Asian History

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew figures in modern history have commanded the moral authority and world-historical significance of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the precise moment when the fate of Asia hung in the balance, the Soviet Union manoeuvred with calculated precision across the...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedFor millennia, the I Ching — the ancient Chinese Book of Changes — has served as one of humanity's most enduring tools...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedAt the heart of one of the twentieth century's most turbulent geopolitical flashpoints stands a figure of towering...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodAt the crossroads of empire and commerce, The Ottoman City between East and West: Aleppo, Izmir, and Istanbul presents a groundbreaking comparative study of three of...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedLong before the age of satellites and GPS, a succession of daring, obsessive, and often eccentric Westerners risked everything to...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFrom the mist-shrouded slopes of Mount Fuji to the neon-lit corridors of modern Tokyo, Japan: The Story of a Nation...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the highland reaches of the Philippine Cordillera, where gold once drew the armored ambitions of Spanish conquistadors,...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the labyrinthine world of Philippine finance, power and plunder have long walked hand in hand — Booty...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of one of history's most overlooked narratives lies Serving the Chinese Labour Corps in France,...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBehind the gilded chrysanthemum curtain lies one of the world's most ancient and enigmatic institutions — the Japanese Imperial Household, a dynasty that traces its...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOn the morning of December 7, 1941, a date that would live in infamy, the skies above Pearl...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingLong before the modern world drew its borders, Iran's great cities rose and fell in cycles of splendour and conquest...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the crossroads of faith, power, and stone, Mamluk History Through Architecture presents a groundbreaking examination of one of the medieval world's most...

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Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew writers of the medieval Islamic world command the breadth, wit, and intellectual audacity of al-Jāḥiẓ, the ninth-century Arab polymath whose restless curiosity ranged...

The rapid urbanization of the Asian continent and transformation of its cityscapes have incited many professionals and scholars to pay urgent attention to the study of Asian streets and public...

Making Sense of the City is a collection of essays from scholars in the humanities and the social sciences examining the city within the Philippine context. With Metro Manila bursting...

The development of overseas Chinese communities, economically powerful, socially and culturally resistant to assimilation, and tied in many ways to China, has been a significant phenomenon in the modern history...

The book titled Crime, Society, and the State in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines by the author Greg Bankoff. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

The book titled The Origins of Metropolitan Manila by the author Manuel A Caoili. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

It is the story of mankind's deadliest discovery, in the words of those who were there. Their voices include the scientists who unravelled and then unleashed the secrets of the...

Perhaps no one in the twentieth century had a greater long-term impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. And no scholar of contemporary East Asian history and culture is better...

This account of Egyptian society in the reign of Muhammad Ali traces the beginnings of the nation state in Egypt. It considers Muhammad Ali as part of a social group...

Twenty years of headlong economic growth made the free marketeering Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) the world's fastest growing region from the 1960s to the 1980s. However, the...

In 1938, with the Japanese army approaching from Nanking, Huan Hsu's great-great grandfather, Liu, and his five granddaughters, were forced to flee their hometown on the banks of the Yangtze...

This book offers a complete and concise history of China from earliest times right up to the present day. The author explores the geographical, cultural and political facets which have...