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  • The First Afghan War 1839–42

    Invasion, catastrophe and retreat

    par Professor Richard Macrory Hon KC ...
    Collections Livre 298 - Campaign
    A highly illustrated study of the First Afghan War, a bitter setback for British forces in the Great Game played out in the 19th century.In 1839 forces of the British East India Company crossed the Indus to invade Afghanistan on the pretext of reinstating a former king Shah Soojah to his rightful throne. The reality was that this was another step in Britain's Great Game – Afghanistan would create ... En savoir plus

    $21.19 CAD

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  • Soldier Sahibs

    par Charles Allen ...
    This text retells the story of a brotherhood of young men who together laid claim to one of the most notorious frontiers in the world: India's north-west frontier, which in the late 1990s forms the volatile boundary between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Known collectively as Henry Lawrence's Young Men, each had distinguished himself in the East India Company's wars in the Punjab in the 1840s before ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • India

    A Short History

    par Andrew Robinson ...
    Collections series A Short History
    India’s unfolding story, from the ancient Hindu dynasties to the coming of Islam, from the Mughal Empire to the present dayIndia has always been a land of great contradictions. To Alexander the Great, the country was a place of clever naked philosophers and massive armies mounted on elephants – which eventually forced his army to retreat. To ancient Rome, it was a source of luxuries, mainly spices ... En savoir plus

    $17.49 CAD

  • Princely India and the British

    Political Development and the Operation of Empire

    par Caroline Keen ...
    In the latter part of the nineteenth century,the royal status of Indian princes was under threat in what became a critical period of transition from traditional to imperial rule.Weakened by treaties concluded with the British earlier in the century,the rulers were subject to a concentrated campaign by British officials to turn palace life into a westernised construct of morality,rules and ... En savoir plus

    $49.69 CAD

  • Japanese Imperialism, 1894-1945

    par W. G. Beasley ...
    Collections series Clarendon Paperbacks
    This is a study of the origins and nature of Japanese imperialism from the Sino-Japanese war of 1894-1895 through to 1945. Japan is the only Asian country in modern times to have built both a successful industrial economy and an empire, and it is Professor Beasley's contention that these two phenomena are closely related. Japan's aims were influenced by its experience of western imperialism and ... En savoir plus

    $47.99 CAD

  • Gender and Violence in British India

    The Road to Amritsar, 1914-1919

    par R. McLain ...
    Collections series History (R0)
    In British India, the years during and following World War I saw imperial unity deteriorate into a bitter dispute over "native" effeminacy and India's postwar fitness for self-rule. This study demonstrates that increasingly ferocious dispute culminated in the actual physical violence of the Amritsar Massacre of 1919. ... En savoir plus

    $64.09 CAD

  • The Chinese Diaspora in South-East Asia

    The Overseas Chinese in IndoChina

    par Tracy C. Barrett ...
    As Qing Dynasty China disintegrated, economic hardship and civil disorder led to millions of Chinese men and women seeking their fortunes abroad, many journeying south into French Indochina. These emigres settled into tight-knit communities called huiguan: organisations which closely mirrored the religious, social and economic constitution of their own places of origin. Here, Tracy Barrett sheds ... En savoir plus

    $199.79 CAD

  • Sympathy and India in British Literature, 1770-1830

    par A. Rudd ...
    Collections series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    India was the object of intense sympathetic concern during the Romantic period. But what was the true nature of imaginative engagement with British India? This study explores how a range of authors, from Edmund Burke and Sir William Jones to Robert Southey and Thomas Moore, sought to come to terms with India's strangeness and distance from Britain. ... En savoir plus

    $64.09 CAD

  • Epidemics in Modern Asia

    par Robert Peckham ...
    Collections series New Approaches to Asian History
    Epidemics have played a critical role in shaping modern Asia. Encompassing two centuries of Asian history, Robert Peckham explores the profound impact that infectious disease has had on societies across the region: from India to China and the Russian Far East. The book tracks the links between biology, history, and geopolitics, highlighting infectious disease's interdependencies with empire, ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • After the Empires

    The Dissolution of Foreign Powers and the Creation of New States in East Asia

    par P. Preston ...
    Collections series History (R0)
    The shift to the modern world in East Asia was accomplished in part via the experience of colonial rule in the late nineteenth century. Following imperial crisis in the 1930s and 1940s, independent nation states formed from which the political structure of East Asia is based today. ... En savoir plus

    $64.09 CAD

  • Bangladesh

    A Political History since Independence

    par Ali Riaz ...
    Bangladesh is a country of paradoxes. The eighth most populous country of the world, it has attracted considerable attention from the international media and western policy-makers in recent years, often for the wrong reasons: corruption, natural disasters caused by its precarious geographical location, and volatile political situations with several military coups, following its independence from ... En savoir plus

    $199.79 CAD

  • Race, Religion and Law in Colonial India

    Trials of an Interracial Family

    par Chandra Mallampalli ...
    Collections Livre 19 - Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society
    How did British rule in India transform persons from lower social classes? Could Indians from such classes rise in the world by marrying Europeans and embracing their religion and customs? This book explores such questions by examining the intriguing story of an interracial family who lived in southern India in the mid-nineteenth century. The family, which consisted of two untouchable brothers, ... En savoir plus

    $43.19 CAD