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In the Dragon's Shadow Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century
ISBN: HB: 9780300234039, Yale University Press, August 2020
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 25 colour illus., 4 maps
Today, Southeast Asia stands uniquely exposed to the waxing power of the new China. Three of its nations border China and five are directly impacted by its claims over the South China Sea. All dwell in the lengthening shadow of its influence: economi...
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£20,00
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Tea War A History of Capitalism in China and India
ISBN: HB: 9780300243734, Yale University Press, June 2020
360 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 25 black&white illus.
Tea remains the world's most popular commercial drink today, and at the turn of the twentieth century, it represented the largest export industry of both China and colonial India. In analyzing the global competition between Chinese and Indian tea, An...
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£35,00
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Urban Hunters Dealing and Dreaming in Times of Transition
ISBN: HB: 9780300196115, Yale University Press, January 2020
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 28 black&white illus.
"Urban Hunters" is an ethnography of the Mongolian capital city, Ulaanbaatar, during the nation's transition from socialism to a market-based economic system. Following the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991, Mongolia entered a period of economic chaos...
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£65,00
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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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People Next Door The Curious History of India's Relations with Pakistan
ISBN: HB: 9781787380196, Hurst Publishers, October 2019
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This book traces the seven decades of the India-Pakistan relationship since the bloody partition of the subcontinent in 1947. Events, anecdotes and personalities drive its narrative to illustrate the cocktail of hostility, nati...
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£20,00
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Costliest Pearl China's Struggle for India's Ocean
ISBN: HB: 9781849049962, Hurst Publishers, October 2019
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The Indian Ocean's strategic importance to China cannot be underestimated, given the oil, African minerals and container traffic that pass through it. Yet, until now, China has been absent from the region since Admiral Zheng He...
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£25,00
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Dangerous Outcast The Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century Bengal
ISBN: PB: 9780857426154, Seagull Books, September 2019
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
"Dangerous Outcast" traces prostitution in Bengal from precolonial times through the arrival of the British, examining how the profession was reordered to suit British desires. Drawing on nineteenth-century popular and folk culture, Sumanta Banerjee...
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£25,00
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Parlour and the Street Elite and Popular Culture in Nineteenth-Century Calcutta
ISBN: PB: 9780857426178, Seagull Books, September 2019
272 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
In this book, Sumanta Banerjee analyzes the development of the folk culture of Calcutta's urban poor following the establishment of the British colonial system in Bengal. Consisting primarily of traditional artisans who migrated from neighboring vill...
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£25,00
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Past as Present Forging Contemporary Identities Through History
ISBN: HB: 9780857426444, Seagull Books, September 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Nations need identities. These are created from perceptions of how societies have evolved. In this, history plays a central role. Insisting on reliable history is therefore crucial to more than just a pedagogic cause. Delicate relationships between...
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£20,00
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Red Flags Why Xi's China Is in Jeopardy
ISBN: PB: 9780300246636, Yale University Press, August 2019
248 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
<p>Under President Xi Jinping, China has become a large and confident power both at home and abroad, but the country also faces serious challenges. In this critical take on China's future, economist George Magnus explores four key traps that Chin...
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£11,99
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