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Red Blossoms: A Story Of Western India
$30.00 AUD
Author: Isabel Brown RoseBinding: HardbackPublished: THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETYCondition:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThis captivating historical novel, Red Blossoms: A Story Of Western India, transports readers to the...
Nomad: A Year In The Life Of A Qashqa'I Tribesman In Iran
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Author: Lois BeckBinding: PaperbackPublished: University of California Press, 1991Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageNomad: A Year In The Life Of A Qashqai...
Japan At War: An Oral History: An Oral History
A "deeply moving book" (Studs Terkel) and the first ever oral history to document the experience of ordinary Japanese people during World War II "Hereafter no one will be able...
The Genius Of Arab Civilization: Source Of Renaissance
$20.00 AUD
Author: John R. Hayes, EditorBinding: PaperbackPublished: Eurabia (Publishing) Ltd, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis scholarly work, The Genius Of Arab Civilization:...
The Travels Of Marco Polo; The Venetian
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Author: Marco Polo (with an introduction by John Masefield; fully illustrated by Adrian de Friston)Binding: HardbackPublished: J.M. Dent, London, 1929Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedMarkings:...
The Green Archipelago: Forestry in Preindustrial Japan
This inaugural volume in the Ohio University Press Series in Ecology and History is the paperback edition of Conrad Totman's widely acclaimed study of Japan's environmental policies over the centuries....
Mao Tse-Tung: The Chinese Revolution And The Chinese Communist Party
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Author: Mao Tse-TungBinding: HardbackPublished: Foreign Language Press , 1954Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Previous owner inscription front end page, pen marking...
Virtual Tibet: Searching for Shangri-La from the Himalayas to
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The Dalai Lama meets The Player-from the Himalayas to Hollywood, a fantastic journey into the West's longstanding dream of Tibet. What has made remote, mountainous Tibet and its only real...
The Tyranny of History: Roots of China's Crisis
Based on a series of lectures given by Professor Jenner in New Zealand shortly after Tiananmen square, this book examines the peculiarity of Chinese history, and of the unique burden...
Secret War in Shanghai
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Shanghai during World War II was a killing field of brutal competition, ideological struggle, and murderous political intrigue. China's largest and most cosmopolitan city, the intelligence capital of the Far...
Ancient Arts Of Central Asia
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Author: Tamara Talbot RiceBinding: HardbackPublished: Thames and Hudson, 1965Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis authoritative volume presents a comprehensive survey of the rich artistic heritage spanning...
In Search Of Gandhi
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Author: Richard AttenboroughBinding: HardbackPublished: The Bodley Head., 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis compelling narrative chronicles Richard Attenborough's monumental quest to bring the life of Mahatma Gandhi to...
The Chinese Love Pavilion
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Author: Paul ScottBinding: HardbackPublished: Heinemann., 1967Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsPaul Scott's The Chinese Love Pavilion presents a compelling literary...
Indian Diary: 1952-53
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Author: Edward ArdizzoneBinding: HardbackPublished: Bodley Head., 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Top-edge discoloured from tanning. Indian Diary: 1952-53 chronicles Edward Ardizzone's vivid impressions and personal...
The Politics Of Bhutan: Retrospect And Prospect
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Author: ParmanandBinding: HardbackPublished: Pragati Publications, 1992Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis academic work presents a comprehensive analysis of Bhutan's political evolution. It chronicles the kingdom's unique historical trajectory,...
Middle East Garden Traditions: Unity And Diversity
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Author: Michel ConanBinding: PaperbackPublished: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2007Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Worn and rubbed spine....
Making Chinese Australia: Urban Elites, Newspapers &
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The Chinese press was the largest foreign-language press in Sydney over the late nineteenth century, and the only foreign-language press to publish without interruption from the 1890s into the 1920s....
Red Friends: Internationalists in China's Struggle for Liberation
China's resistance to Imperial Japan was the other great internationalist cause of the 'red 1930s', along with the Spanish Civil War. These desperate and bloody struggles were personified in the...
The Seasons of Trouble: Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka's Civil War
For three decades, Sri Lanka's civil war tore communities apart. In 2009, the Sri Lankan army finally defeated the separatist Tamil Tigers guerrillas in a fierce battle that swept up...
The Maoism of PRC History: Against Dominant Trends in Anglophone
Contributors to this special issue investigate the current state of People's Republic of China (PRC) history, positing that the methods Anglophone, non-Chinese scholars have developed and deployed over the last...
Korea: Division, Reunification and U.S.Foreign Policy
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An introduction to the causes and consequences of the Korean War, this history seeks to challenge presumptions about Korea favoured by American politicians and network news pundits. Through a judicious...
Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India
A dogged enemy of Hitler, resolute ally of the Americans, and inspiring leader through World War II, Winston Churchill is venerated as one of the truly great statesmen of the...
The Huawei Model: The Rise of China's Technology Giant
In 2019, the United States' trade war with China expanded to blacklist the Chinese tech titan Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. The resulting attention showed the information and communications technology (ICT)...
