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Based on a decade of research and on interviews with many of Mao’s close circle in China who have never talked before--and with virtually everyone outsid...

K.n. Chaudhuri. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 252-262.Categories: HistoryMiddle East

a Remarkable Achievement...vivid...fluent, Graceful.... A Publishing Event.—boston Globe new York Times monumental.... History That Is Always Lively, Alway...

segal, Who Wrote This To Supplement His the Black Diaspora, Is A Cultural Historian, Not A Specialist In Islamic History. He Is An Authority On The Subject...

In this comparative, interdisciplinary study based on extensive fieldwork as well as historical sources, Janet Sturgeon examines the different trajectories ...

Fosco Maraini Visited Tibet In 1937 And Again In 1948. In 1951 He Published Secret Tibet, An Account That Was A Synthesis Of The Two Journeys. After An Inte...

Product Description Tokyo Junkie is a memoir that plays out over the dramatic 60-year growth of the megacity Tokyo, once a dark, fetid backwater and no...

A personal memoir of the war in Vietnam, in which the author first served as a Marine and which he later covered as a reporterCategories: Engineering & ...

Beginning in the late '60s, hundreds of thousands of Westerners descended upon India, disciples of a cultural revolution that proclaimed that the magic and ...

Depicts the efforts of four people to improve the harsh conditions of life in the impoverished and over-populated area of Calcutta, IndiaCategories: Politic...

An Account Of Japanese Culture And Society From Earliest Times To The Present Day. Chronological Table -- Origins. The Geography Of Japan -- The Archaeologi...

A powerful reassessment of a seminal moment in the history of India and the British Empire—the Amritsar Massacre—to mark its 100th anniversary The Amri...

In the eighteenth century, India’s share of the world economy was as large as Europe’s. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased ...

In the museums of Ürümchi, the windswept regional capital of the Uyghur Autonomous Region (also known as Chinese Turkestan), a collection of ancient mummie...

The author, a former Special Secretary of India's external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), examines a series of interconnect...

A history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in mid-nineteenth-century China profiles a period of extreme violence, during which a massive uprising, led by rel...

Introduction: A Generation Revisited -- Long Time Passing -- Two Soldiers -- The Generation -- A Different War -- Southie And The Rebels -- Draft And Protes...

Jonathan D. Spence. Elisabeth Sifton Books. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 319-337.Categories: History AsiaChina

Japan To 1600 Surveys Japanese Historical Development From The First Evidence Of Human Habitation In The Archipelago To The Consolidation Of Political Power...

The Subaltern Studies Collective, Founded In 1982, Was Begun With The Goal Of Developing A New Critique Of Both Colonialist And Nationalist Perspectives In ...

This Book Is The Second Edition Of The Author's History Of Modern China. The New Discussions In This Revision Include The Extension Of Imperial Power Into C...

Prologue: Our Title To India -- Empire At War -- Harvesting The Colonies -- Scorched -- At Any Price -- Death Of A Thousand Cuts -- An Occupied And Starving...

Author D.r. Sardesai Presents The History Of India In Its Entire Civilizational Depth. Using An Indiacentric, As Opposed To Eurocentric, Approach, Sardesai ...

Saya S. Shiraishi. Southeast Asia Program Publications. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [169]-183)Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Anthrop...

A collection of combat photographs from the Korean War celebrates the fortieth anniversary of the conflict, capturing the courage and grim determination of ...

Prologue: The Boxer Catastrophe -- An Old World Dies; A New One Is Born -- The Slide Into Chaos -- Forming A New Culture: The May Fourth Movement -- Which W...

Born Into A Wealthy, Politically Influential Indian Family In The Waning Years Of The Raj, Jawaharlal Nehru Was Raised, Under His Father's Careful Guidance,...

Archaeology of East Asia constitutes an introduction to social and political development from the Palaeolithic to 8th-century early historic times. It takes...

This book is the first major reassessment of ancient Chinese religion to appear in recent years. It provides a historical investigation of broadly shared r...

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...

Angela Ki Che Leung's meticulous study begins with the classical annals of the imperial era, which contain the first descriptions of a feared and stigmatize...

Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders, captured by the Japanese in Singapore. Forced into manual labor as a POW, he survived 750 days i...