces the departures, voyages, and landings of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Art of Medicine in Early China

    The Ancient and Medieval Origins of a Modern Archive

    by Miranda Brown ...
    In this book, Miranda Brown investigates the myths that acupuncturists and herbalists have told about the birth of the healing arts. Moving from the Han (206 BC–AD 220) and Song (960–1279) dynasties to the twentieth century, Brown traces the rich history of Chinese medical historiography and the gradual emergence of the archive of medical tradition. She exposes the historical circumstances that ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • American Radio in China

    International Encounters with Technology and Communications, 1919-41

    by Michael A. Krysko ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Interwar era efforts to expand US radio into China floundered in the face of flawed US policies and approaches. Situated at the intersection of media studies, technology studies, and US foreign relations, this study frames the ill-fated radio initiatives as symptomatic of an increasingly troubled US-East Asian relationship before the Pacific War. ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Chinese Identities, Ethnicity and Cosmopolitanism

    by Kwok Bun Chan ...
    Series series Chinese Worlds
    Drawing upon wide-ranging case study material, the book explores the ever-changing personal and cultural identity of Chinese migrants and the diverse cosmopolitan communities they create. The various models of newly-forged communities are examined with the added dimension of personal identity and the individual's place in society.With particular emphasis on the changing face of Chinese ethnicity ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Maharajah of Bikaner

    India

    by Hugh Purcell ...
    Series series Makers of the Modern World
    The story of the Indian soldiery in the Great War needs a new telling and one important chapter of it will be about the Maharajah of Bikaner: Dashing, autocratic and a formidable public speaker, Ganga Singh commanded his own camel corps called the Ganga Risala, fought on the Western Front and in Egypt, became the first Indian general in the British Indian army and persuaded the maharajas to unite ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Things Japanese

    Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with Japan

    by Basil Hall Chamberlain ...
    Series series Stone Bridge Classics
    An early account of Japan's culture and customs, already vanishing as Japan lept into modernity in the late 20th century.Basil Hall Chamberlain left Britain after suffering a nervous breakdown. His destination: a Japan no less than 5 years into the Meiji period. There he studied the Japanese language and worked as a professor at the Tokyo Imperial University. Things Japanese, written like a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD