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  • The Pacific

    by Donald B. Freeman ...
    Series series Seas in History
    In this fascinating and exciting overview, Donald B. Freeman explores the role of the Pacific Ocean in human history.Covering over one third of the globe, the Pacific Ocean plays a vital role in the lives and fortunes of more than two billion people who live on its rim-lands and islands. It has played a crucial part in shaping the histories of the different Pacific cultures, towards which it has ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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  • In Camp with the Katchins, Burma, Illustrated.

    by H E Colevile ...
    This report from an outpost of the British Empire in Northern Burma during the last decade of the nineteenth century highlights the colonial mindset. Written for an American Audience of the period. ... Read more

    $1.49 USD

  • Gandhi: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Bhikhu Parekh ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Gandhi (1869-1948) was one of the few men in history to fight simultaneously on moral, religious, political, social, economic, and cultural fronts. During his time as a lawyer in South Africa he developed his strategy of non-violence: the idea of opposing unjust laws by non-violent protest, which he made the basis of his successful struggle against British rule in India. In this Very Short ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • England's Yellow Peril

    Sinophobia and the Great War: Penguin Specials

    by Anne Witchard ...
    Series series Penguin China | Penguin Specials
    As England suffered heavy casualties at the front during World War One, the nation closed ranks against outsiders at home. England sought to reaffirm its racial dominance at the heart of the empire, and the Chinese in London became the principal scapegoat for anti-foreign sentiment. A combination of propaganda and popular culture, from the daily paper to the latest theatre sensation, fanned the ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • Ancient Religions of the Austronesian World

    From Australasia to Taiwan

    by Julian Baldick ...
    Series series International Library of Ethnicity, Identity and Culture
    Austronesia is the vast oceanic region which stretches from Madagascar to Taiwan to New Zealand. Encompassing both scattered archipelagos and major landmasses, Austronesia - derived from the Latin australis,'southern',and Greek nesos,'island' - is used primarily as a linguistic term, designating a family of languages spoken by peoples with a shared heritage. Julian Baldick, a celebrated historian ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • On Friendship

    One Hundred Maxims for a Chinese Prince

    by Matteo Ricci ...
    Translated by Timothy Billings ...
    "On Friendship, with its total of one hundred sayings, is the perfect gift for friends."-Feng Yingjing, renowned scholar and civic official, 1601Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) is best known as the Italian Jesuit missionary who brought Christianity to China. He also published a landmark text on friendship-the first book to be written in Chinese by a European-that instantly became a late Ming best seller ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895

    Perceptions, Power, and Primacy

    by S. C. M. Paine ...
    The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895 is a seminal event in world history, yet it has been virtually ignored in Western literature. In the East, the focus of Chinese foreign policy has been to undo its results whereas the focus of Japanese foreign policy has been to confirm them. Japan supplanted China as the dominant regional power, disrupting the traditional power balance and fracturing the ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

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  • Major Law and Policy Issues in the South China Sea

    European and American Perspectives

    by Yann-huei Song, Keyuan Zou ...
    Series series Contemporary Issues in the South China Sea
    Major law and policy issues in the South China Sea are discussed mainly from the perspectives of leading American and European scholars in the study of the complex South China Sea disputes. The issues include regional maritime cooperation and regime building, Southeast Asian countries’ responses to the Chinese assertiveness, China’s historic claims, maritime boundary delimitation and excessive ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • A Memoir of India and Afghanistan.

    With Observations on the Present Exciting and Critical State and Future Prospects of Those Countries.

    by Josiah Harlan ...
    Series series Elibron Classics
    Elibron Classics. Replica of 1842 edition by J. Dobson, Philadelphia.Josiah Harlan. A Memoir of India and Afghanistan. With Observations on the Present Exciting and Critical State and Future Prospects of Those Countries. Comprising Remarks on the Massacre of the British Army in Cabul, British Policy in India, a Detailed Descriptive Character of Dost Mahomed and His Court, etc.Josiah Harlan(1799 - ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • War Memory, Nationalism and Education in Postwar Japan

    The Japanese History Textbook Controversy and Ienaga Saburo's Court Challenges

    by Yoshiko Nozaki ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    The controversy over official state-approved history textbooks in Japan, which omit or play down many episodes of Japan’s occupation of neighbouring countries during the Asia-Pacific War (1931-1945), and which have been challenged by critics who favour more critical, peace and justice perspectives, goes to the heart of Japan’s sense of itself as a nation. The degree to which Japan is willing to ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • China and the Chinese in Popular Film

    From Fu Manchu to Charlie Chan

    by Jeffrey Richards ...
    Series series Cinema and Society
    There's a folk memory of China in which numberless yellow hordes pour out of the 'mysterious East' to overwhelm the vulnerable West, accompanied by a stereotype of the Chinese as cruel, cunning and depraved. Hollywood films played their part in perpetuating these myths and stereotypes that constituted 'The Yellow Peril'. Jeffrey Richards examines in detail how and why they did it. He shows how the ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • German Colonialism Revisited

    African, Asian, and Oceanic Experiences

    Edited by Nina Berman, Klaus Muehlhahn, Patrice Nganang ...
    Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
    German Colonialism Revisited brings together military historians, art historians, literary scholars, cultural theorists, and linguists to address a range of issues surrounding colonized African, Asian, and Oceanic people’s creative reactions to and interactions with German colonialism. This scholarship sheds new light on local power dynamics; agency; and economic, cultural, and social networks ... Read more

    $28.79 USD