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The Gate to China: A New History of the People's Republic & Hong Kong

The Gate to China: A New History of the People's Republic & Hong Kong

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'Impressive ... Fascinating' Sunday Times'An authoritative history' Financial Times'Gripping and richly researched' Rana MitterA superb new history of the rise of China and the fall of Hong Kong to authoritarian...
Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen: The Story of Nuncomar and the Impeachment of Sir Elijah Impey

Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen: The Story of Nuncomar and the Impeachment of Sir Elijah Impey

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Down and Out in Saigon: Stories of the Poor in a Colonial City

Down and Out in Saigon: Stories of the Poor in a Colonial City

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A moving portrait of the lives of six poor city-dwellers, set in early twentieth century colonial Saigon Historian Haydon Cherry offers the first comprehensive social history of the urban poor...
Trouser People: A Quest for the Victorian Footballer Who Made Burma Play the Empire's Game

Trouser People: A Quest for the Victorian Footballer Who Made Burma Play the Empire's Game

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The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China

The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China

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Author: Peter B. LavelleFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 304 pagesPublished: Columbia University Press, United States, 2020In the nineteenth century, the Qing empire experienced a period of profound turmoil caused by...
The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China

The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China

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Author: Peter B. LavelleFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 304 pagesPublished: Columbia University Press, United States, 2020In the nineteenth century, the Qing empire experienced a period of profound turmoil caused by...
Fallout: the Hiroshima cover-up and the reporter who revealed it to the world

Fallout: the Hiroshima cover-up and the reporter who revealed it to the world

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Author: Lesley BlumeFormat: Paperback, 153mm x 234mm, 288 pagesPublished: Scribe Publications, United Kingdom, 2020A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES AND VANITY FAIR New York Times bestselling...
Photography in India: A Visual History from the 1850s to the Present

Photography in India: A Visual History from the 1850s to the Present

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Author: Nathaniel GaskellFormat: Hardback, 270mm x 240mm, 352 pagesPublished: Prestel, Germany, 2018This book follows the remarkable story of photography in India from the 1850s to today. India has one of...
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, Second Edition

Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, Second Edition

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Afghanistan: What Everyone Needs to Know (R)

Afghanistan: What Everyone Needs to Know (R)

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The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds

The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds

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Afghanistan: Mullah, Marx, And Mujahid

Afghanistan: Mullah, Marx, And Mujahid

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Japan's Southward Advance and Australia: From the Sixteenth Century to World War II

Japan's Southward Advance and Australia: From the Sixteenth Century to World War II

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Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century

Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century

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By now everyone knows the basic facts of China's rise to pre-eminence over the past three decades. But how did this erstwhile sleeping giant finally manage to arrive at its...
Destiny: The Secret Operations of the Yodog Exiles

Destiny: The Secret Operations of the Yodog Exiles

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Aung San Suu Kyi: Politician, Prisoner, Parent

Aung San Suu Kyi: Politician, Prisoner, Parent

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Author: Wendy Law-Yone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 POLITICIAN * PRISONER * PARENT A portrait of one of the most charismatic, but unknown, world leaders Aung San Suu Kyi,...
Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought

Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought

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How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in IndiaDuring the colonial period in India, European scholars, British officials, and...
The Invitation-Only Zone: The Extraordinary Story of North Korea's Abduction Project

The Invitation-Only Zone: The Extraordinary Story of North Korea's Abduction Project

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Author: Robert S. Boynton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 During the 1970s and early 80s, dozens - perhaps hundreds - of Japanese civilians were kidnapped by North Korean commandos...