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Great Game East India, China, and the Struggle for Asia's Most Volatile Frontier

Lintner Bertil

ISBN: HB: 9780300195675, Yale University Press, June 2015
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 34 black&white illus.

Since the 1950s, China and India have been locked in a monumental battle for geopolitical supremacy. Chinese interest in the ethnic insurgencies in northeastern India, the still unresolved issue of the McMahon Line, the border established by the Brit...

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Burma's Spring Real Lives in Turbulent Times

Russell Rosalind

ISBN: PB: 9786167339559, Prestel Publishing, River Books, March 2015
200 pp., 20.8x14.4 cm

Burma's Spring documents the struggles of ordinary people made extraordinary by circumstance. Rosalind Russell, a British journalist who came to live in Burma with her family, witnessed a time of unprecedented change in a secretive country that had b...

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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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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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