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  • The Indian Ocean

    de Michael N. Pearson ...
    Series series Seas in History
    In this stimulating and authoritative overview, Michael Pearson reverses the traditional angle of maritime history and looks from the sea to its shores - its impact on the land through trade, naval power, travel and scientific exploration. This vast ocean, both connecting and separating nations, has shaped many countries' cultures and ideologies through the movement of goods, people, ideas and ... Leer más

    $66.99 USD

  • Port Cities and Intruders

    The Swahili Coast, India, and Portugal in the Early Modern Era

    de Michael N. Pearson ...
    Series Libro 23 - The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History
    Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleIn Port Cities and Intruders, historian Michael Pearson explores the role of port cities and their orientation, relations between the coast and the interior, the place of the coast in the world economy, and the impact of the Portuguese in the early modern period. ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

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  • Captain Thunderbolt and His Lady

    The true story of bushrangers Frederick Ward and Mary Ann Bugg

    de Carol Baxter ...
    He was the gentleman bushranger . she was the woman who rode with him. Full of action and drama, this is the richly detailed and unputdownable true story of Captain Thunderbolt and his lady.He was the gentleman bushranger . she was the woman who rode with him. This is the true story of Captain Thunderbolt and his lady.'Bail up!' demanded Captain Thunderbolt before he shouted the bar with the inn ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Conquest

    How Societies Overwhelm Others

    de David Day ...
    In this bold, sweeping book, David Day surveys the ways in which one nation or society has supplanted another, and then sought to justify its occupation - for example, the English in Australia and North America, the Normans in England, the Spanish in Mexico, the Japanese in Korea, the Chinese in Tibet. Human history has been marked by territorial aggression and expanion, an endless cycle of ... Leer más

    $26.59 USD

  • The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895

    Perceptions, Power, and Primacy

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

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  • Ancient Religions of the Austronesian World

    From Australasia to Taiwan

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $109.99 USD

  • A Carved Cloak for Tahu

    A History of Ngai Tahu Matawhaiti

    de Mere Whaanga ...
    Oral histories, legends, and accounts of contemporary life of a New Zealand Maori tribe are presented in this cultural that includes colonial histories of the Native Land Court and traditional histories from the Northern Hawke's Bay. ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Behind the Rock and Beyond

    de Leon Isackson, Jon Hayton ...
    Teen Time, Bandstand, Dig Richards, Johnny O'Keefe, Sing, Sing, Sing, Col Joye & The Joy Boys, The Delltones, Sydney Stadium, Saigon ... some of the names to be found in Behind The Rock, the refreshing frank reminiscences of Australian rock musicians, Jon Hayton and Leon Isackson. Based on personal diaries, Behind The Rock is a humorous and honest account of life in the Australian rock'n'roll ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Asia Pacific in the Age of Globalization

    Edición de R. Johnson ...
    Series series History (R0)
    The essays in this volume examine United States-East Asian relations in the framework of global history, incorporating fresh insights that have been offered by scholars on such topics as globalization, human rights, historical memory, and trans-cultural relations. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Chinese Market Gardening in Australia and New Zealand

    Gardens of Prosperity

    de Joanna Boileau ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book offers a fresh perspective on the Chinese diaspora. It is about the mobilisation of knowledge across time and space, exploring the history of Chinese market gardening in Australia and New Zealand. It enlarges our understanding of processes of technological change and human mobility, highlighting the mobility of migrants as an essential element in the mobility and adaptation of ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • The Lover of God

    de Rabindranath Tagore ...
    Traducido por Chase Twichell ...
    Tagore's supressed book now available in an English-Bengali editionFor the first time in English, here is the sequence of poems Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore (18611941) worked on his entire life-the erotic and emotionally powerful dialogue about Lord Krishna and his young lover Radha.These "song offerings" are the first poems Tagore ever published, though he passed them off as those of an ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Anglicanism and the British Empire, c.1700-1850

    de Rowan Strong ...
    Between 1700 and 1850 the Church of England was the among the most powerful and influential religious, social, and political forces in Britain. This was also a momentous time for the British Empire, during which it developed and then lost the North American colonies, extended into India, and settled the colonies of Australia and New Zealand. Public understanding of this expanding empire was ... Leer más

    $112.99 USD