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Hardcover. Focusing on the marginal region of Toyama, this book explores the interplay of central and regional authorities, local and national perceptions of rights, and the emerging political practices in Toyama and Tokyo that became part of the new political culture in Japan following the Meiji Restoration. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 376 pages, 36 illustrations, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 660.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674002425
ISBN
9780674002425
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 44.25

Paperback. Provides an overview of the government of the early empires of China. This work discusses topics such as: the seat of supreme authority; the structure of central government; provincial and local government; the armed forces; officials; government communications; laws of the empire; control of the people and the land; and, problems and weaknesses. Num Pages: 248 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3D; HBJF; HBLA. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 304.
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872208186
ISBN
9780872208186
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.34

Paperback. Sheds light on the conceptual background of the Han period (202BC-AD220), in which seminal Chinese ideas in religion, philosophy, science and politics were formulated. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HB; HP; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 282.
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
226
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872207561
ISBN
9780872207561
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.92

Provides an overview of the government of the early empires of China. Topics discussed are: the seat of supreme authority; the structure of central government; provincial and local government; the armed forces; officials; government communications; laws of the empire; control of the people and the land; and more. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLA. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 400.
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872208193
ISBN
9780872208193
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 37.01

Hardback. Translator(s): Simkin, Francesca. Series: Asia Perspectives: History, Society and Culture. Num Pages: 272 pages, 40 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; ACBP; ACX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231172929
ISBN
9780231172929
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.07
€ 51.18

Hardback. Translator(s): Grimwade, Karen. Series: Asia Perspectives: History, Society and Culture. Num Pages: 376 pages, 27 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBAH; HBJF; HBWQ; JFCA; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231177023
ISBN
9780231177023
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.35
€ 57.15

Paperback. Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested series, combining in-depth analysis, engaging narrative and accessibility. Access to History is the most popular, trusted and wide-ranging series for A-level History students. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; 3JJ; 4KL; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 192 x 245 x 14. Weight in Grams: 696.
Publisher
Hodder Education
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781471839184
ISBN
9781471839184
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.97

Hardback. As Syria's Kurds become more deeply embroiled in a war not of their making, this book is an essential point of reference. In mid-2012, Assad withdrew his troops from the major Kurdish areas in Syria - how will this play out in the wider civil war? Will the lines of the Middle East be redrawn based on the Syrian Kurds? Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBS; 3JMG; JFSL1; JPV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 356.
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849044356
ISBN
9781849044356
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.98

Hardback. Over the years a number of historians have argued that the CCP was a nationalist movement and that the United States missed its opportunity to establish friendly relations because US leaders were blinded by fears of an international Communist threat. This book challenges this position. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 1FPC; 1KBB; HBJD; HBJF; HBJK; HBLW; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691016351
ISBN
9780691016351
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 144.33
€ 109.68

hardcover. This book shows how, though Suzhou entered the Ming defeated and suspect, interactions between the imperial state and local elites gave rise to a network of markets, centered on Suzhou, that fostered high-quality local specialization. Num Pages: 384 pages, 12 tables, 2 figures, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 26. Weight in Grams: 630.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804731126
ISBN
9780804731126
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.97

Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, 330+ color photos. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FPC; AFY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 278 x 219 x 12. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764316791
ISBN
9780764316791
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 25.30

Hardcover. Num Pages: 352 pages, 6 halftones, 23 tables, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FB; HBJD; HBJF1; HBLC1; HRAX; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 260 x 184 x 31. Weight in Grams: 878.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection United States
Edition
Har/Chrt
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780884023630
ISBN
9780884023630
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 38.07

Paperback. Michael Meeker combines anthropological and historical methods to examine the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic in a major region of the country, the eastern Black Sea coast. Num Pages: 438 pages, 13 b/w photographs, 2 maps, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 1FB; 1QDT; HBJF1; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
438
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520234826
ISBN
9780520234826
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 37.89

Hardback. Japan's merchant capital in the late sixteenth century, Osaka remained an industrial center into the 1930s, developing a distinct urban culture to rival Tokyo's. Osaka Modern maps the city as imagined in Japanese popular literature and cinema as well as contemporary radio, television, music, and comedy from the 1920s to the 1950s. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 22 x 15 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674975187
ISBN
9780674975187
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 38.20

Paperback. Michael Palin tackles the full length of the Himalaya in this terrific number one bestseller Num Pages: 304 pages, 150. BIC Classification: 1FKAH; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Condition
New
Edition
UK ed.
SKU
V9780753819906
ISBN
9780753819906
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.27

Paperback. Michael Pillsbury, who has served in senior national security positions in the U.S. government since the days of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, draws on Chinese documents, speeches, and books to reveal the roots of the strategy to supplant the United States as the world's dominant power. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 210 x 25. Weight in Grams: 312.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Griffin Publishing
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9781250081346
ISBN
9781250081346
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 18.34

Paperback. A history of the largest and longest-lasting people's revolt in the Arab East, which attempted to liberate Syria from French rule in 1925. Series: CMES Modern Middle East Series. Num Pages: 223 pages, 7 b&w illus., 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FBS; 3JJG; HBJF1; HBLW. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
223
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292706804
ISBN
9780292706804
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.29

Hardback. A new history of the United Arab Emirates, which looks behind the region's glossy facade to cast a revealing light on a much-misunderstood land. Num Pages: 256 pages, 60 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBXU; HBJF1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780235806
ISBN
9781780235806
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.65

Hardback. In the twenty years that followed the Arab-Israeli war of 1948, 800,000 Jews left their homes in Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Morocco, and several other Arab countries. This book reconstructs the circumstances in which Jewish communities left the Arab world. Num Pages: 376 pages, 12 tables. BIC Classification: 1FB; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; JFSR1; JPVH3; JPVR. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 644.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231135382
ISBN
9780231135382
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.07
€ 51.02

Paperback. Follows the dangerous lives of peace activists in Israel and Palestine, exploring the risks they face, and small victories that sustain them. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBP; GTJ; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 298.
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745330228
ISBN
9780745330228
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 22.95

Hardback. This study investigates the Japanese experiment with financial imperialism--or "yen diplomacy"--at several key moments between the acquisition of Taiwan in 1895 and the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937, and how these practices impacted the development of receiving nations and defined their geopolitical position in the postcolonial world. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 290 pages, 12 halftones, 1 map, 18 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; KCBM; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 582.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674062498
ISBN
9780674062498
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 38.07

Paperback. Mao Zedong launched the "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" 30 years ago. This documentary history of the event presents a selection of key primary documents dealing with the Cultural Revolution's massive and bloody assault on China's political and social systems. Num Pages: 352 pages, photographs, chronology, maps, biographies, index. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPK; HBJF; HBLW3; HBTB; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 27. Weight in Grams: 636.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Inc United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781563247378
ISBN
9781563247378
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.49

Paperback. Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested series, combining in-depth analysis, engaging narrative and accessibility. Access to History is the most popular, trusted and wide-ranging series for A-level History students. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 3JJ; 3JM; 4KL; HBJF1; HBLW; HBLX. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 191 x 246 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
Publisher
Hodder Education
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781471838415
ISBN
9781471838415
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.88

Hardback. Editor(s): Sebbane, Michael; Misch-Brandl, Osnat; Master, Daniel M. Num Pages: 184 pages, 7 line illus. BIC Classification: 1FBH; ACC; AGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 294 x 225 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1240.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691162867
ISBN
9780691162867
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.07
€ 50.79

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