Victorious in Defeat
The Life and Times of Chiang Kai-shek, China, 1887-1975
ISBN: HB: 9780300260205,
Yale University Press,
May 2023
736 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 31 black&white illus.
736 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 31 black&white illus.
An extensively researched, comprehensive biography of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, one of the twentieth century's most powerful and controversial figures.
Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975) led the Republic of China for almost fifty years,...
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Changing Clothes in China (New Edition)
Fashion, History, Nation
ISBN: PB: 9781787387225,
ISBN: HB: 9781850658603,
Hurst Publishers,
May 2023
360 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
360 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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Historians have long regarded fashion as something peculiarly Western. In this surprising, sumptuously illustrated book, Antonia Finnane challenges this view, which she argues is based on nineteenth- and twentieth-century repre...
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India in the Second World War
An Emotional History
ISBN: HB: 9781787389458,
Hurst Publishers,
May 2023
384 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
384 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
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From poetry to memoirs to photographs, Gupta explores the feelings documented by Indians as a global conflict coincided with the battle for their country's future.
In 1940s India, revolutionary and nationalistic feeling surged...
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Hungry Bengal
War, Famine and the End of Empire
ISBN: PB: 9781787389670,
ISBN: HB: 9781849044318,
Hurst Publishers,
April 2023
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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The years leading up to the independence and accompanying partition of India mark a tumultuous period in the history of Bengal. Representing both a major front in the Indian struggle against colonial rule, as well as a crucial...
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Royals and Rebels
The Rise and Fall of the Sikh Empire
ISBN: PB: 9781787389649,
ISBN: HB: 9781787383081,
Hurst Publishers,
April 2023
312 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 24 colour illus.
312 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 24 colour illus.
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A dazzling history of the powerful women and men who forged a dynasty to rival the Mughals and the British
A BBC History Magazine Best Book of 2020
In late-eighteenth-century India, the glory of the Mughal emperors was fading,...
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China and Russia
Four Centuries of Conflict and Concord
ISBN: HB: 9780300166651,
Yale University Press,
March 2023
624 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 38 colour illus., 6 maps
624 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 38 colour illus., 6 maps
A compelling, expansive history of the relationship between China and Russia, from the seventeenth century to the present.
Russia and China, the largest and most populous countries in the world, respectively, have maintained a delicate relationship...
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25.00 GBP
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Another India
The Making of the World's Largest Muslim Minority, 1947-77
ISBN: HB: 9781787388086,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2023
432 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
432 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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A fresh take on the history of post-independence India, revealing how Muslim leaders in Congress and the community abandoned those they claimed to represent.
"Another India" tells the story of the world's biggest religious min...
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Artful Subversion
Empress Dowager Cixi's Image Making
ISBN: HB: 9780300263435,
Yale University Press,
February 2023
208 pp., 25,4x20,3 cm, 82 colour illus., 19 black&white illus.
208 pp., 25,4x20,3 cm, 82 colour illus., 19 black&white illus.
This revelatory book shows how the influential and controversial Empress Dowager Cixi used art and architecture to establish her authority
Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908), who ruled China from 1861 until her death in 1908, is a subject of fascinati...
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How Asia Found Herself
A Story of Intercultural Understanding
ISBN: HB: 9780300257045,
Yale University Press,
January 2023
472 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 24 black&white illus.
472 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 24 black&white illus.
A pioneering history of cross-cultural knowledge that exposes enduring fractures in unity across the world's largest continent.
The nineteenth century saw European empires build vast transport networks to maximize their profits from trade, and it sa...
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Empire Building
The Construction of British India, 1690-1860
ISBN: HB: 9781787388048,
Hurst Publishers,
January 2023
352 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
352 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
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A richly illustrated history showing how the British Empire used buildings in early colonial India to influence attitudes among those who saw and used them.
"Empire Building" is a new account of the East India Company's impact...
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