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History of Modern South Asia Politics, States, Diasporas
ISBN: PB: 9780300196948, Yale University Press, December 2015
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 23 black&white illus.
Noted historian Ian Talbot has written a new history of modern South Asia that considers the Indian Subcontinent in regional rather than in solely national terms. A leading expert on the Partition of 1947, Talbot focuses here on the combined history...
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£25,00
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For Dignity, Justice, and Revolution An Anthology of Japanese Proletarian Literature
ISBN: PB: 9780226068374, ISBN: HB: 9780226068367, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
488 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
Fiction created by and for the working class emerged worldwide in the early twentieth century as a response to rapid modernization, dramatic inequality, and imperial expansion. In Japan, literary youth, men and women, sought to turn their imagination...
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£22,00
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£70,00
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South China Sea The Struggle for Power in Asia
ISBN: PB: 9780300216943, Yale University Press, October 2015
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.
China's rise has upset the global balance of power, and the first place to feel the strain is Beijing's backyard: the South China Sea. For decades tensions have smouldered in the region, but today the threat of a direct confrontation among superpower...
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£12,99
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Great Perhaps? Colombia: Conflict and Convergence
ISBN: HB: 9781849046282, Hurst Publishers, October 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! No country has managed as rapid and positive a turnaround in governance and security conditions this century as Colombia. In 1999, FARC and ELN rebels were literally at the gates of Bogota, and Colombia was a country synonymous...
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£40,00
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Age of Transition Byzantine Culture in the Islamic World
ISBN: PB: 9780300211115, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2015
160 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 150 colour illus.
In 2012 the Metropolitan Museum of Art presented "Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition", a groundbreaking exhibition that explored the transformations and continuities in the Byzantine Empire from the 7th to the 9th century. During this time of his...
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£38,00
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Slaves of One Master Globalization and Slavery in Arabia in the Age of Empire
ISBN: HB: 9780300192018, Yale University Press, August 2015
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
Matthew S. Hopper's wide-ranging history of the African diaspora and slavery in Arabia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries examines the interconnected themes of enslavement, globalization, and empire, and challenges previously held conven...
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£54,00
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Partition The Long Shadow
ISBN: HB: 9789383074778, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2015
272 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 12 halftones
The Partition of British India into the nations of India and Pakistan in 1947 and the further redrawing of the borders in 1971 to create Bangladesh were major, wrenching events whose effects are still felt today in the everyday lives of people in all...
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£34,00
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Fragments of an Unfinished War Taiwanese Entrepreneurs and the Partition of China
ISBN: HB: 9781849044707, Hurst Publishers, August 2015
352 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The Republic of China that retreated to Taiwan in 1949 maintains its de facto, if not de jure, independence yet Beijing has consistently refused formally to abandon the idea of reunifying Taiwan with China. As well as growing m...
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£45,00
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Hungry Bengal War, Famine and the End of Empire
ISBN: HB: 9781849044318, Hurst Publishers, August 2015
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The years leading up to the independence and accompanying partition of India mark a tumultuous period in the history of Bengal. Representing both a major front in the Indian struggle against colonial rule, as well as a crucial...
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£30,00
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Making Modern Japanese-Style Painting Kano Hogai and the Search for Images
ISBN: HB: 9780226110806, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
296 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 34 colour plates, 70 halftones
The Western discovery of Japanese paintings at nineteenth-century world's fairs and export shops catapulted Japanese art to new levels of international popularity. With that popularity, however, came criticism, as Western writers began to lament a pe...
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£52,00
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