PASAJES Librería internacional: su libro en español, inglés, francés, alemán, italiano, portugués o del idioma que busque en casa.
Usted se encuentra en:
Inicio
/ Libros
/ INGLÉS / Historia y actualidad política / Política, economía y sociedad internacional / Estados de Asia /
Menú principal
Acceso a clientes
Mi pedido:
Mi pedido
0 artículos
0,00 €
Novedades y recomendados de PASAJES
-
- Picador, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52271-7
EAN 9780330522717
THE SECOND BOOK IN V.S. NAIPAUL'S ACCLAIMED INDIAN TRILOGY In 1964 V.S. Naipaul published An Area of Darkness, his semi-autobiographical account of a year in India.Two visits later, prompted by the Emergency of 1975, he came to write India: A Wounded Civilization. In this work he casts a more analytical eye than before over Indian ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
- Granta Books, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 314 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-141-4
EAN 9781847081414
North Korea is Orwell's 1984 made reality: it is the only country in the world not connected to the internet; Gone with the Wind is a dangerous, banned book; during political rallies, spies study your expression to check your sincerity. After the death of the country's great leader Kim Il Sung in 1994, famine descended: ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
China
A History
- Harper Collins USA, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-00-722178-3
EAN 9780007221783
Three thousand years of Chinese history in an accessible and authoritative single volume. Despite the recent rise of China to a position of dominance on the world economic stage, Chinese history remains an elusive subject. Yet it is this vast narrative of appalling loss, superhuman endeavour and incredible invention that has made China the superpower ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
- Taylor & Francis, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 341 páginas
PVP: 54,80 €
ISBN 978-0-415-54582-2
EAN 9780415545822
Sin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
- John Murray, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 17,55 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6005-7
EAN 9780719560057
One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains, flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. For millennia it has been worshipped as a god; for centuries used as a tool of imperial expansion; today it is the cement of Pakistans fractious union. Five thousand years ago, ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
- Penguin USA, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119184-3
EAN 9780141191843
For a generation adjusting painfully to the demands of a modern industrial and commercial society, Asia came to represent an alternative vision of the good life: aesthetically austere, socially aristocratic, and imbued with spirituality. The Book of Tea was originally written in English and sought to address the inchoate yearnings of disaffected Westerners. In a ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
- Harper Collins, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-0-00-638851-7
EAN 9780006388517
The electrifying story of India's struggle for independence, told in this classic account (first published in 1975) by two fine journalists who conducted hundreds of interviews with nearly all the surviving participants - from Mountbatten to the assassins of Mahatma Gandhi. On 14 August 1947 one-fifth of humanity claimed their independence from the greatest empire ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
- Picador USA, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42811-2
EAN 9780312428112
The stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, liberated 400 million people from the British Empire. With the loss of India, its greatest colony, Britain ceased to be a superpower, and its king ceased to sign himself Rex Imperator.This defining moment of world history had been brought about by a handful of people. Among them ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
- Taylor & Francis, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 53,80 €
ISBN 978-0-415-46459-8
EAN 9780415464598
Takeshi Hamashita, arguably Asia's premier historian of the longue duree, has been instrumental in opening a new field of inquiry in Chinese, East Asian and world historical research. Engaging modernization, Marxist and world system approaches, his wide-ranging redefinition of the evolving relationships between the East Asia regional system and the world economy from the sixteenth ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (encargos sólo en librería)
-
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 129,10 €
ISBN 978-0-8248-2982-7
EAN 9780824829827
Japan joined the League of Nations in 1920 as a charter member and one of four permanent members of the League Council. Until conflict arose between Japan and the organization over the 1931 Manchurian Incident, the League was a centerpiece of Japan's policy to maintain accommodation with the Western powers. The picture of Japan as ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (encargos sólo en librería)
-
- Taylor & Francis, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 65,25 €
ISBN 978-0-415-37216-9
EAN 9780415372169
Sin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
Bombay's story is told through the lives, often desperately near the edge, of some of the people who live there. Hitmen, dancing girls, cops, movie stars, poets, beggars and politicians - Suketu looked at the city through their eyes. The complex texture of these extraordinary tales is threaded together by Suketu Mehta's own history of ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
- Pen & Sword Books, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 19,35 €
ISBN 978-1-84415-318-3
EAN 9781844153183
Originally published in 1961, before the United States escalated its involvement in South Vietnam, Street Without Joy offered a clear warning about what American forces would face in the jungles of Southeast Asia; a costly and protracted revolutionary war fought without fronts against a mobile enemy. In harrowing detail, Fall describes the brutality and frustrations ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
From the 10th century onwards the great monastic foundations of Nara and Mount Hiei maintained large armies of warlike monks, a practice that was later followed by other institutions. The tempestuous political rivalries that developed between the different orders of monks, and even factions within the same orders, ensured that these Buddhist temples and monasteries ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
- Bantam, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-553-81498-9
EAN 9780553814989
Genghis Khan - creator of the greatest empire the world has ever seen - is one of history's immortals. In Central Asia, they still use his name to frighten children. In China, he is honoured as the founder of a dynasty.In Mongolia he is the father of the nation. In the USA, Time magazine, voted ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
- Taylor & Francis, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 195,70 €
ISBN 978-0-415-22034-7
EAN 9780415220347
The Institute of Pacific Relations was a pioneering intellectual-political organization that shaped public knowledge and both elite and popular discourse throughout the Asia-Pacific region and beyond during the inter-war years. Inspired by Wilsonian internationalism after the 1919 formation of the League of Nations, it grew to become an international and national non-governmental think-tank providing expertise ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (encargos sólo en librería)
-
Sources of Korean Tradition
From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries
- Columbia, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 55,50 €
ISBN 978-0-231-12031-9
EAN 9780231120319
Modeled after the classic Sources of Chinese Tradition, Sources of Japanese Tradition, and Sources of Indian Tradition, this collection of seminal primary readings in the social, intellectual, and religious traditions of Korea from the sixteenth century to the present day lays the groundwork for understanding Korean civilization and demonstrates how leading intellectuals and public figures ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 458 páginas
PVP: 35,25 €
ISBN 978-0-520-22236-6
EAN 9780520222366
Opium is more than just a drug extracted from poppies. Over the past two centuries it has been a palliative medicine, an addictive substance, a powerful mechanism for concentrating and transferring wealth and power between nations, and the anchor for a now vanished sociocultural world in and around China. Opium Regimes integrates the pioneering research ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
In June of 1997, over a century and a half of British rule in Hong Kong came to an end. Chris Patten writes about his experiences as the last governor of the colony of Hong Kong. He explains why he adopted the stance that he did, and how he fought his battles.
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
Sources of Korean Tradition
From Early Times Through The Sixteenth Century
- Columbia, 1996
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 55,50 €
ISBN 978-0-231-10567-5
EAN 9780231105675
Drawn from Peter H. Lee's Sourcebook of Korean Civilization, Volume I, this abridged introductory collection offers students and general readers primary readings in the social, intellectual, and religious traditions of Korea from ancient times through the sixteenth century. Sources of Korean Tradition is arranged according to the major epochs of Korean history, including sections on: ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
