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“werner gruhl”

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  • Imperial Japan's World War Two

    1931-1945

    by Werner Gruhl ...
    Gruhl's narrative makes clear why Japan's World War II aggression still touches deep emotions with East Asians and Western ex-prisoners of war, and why there is justifiable sensitivity to the way modern Japan has dealt with this legacy. Knowledge of the enormity of Japan's total war is also necessary to assess the United States' and her allies' policies toward Japan, and their reactions to its ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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  • Gutted

    by Justin Chin ...
    - Chin’s writings have been anthologized widely; most notably in The Outlaw Bible Of American Poetry (Thunder's Mouth), American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon), The World In Us: Lesbian and Gay Poetry of the Next Wave (St. Martin's), and Chick For A Day (Simon & Schuster). - Expressions of loss and grief are timeless and speak to a broad audience ... Read more

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  • A Thirst for Empire

    How Tea Shaped the Modern World

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  • 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

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  • Multicultural China in the Early Middle Ages

    by Sanping Chen ...
    Series series Encounters with Asia
    In contrast to the economic and cultural dominance by the south and the east coast over the past several centuries, influence in China in the early Middle Ages was centered in the north and featured a significantly multicultural society. Many events that were profoundly formative for the future of East Asian civilization occurred during this period, although much of this multiculturalism has long ... Read more

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  • Modern Japan: All That Matters

    by Jonathan Clements ...
    Series series All That Matters
    How has Japan become a global superpower and what does the future look like for it? There was a time in the 1980s when, if the media were to be believed, the Japanese were set to become the masters of the world and owners of all our companies and intellectual properties. Today, Japan's rapid ascendancy now seems dwarfed by the metoric rise of its neighbour, China.Here, Jonathan Clements charts the ... Read more

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  • Sovereignty and Authenticity

    Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern

    by Prasenjit Duara ...
    Series series State & Society in East Asia
    In this powerful and provocative book, Prasenjit Duara uses the case of Manchukuo, the Japanese puppet state in northeast China from 1932-1945, to explore how such antinomies as imperialism and nationalism, modernity and tradition, and governmentality and exploitation interacted in the post-World War I period. His study of Manchukuo, which had a population of 40 million and was three times the ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Qur'ān

    Edited by Jane Dammen McAuliffe ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Religion
    As the living scriptural heritage of more than a billion people, the Qur'an (Koran) speaks with a powerful voice. Just as other scriptural religions, Islam has produced a long tradition of interpretation for its holy book. Nevertheless, efforts to introduce the Qur'an and its intellectual heritage to English-speaking audiences have been hampered by the lack of available resources. The Cambridge ... Read more

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  • Chinese Civilization

    by Marcel Granet ...
    Originally published between 1920-70,The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing. It was published at a formative time within the social sciences, and during a period of decisive historical discovery. The aim of the general editor, C.K. Ogden, was to summarize the most up to date findings and theories of historians, anthropologists, archaeologists and ... Read more

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    The Inter-Service-Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan

    by Hein Kiessling ...
    Established in the wake of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-8 by the Australian army officer Major-General Walter Cawthorne, then Deputy Chief of Staff in the Pakistan Army, Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) for years remained an under-developed and obscure agency. In 1979, the organisation's growing importance was felt during the Soviet war in Afghanistan , as it worked hand in glove ... Read more

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  • Sino-Russian Relations

    A Short History

    by R.K.I. Quested ...
    This book provides a systematic history of Sino-Russian relations, a history which is invaluable in forming an understanding of relations between the two nations today. Becoming neighbours in the seventeenth century, their changing relations in peace and war, in isolation, cooperation and confrontation have steadily assumed a greater importance in world politics and become increasingly important ... Read more

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