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  • Japan as the Occupier and the Occupied

    Edited by M. Caprio ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Japan as the Occupier and the Occupied examines transwar political, military and social transitions in Japan and various territories that it controlled, including Korea, Borneo, Singapore, Manchuria and China, before and after August 1945. This approach allows a more nuanced understanding of Japan's role as occupier and occupied to emerge. ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

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  • Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

    by Jack Weatherford ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The startling true history of how one extraordinary man from a remote corner of the world created an empire that led the world into the modern age—by the author featured in Echoes of the Empire: Beyond Genghis Khan.The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every country the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Cage

    The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers

    by Gordon Weiss ...
    "The Cage is a tightly written and clear-eyed narrative about one of the most disturbing human dramas of recent years. . . . A riveting, cautionary tale about the consequences of unchecked political power in a country at war. A must-read." —Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker staff writer and author of The Fall of BaghdadIn the closing days of the thirty-year Sri Lankan civil war, tens of thousands of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Short History of Bali: Indonesia's Hindu Realm

    Indonesia's Hindu Realm

    by Robert Pringle ...
    A Short History of Bali covers the entire history of this intriguing and mysterious island from before the Bronze Age to the presidency of Megawati Sukarnoputri and the tragedy of the Kuta bombings on 12 October 2002. It looks at the arrival of Indian culture early European contact the role of anthropologists and taste-makers of the 1930s in romanticising the island and the complex legacies of ... Read more

    $13.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $6.99 USD

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  • Hampi - The Forgotten Empire

    by Harpreet Kaur Kapoor ...
    Hampi is a world heritage site and holds some of the most unique remains from the great empire of Vijayanagar. The site has an ongoing archaeological dig that has been on since the past 20 years now. With world famous historians and archaeologists having worked on it. The government may have reduced the dig allowance but the enthusiasm has not reduced.There is still so much to know. ... Read more

    $2.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia

    Visions of World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought

    by Cemil Aydin ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in International and Global History
    In this rich intellectual history, Cemil Aydin challenges the notion that anti-Westernism in modern Asia is a political and religious reaction to the liberal and democratic values of the West. Nor is anti-Westernism a natural response to Western imperialism. Instead, by focusing on the agency and achievements of non-Western intellectuals, Aydin demonstrates that modern anti-Western discourse grew ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Singapore and Asia - Celebrating Globalisation and an Emerging Post-Modern Asian Civilisation

    by Thiow Kong Ti, Edwards SW Ti ...
    Singapore and Asia- Celebrating Globalisation and an Emerging Post-modern Asian Civilisation TK Ti and Edward SE Ti This book examines the history of the global economy and how cultural values have empowered the rapid emergence of Singapore and East Asia. A review of the major world civilizations recounts Western hegemony since the 16th century. With legacies from Classical Mediterranean, Islamic ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Angry Nation

    Turkey since 1989

    by Kerem Öktem ...
    Series series Global History of the Present
    Since its re-emergence as nation-state in 1923, Turkey has often looked like an odd appendix to the West situated in the borderlands of Europe and the Middle East, economically backward, inward looking, marred by political violence, yet a staunch NATO ally, it has been eyed with suspicion by both 'East' and 'West'. The momentous changes in the regional and world order after 1989 have catapulted ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • The Frozen Chosen

    The 1st Marine Division and the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir

    by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver ...
    Based on unpublished first-hand accounts of the battle, this is a dramatic retelling of the desperate Battle of the Chosin Reservoir, where the heavily outnumbered US 1st Marine Division held off vastly superior Chinese forces before successfully withdrawing in good order.In November 1950 The US 1st Marine Division was trapped in the Chosin Reservoir following the intervention of Red China in the ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

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  • Advancing East Asian Regionalism

    Edited by Melissa Curley, Nicholas Thomas ...
    Series series Politics in Asia
    Developments in East Asia have progressed rapidly in terms of regionalism since the 1997 crisis. The end of the Asian miracle called into question not only the capacity of regional states to meet the needs of their attendant peoples, but also challenged the viability of regional organizations, such as ASEAN, to adapt and respond to the changing circumstances.Advancing East Asian Regionalism looks ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Imperial Tombs in Tang China, 618-907

    The Politics of Paradise

    by Tonia Eckfeld ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Early History of Asia
    Intellectually and visually stimulating, this important landmark book looks at the religious, political, social and artistic significance of the Imperial tombs of the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD). It traces the evolutionary development of the most elaborately beautiful imperial tombs to examine fundamental issues on death and the afterlife in one of the world's most sophisticated civilizations. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD