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External Mission The ANC in Exile, 1960-1990

Ellis Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9781849045063, Hurst Publishers, March 2015
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Nelson Mandela's release from prison in February 1990 was one of the most memorable moments of recent decades. It came a few days after the unbanning of the African National Congress following thirty years during which the ANC...

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Revolutionary History of Interwar India Violence, Image, Voice and Text

Maclean Kama

ISBN: PB: 9781849043328, Hurst Publishers, March 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Focussing on the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army (HSRA), "A Revolutionary History" delivers a fresh perspective on the ambitions, ideologies and practices of this influential organisation, formed by Chandrashekhar Azad and...

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Literary Criticism

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Crafting of the 10,000 Things Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-Century China

Schafer Dagmar

ISBN: PB: 9780226272801, ISBN: HB: 9780226735849, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
352 pp., 22.9x16.3 cm, 24 halftones, 1 line illus.

The last decades of the Ming dynasty, though plagued by chaos and destruction, saw a significant increase of publications that examined advances in knowledge and technology. Among the numerous guides and reference books that appeared during this peri...

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Battles of the New Republic A Contemporary History of Nepal

Jha Prashant

ISBN: PB: 9781849044592, Hurst Publishers, January 2015
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Battles of The New Republic" tells the story of Nepal's transformation from war to peace, monarchy to republic, a Hindu kingdom to a secular state, and a unitary to a potentially federal state. Simultaneously historical analy...

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China-Pakistan Axis Asia's New Geopolitics

Small Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9781849043410, Hurst Publishers, January 2015
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Beijing-Islamabad axis plays a central role in Asia's geopolitics, from India's rise to the prospects for a post-American Afghanistan, from the threat of nuclear terrorism to the continent's new map of mines, ports and pipe...

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Into the Kazakh Steppe John Castle's Mission to Khan Abulkhayir (1736)

Teissier Beatrice

ISBN: PB: 9781909930087, Signal Books, December 2014
208 pp., 21.8x14 cm

For sale in CIS only! The adventurer and artist John Castle, of mixed British and Prussian descent, was one of several foreigners commissioned by the Russian Empire to take part in the Orenburg Expedition which started in 1734. Its aims were to secu...

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History of Art

Asia

Museum on the Roof of the World Art, Politics, and the Representation of Tibet

Harris Clare E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226213170, ISBN: HB: 9780226317472, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
328 pp., 25x17.8 cm, 19 colour plates, 50 halftones, 1 line illus.

For millions of people around the world, Tibet is a domain of undisturbed tradition, the Dalai Lama a spiritual guide. By contrast, the Tibet Museum opened in Lhasa by the Chinese in 1999 was designed to reclassify Tibetan objects as cultural relics...

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Women Studies

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Famine Politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union

Wemheuer Felix

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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Shanghai Future Modernity Remade

Greenspan Anna

ISBN: PB: 9781849043601, ISBN: HB: 9781849043274, Hurst Publishers, September 2014
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! China is in the midst of the fastest and most intense process of urbanisation the world has ever known, and Shanghai – its biggest, richest and most cosmopolitan city – is positioned for acceleration into the twenty-first centu...

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Destruction of Hyderabad

Noorani A. G.

ISBN: HB: 9781849044394, Hurst Publishers, August 2014
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The fascinating story of the fall of the Indian princely state of Hyderabad has till now been dominated by the "court historians" of Indian nationalism. In this book A. G. Noorani offers a revisionist account of the Indian Army...

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