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  • Planning Chinese Agriculture

    de Kenneth R Walker ...
    First Published in 1965. This short monograph is the first result of the author's decision in 1959 to study the Chinese economy. This came about as they were appointed to join a group of economists with the shared goal of examining the modern problems of Asian countries. The aim of the essay is to outline one of the many real problems encountered by the Chinese Government in carrying through a ... Leer más

    $61.99 USD

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  • A Concise History of Modern India

    de Barbara D. Metcalf, Thomas R. Metcalf ...
    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    A Concise History of Modern India by Barbara D. Metcalf and Thomas R. Metcalf, has become a classic in the field since it was first published in 2001. As a fresh interpretation of Indian history from the Mughals to the present, it has informed students across the world. In the third edition of the book, a final chapter charts the dramatic developments of the last twenty years, from 1990 through ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Black Dragon River

    A Journey Down the Amur River Between Russia and China

    de Dominic Ziegler ...
    “As the book’s subtitle indicates, Mr. Ziegler uses one of the world’s great rivers as a vehicle to pursue this story—and what a vehicle it is. . . . [He] writes beautifully, and with the fervor of a naturalist.” ***—*The Wall Street Journal“The writing is superb . . . a true labour of love, Black Dragon River is a triumph.” *—The SpectatorBlack Dragon River* is a personal... ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Modern China

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Rana Mitter ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    China today is never out of the news: from international finance to human rights controversies, global coverage of its rising international presence, and the Chinese 'economic miracle'. It seems to be a country of contradictions: a peasant society with some of the world's most futuristic cities, heir to an ancient civilization that is still trying to find a modern identity. This Very Short ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Long Road Home

    Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor

    de Yong Kim ...
    Kim Yong shares his harrowing account of life in a labor camp-a singularly despairing form of torture carried out by the secret state. Although it is known that gulags exist in North Korea, little information is available about their organization and conduct, for prisoners rarely escape both incarceration and the country alive. Long Road Home shares the remarkable story of one such survivor, a ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

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  • Early Samurai AD 200–1500

    de Anthony J Bryant ...
    Series Libro 35 - Elite
    War played a central part in the history of Japan.Warring clans controlled much of the country. The wars were usually about land, the struggle for control of which eventually gave rise to perhaps the most formidable warriors of all time: the Samurai. Ancient Yayoi warriors developed weapons, armour and a code during the ensuing centuries that became the centrepiece for the Japanese Samurai.Anthony ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The Samurai Capture a King

    Okinawa 1609

    de Dr Stephen Turnbull ...
    Series Libro 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 ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Jihad in Islamic History

    Doctrines and Practice

    de Michael Bonner ...
    What is jihad? Does it mean violence, as many non-Muslims assume? Or does it mean peace, as some Muslims insist? Because jihad is closely associated with the early spread of Islam, today's debate about the origin and meaning of jihad is nothing less than a struggle over Islam itself. In Jihad in Islamic History, Michael Bonner provides the first study in English that focuses on the early history ... Leer más

    $26.69 USD

  • The Muslim Empires of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals

    de Stephen F. Dale ...
    Series Libro 5 - New Approaches to Asian History
    Between 1453 and 1526 Muslims founded three major states in the Mediterranean, Iran and South Asia: respectively the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires. By the early seventeenth century their descendants controlled territories that encompassed much of the Muslim world, stretching from the Balkans and North Africa to the Bay of Bengal and including a combined population of between 130 and 160 ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • The Archaeology of Japan

    From the Earliest Rice Farming Villages to the Rise of the State

    de Koji Mizoguchi ...
    Series series Cambridge World Archaeology
    This is the first book-length study of the Yayoi and Kofun periods of Japan (c.600 BC–AD 700), in which the introduction of rice paddy-field farming from the Korean peninsula ignited the rapid development of social complexity and hierarchy that culminated with the formation of the ancient Japanese state. The author traces the historical trajectory of the Yayoi and Kofun periods by employing ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Chinese History in Geographical Perspective

    de Kathlene Baldanza, Peter K. Bol, Andrew Chittick, Luke Hambleton, Laura Hostetler, Huei-Ying Kuo, Yajun Mo, Gregory Rohlf, Karl Ryavec, Daoqin Tong, Stephen Whiteman, Jiang Wu, Xiaoquan Raphael Zhang ...
    The authors in this volume believe that long-term, profound, and sometimes tumultuous changes in the last five hundred years of the history of China have been no less geographical than social, political, or economic. From the dialectics of local-empire relations to the imperial state’s persistent array of projects for absorbing and transforming ethnic regions on the margins of empire; from the ... Leer más

    $46.99 USD

  • Transnational Communities in the Smartphone Age

    The Korean Community in the Nation’s Capital

    de Young A. Jung, Gyu Tag Lee, Dae Young Kim ...
    Series series Korean Communities across the World
    Transnational Communities in the Smartphone Age: The Korean Community in the Nation's Capital examines the durable ties immigrants maintain with the home country and focuses in particular on their transnational cultural activities.In light of changing technologies, especially information and communication technologies (ICTs), which enable a faster, easier, and greater social and cultural ... Leer más

    $105.99 USD