Falun Gong and the Future of China
On April 25, 1999, ten thousand Falun Gong practitioners gathered outside Zhongnanhai, the guarded compound where China's highest leaders live and work, in a day-long peaceful protest of police brutality...
Red at Heart: How Chinese Communists Fell in Love with the Russian
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Red at Heart conjures a tale of cross-cultural romance from a topic that is normally seen in geopolitical or ideological terms--and thereby offers a new interpretation of twentieth century communism's...
Connected History: Essays and Arguments
Sanjay Subrahmanyam is becoming well known for the same sort of reasons that attach to Fernand Braudel and Carlo Ginzburg, as the proponent of a new kind of history -...
The Panthay Rebellion: Islam, Ethnicity and the Dali Sultanate in
The Panthay Rebellion of 1856-1873 held the armies of the Qing dynasty at bay for nearly two decades. This account by David Atwill offers a remarkable panorama of the cosmopolitan...
Gwangju Uprising: The Rebellion for Democracy in South Korea
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On 18th May 1980, student activists gathered in the South Korean city of Gwangju to protest the coup d'etat and martial law government of General Chun Doo-hwan. The security forces...
Travellers in the Golden Realm: How Mughal India Connected England to
Shortlisted for The British in India Book Prize 2025 'A spellbinding account of the first forgotten half of the English encounter with India with a fascinating history of the Mughal...
1368: China and the Making of the Modern World
A new picture of China's rise since the Age of Exploration and its historical impact on the modern world. The establishment of the Great Ming dynasty in 1368 was a...
Memory Construction and the Politics of Time in Neoliberal South Korea
In Memory Construction and the Politics of Time in Neoliberal South Korea Namhee Lee explores memory construction and history writing in post-1987 South Korea. The massive neoliberal reconstruction of all...
Dreams of Flight: The Lives of Chinese Women Students in the West
In Dreams of Flight , Fran Martin explores how young Chinese women negotiate competing pressures on their identity while studying abroad. On one hand, unmarried middle-class women in the single-child...
Mao's Bestiary: Medicinal Animals and Modern China
Controversy over the medicinal uses of wild animals in China has erupted around the ethics and efficacy of animal-based drugs, the devastating effect of animal farming on wildlife conservation, and...
Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era
In Utopian Ruins Jie Li traces the creation, preservation, and elision of memories about China's Mao era by envisioning a virtual museum that reckons with both its utopian yearnings and...
China in the World: Culture, Politics, and World Vision
In China in the World , Ban Wang traces the evolution of modern China from the late nineteenth century to the present. With a focus on tensions and connections between...
Revisiting Women's Cinema: Feminism, Socialism, and Mainstream Culture
In Revisiting Women's Cinema , Lingzhen Wang ponders the roots of contemporary feminist stagnation and the limits of both commercial mainstream and elite minor cultures by turning to socialist women...
Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture
In Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture , Alessandro Russo presents a dramatic new reading of China's Cultural Revolution as a mass political experiment aimed at thoroughly reexamining the tenets of...
The End of Concern: Maoist China, Activism, and Asian Studies
In 1968 a cohort of politically engaged young academics established the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars (CCAS). Critical of the field of Asian studies and its complicity with the United...
The Magic of Concepts: History and the Economic in Twentieth-Century
In The Magic of Concepts Rebecca E. Karl interrogates "the economic" as concept and practice as it was construed historically in China in the 1930s and again in the 1980s...
The Sublime Perversion of Capital: Marxist Theory and the Politics of
In The Sublime Perversion of Capital Gavin Walker examines the Japanese debate about capitalism between the 1920s and 1950s, using it as a "prehistory" to consider current discussions of uneven...
Red Silk: Class, Gender, and Revolution in China's Yangzi Delta Silk
Red Silk is a history of China's Yangzi Delta silk industry during the wars, crises, and revolutions of the mid-twentieth century. Based on extensive research in Chinese archives and focused...
The Eastern Origins of Western Civilisation
John Hobson challenges the ethnocentric bias of mainstream accounts of the Rise of the West. It is often assumed that since Ancient Greek times Europeans have pioneered their own development,...
Revisiting Minjung: New Perspectives on the Cultural History of 1980s
$60.00 AUD
An epoch-marking alliance of laborers, students, dissident intellectuals, and ordinary citizens was at the heart of South Korea's transformation from a dictatorship into a vibrant democracy during the 1980s. Collectively...
The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics
In roughly five decades, between 1848 and 1899, more gold was removed from the earth than had been mined in the 3,000 preceding years, bringing untold wealth to individuals and...
The Mongols: A Very Short Introduction
In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the Mongols carved out the largest land-based empire in world history, stretching from Korea to Russia in the north and from China to Syria...
The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction
The phrase "silk road" evokes vivid scenes of merchants leading camel caravans across vast stretches to trade exotic goods in glittering Oriental bazaars, of pilgrims braving bandits and frozen mountain...
Gandhi
`I wanted to avoid violence. Non-violence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.' Speech at Shahi Bag, 1922 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi...
The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and
The most important book published about India for many years, and a No. 1 bestseller in India. Staggering reception, including- India is a very diverse country with many distinct pursuits,...