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Geocultural Power China's Quest to Revive the Silk Roads for the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: PB: 9780226658353, ISBN: HB: 9780226658216, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 maps, 11 line drawings
Launched in 2013, China's Belt and Road Initiative is forging connections in infrastructure, trade, energy, finance, tourism, and culture across Eurasia and Africa. This extraordinarily ambitious strategy places China at the center of a geography of...
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£22,00
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£64,00
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Singapore, Singapura From Miracle to Complacency
ISBN: HB: 9781787380103, Hurst Publishers, August 2018
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Modern Singapore is a miracle. Half a century ago, it was thrown out of the Malay Federation and unwillingly became an independent nation. It was tiny, poor, almost devoid of resources, and in a hostile neighbourhood. Now, this...
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£20,00
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Reporting the Retreat War Correspondents in Burma, 1942
ISBN: HB: 9781849047173, Hurst Publishers, February 2017
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The British defeat in Burma at the hands of the Japanese in 1942 precipitated the longest retreat in British military history and the onset of its most drawn-out campaign of World War II. It also marked the beginning of the end...
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£20,00
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Famine Politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union
ISBN: HB: 9780300195811, Yale University Press, September 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.
During the twentieth century, 80 percent of all famine victims worldwide died in China and the Soviet Union. In this rigorous and thoughtful study, Felix Wemheuer analyzes the historical and political roots of these socialist era famines, in which ov...
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£50,00
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Unmaking North and South Cartographies of the Yemeni Past
ISBN: PB: 9781850659815, Hurst Publishers, December 2012
276 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Unmaking North and South" revisits the Yemeni past by situating the historical construction of Yemen's north and south as bounded political, social, and moral spaces in the broader context of imperial rule, state formation, an...
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£50,00
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