Asia

By David Kidd.Categories: History AsiaChina

This is a straightforward narrative of the development of Japanese civilization from 1334 to 1615 by the author of Japan: A Short Cultural History. While c...

A Detailed Narrative Of The Thirteen Months Leading To The Independence Of The Indian Subcontinent In February 1948, Centering On Major And Minor Figures An...

David Pryce-jones Believes That France Has Done More Damage To The Middle East Than Any Other Country, Backing Yasser Arafat And The Palestinian Cause, Supp...

Today’s most highly regarded writer on Indian food gives us an enchanting memoir of her childhood in Delhi in an age and a society that has since disa...

The new York Times Bestselling Author Of 1421 Offers Another Stunning Reappraisal Of History, Presenting Compelling New Evidence That Traces The Roots ...

How climate change ushered in the collapse of one of history’s mighty empires\In 1644, after close to three centuries of relative stability and prosperity...

WINNER OF THE 2020 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR NONFICTION\“Wondrously and elegantly written in language that astonishes and moves the reader…T...

This Rich Gathering Of Primary-source Documents Puts Students In Direct Contact With The Major Characters And Events In Modern Chinese History. Revised To R...

The gripping true story of the murder, in Palestine in 1947, of a Jewish activist by a British counter-terrorist officer, and the subsequent cover-up. In Ma...

A New York Times bestseller, the shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean political prison to have escaped and survived. Blaine Harde...

The Pacific Profiles series presents the most accurate WWII aircraft profiles to date of Japanese & Allied aircraft in the Pacific theater.Volume Two il...

The classic Vietnam memoir, as relevant today as it was almost thirty years ago. In March of 1965, Marine Lieutenent Philip J. Caputo landed at Da Nang ...

In this New York Times bestseller, award-winning combat reporter Sean Naylor reveals how close American forces came to disaster in Afghanistan against Al ...

Japan: Geographical Background to Urban Industrial DevelopmentCategories: History AsiaJapan

From the author of Pacific Payback, the true story of how a patchwork band of aviators saved Guadalcanal during WWII.November 1942: Japanese and American f...

This beautifully photographed travel pictorial captures the people, art, architecture, food and landscapes of the Philippines. The Philippine Archipelago w...

The Artist Under Fire / By Sherry Buchanan -- On The Road -- In The Trenches -- Going Home. Pham Thanh Tam ; Edited By Sherry Buchanan. Includes Bibliograph...

Burmese design, heavily influenced by its proximity to China and India, is a many-layered thing, interwoven with spiritual, religious and political messages...

Balinese Art Is The First Comprehensive Survey Of Balinese Painting From Its Origins To Its Present Place At The Forefront Of The Asian Art Scene. It May Be...

"What gives From the Ruins of Empire its charm and richness of texture is that its main focus is not on major players such as Gandhi and Mao, but on two li...

Today The Word 'shtetl' (yiddish For 'small Town') Summons Only Hazy, Distant Associations: Images Of Chagall-like Crooked Streets And Glowing Sabbath Dinne...

Certain conjunctions of time and place exert a special fascination--Paris in the twenties, turn-of-the-century Vienna, Weimar Berlin. Tokyo in the years bet...

Tony Banham. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [285]-287) And Index.Categories: History EuropeGreat Britain

God's Samurai is the unusual story of Mitsuo Fuchida, the career aviator who led the attack on Pearl Harbor and participated in most of the fiercest battle...

Text: English, Japanese (translation)Categories: Politics & Social SciencesPolitics & Government

Thousands of wounded servicemen returned to Japan following the escalation of Japanese military aggression in China in July 1937. Tens of thousands would re...

Examining The Interplay Between Political Apology And Apologetic History Alexis Dudden Focuses On The Problematic Relationship Among Japanese Imperialists, ...

available For The First Time In Paperback, This Study Examines How This Ideology Evolved. Carol Gluck Argues That The Process Of Formulating And Communicat...

The Institute of Pacific Relations was a pioneering intellectual-political organization that shaped public knowledge and both elite and popular discourse th...

The United States' involvement in World War II began with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. But for Japan, the conflict began at a m...

Winner Of The National Book Critics Circle Award An American Book Award Finalist Now In Paperback, War Without Mercy Has Been Hailed By The New York Times A...

Contributors To This Volume Suggest That While The Ideological And Political Trends In Pre-world War Ii Japan Had Local Roots And Peculiar Characteristics, ...

Uses Factual Accounts, Short Stories, Photographs, Poems And Drawings To Present The Experiences Of The Atom Bomb SurvivorsCategories: Education & Teach...

Unconditional Defeat - the second book in a Pacific War trilogy that is part of SR Books' Total War series - examines the concluding stages of World War II...

Japanese Imperialism : Late Mejji Perspectives / Marius B. Jansen -- Japanese Attitudes Toward Colonialism, 1895-1945 / Mark R. Peattie -- Economic Dimensio...

Joseph Kitagawa, one of the founders of the field of history of religions and an eminent scholar of the religions of Japan, published his classic book Rel...

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original...

"[The Book of] Revelation has served as a "language arsenal" in a great many of the social, cultural, and political conflicts in Western history. Again ...

'meticulously Researched And Beautifully Written, The True Story Of A Japanese American Family That Found Itself On Opposite Sides During World War Ii--an E...

The tragic true story of Japan's Crown Princess-with a new afterword by the author. It's the fantasy of many young women: marry a handsome prince, move i...

A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present, Fourth Edition, paints a richly nuanced and strikingly original portrait of the last two cent...

With clarity and logic, George Ostrogorsky succinctly traces the intricate thousand-year course of the Byzantine Empire. While his emphasis is on political...

Brigitte Gabriel. Includes Bibliographical References.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Government Specific TopicsTerrorism

A Narrative Account Of The Relationship Between The U.s. And China From The Revolutionary War To The Present Day. Our Relationship With China Remains One Of...

From the beloved, internationally bestselling author of Wild Swans, and co-author of the bestselling Mao: The Unknown Story, the dramatic, epic biography of...

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times • The Washi...

Tetsuya Kataoka. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Government International & Worl...