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  • The Chinese Diaspora in South-East Asia

    The Overseas Chinese in IndoChina

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $121.99 USD

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  • A City in Wartime – Dublin 1914–1918

    The Easter Rising 1916

    de Pádraig Yeates ...
    This fascinating history looks at how the lives of ordinary Dubliners were affected by these three major events Why did so many working-class Dublin men join the British Army? How did the city's 92,000 Protestants fare in this turbulent time? Dubliners fought on both sides in the Easter Rising. What were their motivations? How did Sinn Féin and the Catholic Church marginalise Labour in the battle ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A Short History of the Irish Revolution, 1912 to 1927

    From the Ulster Crisis to the formation of the Irish Free State

    de Richard Killeen ...
    The years of the Irish revolution were the crucible of modern Ireland. Richard Killeen's authoritative survey of the period is an ideal introduction to this tumultuous time. The Irish revolution began with the Ulster crisis of 1912 followed by the Irish Nationalist Party securing the passage of the Home Rule Act in 1914. By then, however, the Great War had broken out: the Act was suspended for the ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • India

    A Short History

    de Andrew Robinson ...
    Series 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 ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Zambia

    The First 50 Years

    de Andrew Sardanis ...
    On 24 October 1964, the Republic of Zambia was formed, replacing the territory which had formerly been known as Northern Rhodesia. Fifty years on, Andrew Sardanis provides a sympathetic but critical insider's account of Zambia, from independence to the present. He paints a stark picture of Northern Rhodesia at decolonisation and the problems of the incoming government, presented with an immense ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Irish War of Independence

    The Definitive Account of the Anglo Irish War of 1919 - 1921

    de Micahel Hopkinson ...
    Within months of first publication, Michael Hopkinson's study of the Irish War of Independence established itself as by far most comprehensive and evocative account of the role played by the conflict in shaping modern Ireland. It has been welcomed both by scholars and the general public alike, and gone further than perhaps any other recent publication in recasting our understanding of Ireland's ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Subaltern Lives

    Biographies of Colonialism in the Indian Ocean World, 1790–1920

    de Clare Anderson ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Empire
    Subaltern Lives uses biographical fragments of the lives of convicts, captives, sailors, slaves, indentured labourers and indigenous peoples to build a fascinating new picture of colonial life in the nineteenth-century Indian Ocean. Moving between India, Africa, Mauritius, Burma, Singapore, Ceylon, the Andaman Islands and the Australian colonies, Clare Anderson offers fresh readings of the nature ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • 50 Dáil Debates that Shaped the Nation

    Standing by the Republic

    de John Drennan ...
    From the debates of the 1950s that were strikingly similar to what we face today – struggles against bankruptcy, emigration and abuse of power by the State – through the wars in the 70s and 80s over divorce and abortion, to the Jacobean dramas surrounding the fall of Haughey in the 1990s, this essential book finally traces the fall of the first Republic via the tragic-comic dénouement of the Cowen ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Bangladesh

    A Political History since Independence

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $153.99 USD

  • Chinese in Colonial Burma

    A Migrant Community in A Multiethnic State

    de Yi Li ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Using previously unexplored archives from colonial institutions and individuals, and primary materials produced by the Burmese Chinese, this comprehensive study investigates over a century of history of the Burmese Chinese under British colonial rule. Due to the peculiar position of Burma in the British imperial world and the Southeast Asian Chinese network, the Chinese community had a unique ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • Political Cultural Developments in East Asia

    Interpreting Logics of Change

    de P. W. Preston ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book offers an interpretive and critical comparative politics analysis of the post-1945 development trajectory of the broad East Asian region and its component countries. The discussion considers the region and its countries in terms of their historical legacies (colonialism, war and the preoccupation with development) and argues that each country has constructed their own way of ordering ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • Making British Indian Fictions

    1772-1823

    de A. Malhotra ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book examines fictional representations of India in novels, plays and poetry produced between the years 1772 to 1823 as historical source material. It uses literary texts as case studies to investigate how Britons residing both in the metropole and in India justified, confronted and imagined the colonial encounter during this period. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD