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“alain peyrefitte”

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  • The Immobile Empire

    by Alain Peyrefitte ...
    In 1793, Lord George Macartney and an enormous delegation—including diplomats, doctors, scholars, painters, musicians, soldiers, and aristocrats—entered Beijing on a mission to open China to British trade. But Macartney’s famous refusal to perform the traditional kowtow before the Chinese Emperor was just one sign that the two empires would not see eye to eye, and the trade talks failed. The ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    by David B. McCoy ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.George Washington – a figure synonymous with American history. His image is known worldwide, marked on American currency, postage stamps – even a state is named after him. George Washington in an Hour explores the man beneath the symbol. This is the essential chronicle of Washington’s life – his rise from middle class Virginian upbringing to ... Read more

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  • Parihaka Invaded

    by Dick Scott ...
    Series series BWB Texts
    The non-violent defiance of Te Whiti-o-Rongomai, Tohu Kakahi and their followers at Parihaka is one of the great New Zealand narratives. This extract from the book by journalist Dick Scott which brought the story to the wider Pākehā world describes what happened when troops and settler volunteers invaded the village of Parihaka on 5 November 1881. ... Read more

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  • The Chinese Diaspora in South-East Asia

    The Overseas Chinese in IndoChina

    by Tracy C. Barrett ...
    As Qing Dynasty China disintegrated, economic hardship and civil disorder led to millions of Chinese men and women seeking their fortunes abroad, many journeying south into French Indochina. These emigres settled into tight-knit communities called huiguan: organisations which closely mirrored the religious, social and economic constitution of their own places of origin. Here, Tracy Barrett sheds ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • American Founding Fathers In Color

    Adams, Washington, Jefferson and Others

    by Speedy Publishing ...
    In children, education is a marriage between academic structure and sensual inspiration. Playing recruits their natural powers of imagination and reduces boredom or resistance. As an inherent avenue to assimilate the overwhelming amount of data received daily, playing emulates the skills they will need in the future. Indeed, creating examples of rivalry and agreement through active participation ... Read more

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  • My Days With Gandhi

    by Nirmal Kumar Bose ...
    This book deals with the last phase of Gandhis life. The author was Gandhis secretary and companion during those crucial last years. He has drawn on his close relationship with the Mahatma, and on a wealth of documentary evidence to show how Gandhi dealt with the crises he experienced both at the personal and political level. An honest and searching study that throws light on Gandhis personality ... Read more

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  • Chinese in Colonial Burma

    A Migrant Community in A Multiethnic State

    by Yi Li ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Using previously unexplored archives from colonial institutions and individuals, and primary materials produced by the Burmese Chinese, this comprehensive study investigates over a century of history of the Burmese Chinese under British colonial rule. Due to the peculiar position of Burma in the British imperial world and the Southeast Asian Chinese network, the Chinese community had a unique ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Fifty Years with the British

    by Kirpalani S K ...
    This is a remarkable document derived from meticulously kept diaries by S K Kirpalani, ICS, the second Sindhi to become collector(his brother was the first). The author presents a compelling portrait, beautifully written, of his life and administrative career-an account that spans the first half of the twentieth century. The early chapters vividly recapture his childhood in Sind at the beginning ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Global History of the Balfour Declaration

    Declared Nation

    by Maryanne A. Rhett ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern History
    This book examines the development and issuance of the Balfour Declaration, the document that set the stage for the creation of the state of Israel, within its global setting. The heart of the book demonstrates that the Declaration developed and contributed to a juncture in a global dialogue about the nature and definition of nation at the outset of the twentieth century. Embedded in this ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Political Cultural Developments in East Asia

    Interpreting Logics of Change

    by P. W. Preston ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book offers an interpretive and critical comparative politics analysis of the post-1945 development trajectory of the broad East Asian region and its component countries. The discussion considers the region and its countries in terms of their historical legacies (colonialism, war and the preoccupation with development) and argues that each country has constructed their own way of ordering ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Captain Elliot and the Founding of Hong Kong

    Pearl of the Orient

    by Jon Bursey ...
    An in-depth look at the life of Captain Charles Elliot—from his Royal Navy career to his controversial role in establishing Hong Kong as a British colony.On January 26, 1841, the British took possession of the island of Hong Kong. The Convention of Chuenpi was immediately repudiated by both the British and Chinese governments and their respective negotiators recalled. For the British this was Capt ... Read more

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  • Affairs of China

    A Survey of the Recent History and Present Circumstances of the Republic of China

    by Eric Teichman ...
    First published in 1938, this book aims to be a ‘true and objective’ account of China’s recent history and its present circumstances at the time, drawing on the author’s thirty years of experience as a member of the British consular service in China. The recurrent themes of the period are examined: the efforts of the Chinese leadership to build a new China out of the ruins of the old, their ... Read more

    $62.99 USD