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  • A Short History of Iraq

    by Thabit Abdullah ...
    This accessible guide has been fully updated to take into account the Iraq War and subsequent developments, whilst retaining its character as a non-partisan and approachable text for students and interested readers alike.The twentieth century witnessed the transformation of the area known currently as Iraq from a backward region of the Ottoman Empire, to one of the most important and dynamic ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • The War Diaries of Weary Dunlop

    by Edward E Dunlop ...
    This extraordinary first-hand account of Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop's experiences as senior medical officer in the infamous prisoner-of-war camps in Java and on the Burma-Thailand Railway, is not only an account of great historical significance but also a testament to the ability of the human spirit to overcome the most unbearably cruel conditions.'I have the testimony of hundreds of Australians ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Tibet In a Nutshell

    by Jonathan Gregson ...
    To the Western imagination, Tibet has always been a mysterious place. For centuries its capital, Lhasa, was known as a Forbidden City: it was ruled by a priest-king, and its medieval society was not welcoming to foreigners. But the exile of the Dalai Lama and his followers half a century ago, the destruction of the monasteries, and the plight of the Tibetan people who remained, evoked continuing ... Read more

    $4.49 USD

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  • Betrayal in Paris

    How the Treaty of Versailles Led to China's Long Revolution: Penguin Specials

    by Paul French ...
    Series series Penguin China | Penguin Specials
    At the conclusion of 'the war to end war', the victorious powers set about redesigning the world map at the Paris Peace Conference. For China, Versailles presented an opportunity to regain territory lost to Japan at the start of the war. Yet, despite early encouragement from the world's superpowers, the country was to be severely disappointed. In this First World War China Special Paul French ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Middle Kingdom and Empire of the Rising Sun

    Sino-Japanese Relations, Past and Present

    by June Teufel Dreyer ...
    Japan and China have been rivals for more than a millennium. In more recent times, China was the more powerful until the late nineteenth century, while Japan took the upper hand in the twentieth. Now, China's resurgence has emboldened it even as Japan perceives itself falling behind, exacerbating long-standing historical frictions. June Teufel Dreyer's Middle Kingdom and Empire of the Rising Sun ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • The Changing Face of China

    From Mao to Market

    by John Gittings ...
    Where is China heading in the 21st century? Can its Communist Party survive or is it being challenged by growing inequality and unrest? Will the US and China cooperate or compete in a dangerous future? Will China's economic boom be brought to a halt by environmental catastrophe? In this highly readable account, John Gittings provides the essential information to help answer these vital questions ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • India in the World Economy

    From Antiquity to the Present

    by Tirthankar Roy ...
    Series Book 10 - New Approaches to Asian History
    Cross-cultural exchange has characterized the economic life of India since antiquity. Its long coastline has afforded convenient access to Asia and Africa as well as trading partnerships formed in the exchange of commodities ranging from textiles to military technology and from opium to indigo. In a journey across two thousand years, this enthralling book, written by a leading South Asian ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Comfort Woman

    A Filipina's Story of Prostitution and Slavery under the Japanese Military

    by Maria Rosa Henson, Sheila S. Coronel ...
    Series series Asian Voices
    From Comfort Woman:“We began the day with breakfast, after which we swept and cleaned our rooms. Then we went to the bathroom downstairs to wash the only dress we had and to bathe. The bathroom did not even have a door, so the soldiers watched us. We were all naked, and they laughed at us, especially me and the other young girl who did not have any pubic hair.“At two, the soldiers came. My work ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Historical Farmland in China During 1661-1980

    Reconstruction and Spatiotemporal Characteristics

    by Xiaobin Jin, Yinkang Zhou, Xuhong Yang, Yinong Cheng ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book explores various approaches to reconstruct the spatial and temporal distribution of historical farmland in China. The book contains background information about political regimes, economic and social development, population changes and land resource utilization in the past 300 years in China. A literature review focuses on the assumptions, methodologies and models of reconstructing ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Freeing China's Farmers: Rural Restructuring in the Reform Era

    Rural Restructuring in the Reform Era

    by David Zweig ...
    A comprehensive analysts of China's rural reforms, this book links local experiences to national policy, showing the dynamic tension in the reform process among state policy, local cadre power and self-interest, and the peasants' search for economic growth. Key topics covered include: the responsibility system, privatization and changing property rights, industrialization, social conflict, cadre ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Dandyism and Transcultural Modernity

    The Dandy, the Flaneur, and the Translator in 1930s Shanghai, Tokyo, and Paris

    by Hsiao-yen Peng ...
    Series series Academia Sinica on East Asia
    This book views the Neo-Sensation mode of writing as a traveling genre, or style, that originated in France, moved on to Japan, and then to China. The author contends that modernity is possible only on "the transcultural site"—transcultural in the sense of breaking the divide between past and present, elite and popular, national and regional, male and female, literary and non-literary, inside and ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Nomadic Empires

    From Mongolia to the Danube

    Edited by Gerard Chaliand ...
    "Nomadic Empires sheds new light on 2,000 years of military history and geopolitics. The Mongol Empire of Genghis-Khan and his heirs, as is well known, was the greatest empire in world history. For 2,000 from the fifth century b.c. to the fifteenth century a.d., the steppe areas of Asia, from the borders of Manchuria to the Black Sea, were a ""zone of turbulence,"" threatening settled peoples from ... Read more

    $68.99 USD