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- Gerald Duckworth, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7156-4551-2
EAN 9780715645512
A unique, intimate look at the Chinese experience over the past several decades, told through personal stories and astute analysis that sharply illuminate the country's meteoric economic rise and social transformation. Framed by ten words or phrases common in the Chinese vernacular, China in Ten Words reveals as never before the world's most populous yet ...
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An Uncertain Glory
India and its Contradictions
- Allen Lane, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 30,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-761-6
EAN 9781846147616
Two of India's leading economists argue that, despite economic development, there must be a greater understanding of inequalities in India. When India became independent in 1947 after two centuries of colonial subjugation, it immediately - and quite successfully - adopted a firmly democratic political system, with multiple parties, freedom of speech and extensive political rights. ...
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- Yale University Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 20,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-19410-4
EAN 9780300194104
A timely and illuminating history of Tibet, from the seventh century to what it means to be Tibetan todaySituated north of the Himalayas, Tibet is famous for its unique culture and its controversial assimilation into modern China. Yet Tibet in the twenty-first century can only be properly understood in the context of its extraordinary history.Sam ...
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- Penguin UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 816 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197515-3
EAN 9780141975153
In 1850, China was the 'sick man of Asia'. Now it is set to become the most powerful nation on earth.The Penguin History of Modern China shows how turbulent that journey has been. For 150 years China has endured as victim to brutality on an unmatched scale, to oppression, to war and to famine. This ...
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- Penguin UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95466-9
EAN 9780241954669
Pankaj Mishra's provocative account of how China, India and the Muslim World are remaking the world in their own image - shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2013SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2013Viewed in the West as a time of self-confident progress, the Victorian period was experienced by Asians as a catastrophe. As the British gunned ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 712 páginas
PVP: 48,76 €
ISBN 978-0-521-69915-0
EAN 9780521699150
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 ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,35 €
ISBN 978-0-19-958866-4
EAN 9780199588664
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Tiger Head, Snake Tails
China Today, How it Got There and Why it Has to Change
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84739-411-8
EAN 9781847394118
With the world's second-largest (and fastest expanding) economy, a population of more than 1.3 billion, a place at the core of the G20, a permanent seat on the UN Security Council and an ability to dispense cash without conditions to countries in return for the raw materials it gobbles up, China is an increasingly significant ...
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- Picador, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 21,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4472-2982-7
EAN 9781447229827
With all the emotional power of The Kite Runner, this is the very first true life account of growing up in Afghanistan, by a writer who still lives in Kabul.Qais Akbar Omar's young life coincided with one of the most convulsive decades in Afghan history: civil war, the rise of the Taliban, and the arrival ...
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Midnight in Peking
The Murder That Haunted the Last Days of Old China
- Penguin UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95717-2
EAN 9780241957172
Peking, 1937: The teenage daughter of a British consul is brutally slaughtered.The police investigation is botched; as war looms British and Chinese authorities close ranks. A grieving father vows to uncover the truth - alone. Seventy-five years later, historian Paul French uncovers a stash of forgotten documents revealing the killer's identity...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 28,35 €
ISBN 978-0-19-986014-2
EAN 9780199860142
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- Perseus, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 376 páginas
ISBN 978-1-56858-742-4
EAN 9781568587424
The moving story of one veteran's search for redemption in Viet Nam as he seeks forgiveness from the family of the man he killed forty years ago.On March 19, 1969, First Lieutenant Homer R. Steedly, Jr., shot and killed a North Vietnamese soldier, Dam, when they met on a jungle trail. Steedly took a diary-filled ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 608 páginas
PVP: 38,40 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-1830-5
EAN 9781408818305
In the spring of 1839, the British invaded Afghanistan for the first time. Led by lancers in scarlet cloaks and plumed shakos, nearly 20,000 British and East India Company troops poured through the high mountain passes and re-established on the throne Shah Shuja ul-Mulk. On the way in, the British faced little resistance.But after two ...
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- Faber, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-24400-3
EAN 9780571244003
In the summer of 1976, Mao lay dying, and China was struck by a great natural disaster. The earthquake that struck Tangshan, a shoddily built mining city, was one of the worst in recorded history, killing half a million people. But the Chinese Communist rulers in Beijing were distracted, paralysed by in-fighting over who would ...
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum - Winner of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award 2013
Annawadi is a slum at the edge of Mumbai Airport, in the shadow of shining new luxury hotels. Its residents are garbage recyclers and construction workers, economic migrants, all of them living in the hope that a small part of India's booming future will eventually be theirs. But when a crime rocks the slum community ...
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- Vintage USA, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 14,45 €
ISBN 978-0-307-47221-2
EAN 9780307472212
A gripping account of China's nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history-a sweeping yet intimate portrait of the conflict that shaped the fate of modern China.The story begins in the early 1850s, the waning years of the Qing dynasty, when word spread of a major revolution brewing in the provinces, led ...
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- Indiana University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 47,25 €
ISBN 978-0-253-00723-0
EAN 9780253007230
In the spring of 1946, Communists and Nationalist Chinese were battled for control of Manchuria and supremacy in the civil war. The Nationalist attack on Siping ended with a Communist withdrawal, but further pursuit was halted by a cease-fire brokered by the American general, George Marshall. Within three years, Mao Zedong's troops had captured Manchuria ...
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The History of Central Asia
The Age of the Steppe Warriors
- IBTauris, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 38,40 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-060-5
EAN 9781780760605
This is a sumptuously illustrated history of one of the most compelling and mysterious regions on earth. It is a unique travelogue and resource by a latter-day Richard Burton: required reading for years to come. It is a crossover sale to scholars and students of antiquity, history, archaeology and religious studies. The epic plains and ...
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- IBTauris, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 520 páginas
PVP: 23,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-381-1
EAN 9781780763811
China's transformation in the last few decades has been perhaps the most remarkable - and most controversial - development in modern history. Barely a century removed from the struggling and outdated Qing Empire, China has managed to reinvent itself on an unprecedented scale: from Empire, to Communist state, to hybrid capitalist superpower. Yet the full ...
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