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Nine-Tenths of the Law Enduring Dispossession in Indonesia
ISBN: PB: 9780300251074, Yale University Press, February 2021
264 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.
The old aphorism "possession is nine-tenths of the law" is particularly relevant in Indonesia, which has seen a string of regime changes and a shifting legal landscape for property claims. Ordinary people struggle to legalize their possessions and cl...
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£20,00
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Nonviolent Struggle for Indian Freedom, 1905-19
ISBN: HB: 9781849049702, Hurst Publishers, October 2018
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Much of the recent surge in writing about the practice of nonviolent forms of resistance has focused on movements that occurred after the end of the Second World War, many of which have been extremely successful. Although the f...
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£35,00
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Nightmarch Among India's Revolutionary Guerrillas
ISBN: HB: 9781849049900, Hurst Publishers, August 2018
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In one of the world's most intractable and under-reported rebellions, the Naxalites have been engaged in a decades-long battle with the Indian state. Presented in the media as a deadly terrorist group, the movement is made up o...
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North Korea's Hidden Revolution How the Information Underground is Transforming a Closed Society
ISBN: HB: 9780300217810, Yale University Press, February 2017
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.
The story of North Korea's information underground and how it inspires people to seek better lives beyond their country's borders One of the least understood countries in the world, North Korea has long been known for its repressive regime. Yet it is...
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£25,00
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Neither Donkey nor Horse Medicine in the Struggle over China's Modernity
ISBN: PB: 9780226379401, ISBN: HB: 9780226169880, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 1 line drawing
"Neither Donkey nor Horse" tells the story of how Chinese medicine was transformed from the antithesis of modernity in the early twentieth century into a potent symbol of and vehicle for China's exploration of its own modernity half a century later....
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£19,00
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£28,00
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New Kings of Crude China, India, and the Global Struggle for Oil in Sudan and South Sudan
ISBN: PB: 9781849042949, Hurst Publishers, January 2014
356 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The need for oil in Asia's new industrial powers, China and India, has grown dramatically. "The New Kings of Crude" takes the reader from the dusty streets of an African capital to Asia's glistening corporate towers to provide...
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£30,00
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Nucleus and Nation Scientists, International Networks, and Power in India
ISBN: HB: 9780226019758, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
736 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 map, 9 tables, 16 halftones
In 1974 India joined the elite roster of nuclear world powers when it exploded its first nuclear bomb. But the technological progress that facilitated that feat was set in motion many decades before, as India sought both independence from the British...
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£60,00
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