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  • A History of Early Modern Southeast Asia, 1400–1830

    de Barbara Watson Andaya, Leonard Y. Andaya ...
    Written by two experienced teachers with a long history of research, this textbook provides students with a detailed overview of developments in early modern Southeast Asia, when the region became tightly integrated into the world economy because of international demand for its unique forest and sea products. Proceeding chronologically, each chapter covers a specific time frame in which Southeast ... Leer más

    $45.99 USD

  • A History of Malaysia

    de Barbara Watson Andaya, Leonard Y. Andaya ...
    First published in 1982, this text is widely regarded as a leading general history of the country. This new and revised edition brings the story of this fascinating country up to date, incorporating the latest scholarship on every period of Malaysian history, including recent research into pre-modern times. This text thus provides a historical framework that helps explain the roots of the issues ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

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    Bush Wars, The

    A Collection of Letters

    de Barbara Watson ...
    Narrado por Gavin Bruce ...

    Completo

    10 hora 27 minutos

    This is a book of letters between a soldier, RIP, and his family and friends during the wars with Iraq, first with President George H. W. Bush, then with George W. Bush - the “Bush Wars”.When RIP first deployed for Desert Storm, his baby daughter, Vicky, was three months old. RIP wrote heartfelt letters to her for posterity, not knowing if he’d get to see her grow up but wanting to tell her of his ... Leer más

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  • Cambodia's Curse

    The Modern History of a Troubled Land

    de Joel Brinkley ...
    A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist describes how Cambodia emerged from the harrowing years when a quarter of its population perished under the Khmer Rouge.A generation after genocide, Cambodia seemed on the surface to have overcome its history -- the streets of Phnom Penh were paved; skyscrapers dotted the skyline. But under this façe lies a country still haunted by its years of terror.Although ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • The Sacred Willow

    Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family

    de Mai Elliott ...
    A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Duong Van Mai Elliott's The Sacred Willow illuminates recent Vietnamese history by weaving together the stories of the lives of four generations of her family. Beginning with her great-grandfather, who rose from rural poverty to become an influential landowner, and continuing to the present, Mai Elliott traces her family's journey through an era of tumultuous ... Leer más

    $17.09 USD

  • The Private World of Ottoman Women

    de Godfrey Goodwin ...
    Series Libro 2 - Saqi Essentials
    Recovering the oft-neglected role of women in Ottoman high society and power politics, this book brings to life the women who made their mark in a male domain. Though historical records tend to favour the glitter of palaces over the trials of daily life, Goodwin also reconstructs ordinary women's domestic toil. As the Ottoman Empire first expanded and then shrank, women travelled its width and ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A History of the Vietnamese

    de K. W. Taylor ...
    The history of Vietnam prior to the nineteenth century is rarely examined in any detail. In this groundbreaking work, K. W. Taylor takes up this challenge, addressing a wide array of topics from the earliest times to the present day - including language, literature, religion, and warfare - and themes - including Sino-Vietnamese relations, the interactions of the peoples of different regions within ... Leer más

    $54.99 USD

  • Eat First, Talk Later

    de Beth Yahp ...
    A dazzling memoir from a talented Malaysian writer about family and home, and a searing portrait of the country of her birth.In this riveting memoir Beth persuades her ageing parents on a road trip around their former home, Malaysia. She intends to retrace their honeymoon of 45 years before, but their journey doesn’t quite work out as she planned. Only the family mantra, ‘Eat first, talk later’ ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido for the Suppression of Piracy

    de Henry Keppel ...
    James, Rajah of Sarawak,KCB (born James Brooke; 29 April 1803 – 11 June 1868) was a British adventurer whose exploits in areas of the British Empire led to him becoming the first White Rajah of Sarawak. In 1833, He inherited £30,000, which he used as capital to purchase a 142-ton schooner, The Royalist. Setting sail for Borneo in 1838, he arrived in Kuching in August to find the settlement ... Leer más

    $2.67 USD

  • China and Maritime Europe, 1500–1800

    Trade, Settlement, Diplomacy, and Missions

    de John E. Wills, Jr, John Cranmer-Byng, Willard J. Peterson, Jr, John W. Witek ...
    China and Maritime Europe, 1500–1800 looks at early modern China in some of its most complicated and intriguing relations with a world of increasing global interconnection. New World silver, Chinese tea, Jesuit astronomers at the Chinese court, and merchants and marauders of all kinds play important roles here. Although pieces of these stories have been told before, these chapters provide the ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895

    Perceptions, Power, and Primacy

    de S. C. M. Paine ...
    The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895 is a seminal event in world history, yet it has been virtually ignored in Western literature. In the East, the focus of Chinese foreign policy has been to undo its results whereas the focus of Japanese foreign policy has been to confirm them. Japan supplanted China as the dominant regional power, disrupting the traditional power balance and fracturing the ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The Economic History of China

    From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century

    de Richard von Glahn ...
    China's extraordinary rise as an economic powerhouse in the past two decades poses a challenge to many long-held assumptions about the relationship between political institutions and economic development. Economic prosperity also was vitally important to the longevity of the Chinese Empire throughout the preindustrial era. Before the eighteenth century, China's economy shared some of the features, ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD