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Afghanistan
. A Military History from Alexander the Great to the Taliban Insurgency
- Perseus, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 330 páginas
PVP: 15,59 €
ISBN 978-0-306-81826-4
EAN 9780306818264
For over 2,500 years, the forbidding territory of Afghanistan has served as a vital crossroads for armies and has witnessed history-shaping clashes between civilizations: Greek, Arab, Mongol, and Tartar, and, in more recent times, British, Russian, and American. When U.S. troops entered Afghanistan in the weeks following September 11, 2001, they overthrew the Afghan Taliban ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 9,60 €
ISBN 978-0-19-923569-8
EAN 9780199235698
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The Rise and Fall of the Shah
Iran from Autocracy to Religious Rule
- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 328 páginas
PVP: 18,69 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14040-7
EAN 9780691140407
On November 4, 1979, when students occupied the American Embassy in Tehran and subsequently demanded that the United States return the Shah in exchange for hostages, the deposed Iranian ruler's regime became the focus of worldwide scrutiny and controversy. But, as Amin Saikal shows, this was far from the beginning of Iran's troubles.Saikal examines the ...
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- 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, ...
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- 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 ...
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Frontline Pakistan
The Path to Catastrophe and the Killing of Benazir Bhutto
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- 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 ...
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- 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 ...
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Ivory, rare woods, drugs, diamonds, magicians, dancing girlsthe author covers all classes of unusual imports, their places of origin, their lore, their effort on costume, dwellings, diet, and on painting, sculpture, music, and poetry.This book is not a statistical record of commercial imports and medieval trade, but rather a "humanistic essay, however material its subject ...
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In the 21st century, every sixth human being will be Indian. India is very close to becoming the second largest consumer market in the world, with a buying middle class numbering over half a billion. The Indian economy is already the fourth largest in terms of purchasing power parity.It is in the top ten overall ...
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China: Fragile Superpower
. How China's Internal Politics could Derail its Peaceful Rise
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 13,49 €
ISBN 978-0-19-537319-6
EAN 9780195373196
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- Macmillan, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 300 páginas
PVP: 12,95 €
ISBN 978-0-330-39611-0
EAN 9780330396110
Born against a background of privation and civil war, divided along lines of caste, class, language and religion, independent India emerged, somehow, as a united and democratic country. Ramachandra Guha's hugely acclaimed book tells the full story - the pain and the struggle, the humiliations and the glories - of the world's largest and least ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 319 páginas
PVP: 42,35 €
ISBN 978-0-520-25817-4
EAN 9780520258174
Rich with details of everyday life, this multifaceted social and cultural history of China's leading metropolis in the twentieth century offers a kaleidoscopic view of Shanghai as the major site of Chinese modernization. Engaging the entire span of Shanghai's modern history from the Opium War to the eve of the Communist takeover in 1949, Wen-hsin ...
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Vishnu's Crowded Temple
India from the Great Mutiny to the Present Day
- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-028531-4
EAN 9780140285314
There can be few more discussed countries in the world today than India. From being a seemingly closed off, economically stagnant part of Asia, with intractable problems of poverty and population, India has in a short space of time reached an astonishing level of growth, taking with China the lion's share of the benefits from ...
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Basrayatha
The Story of a City
Basrayatha is a literary tribute by author Muhammad Khudayyir to the city of his birth, Basra, on the Shatt al-Arab waterway in southern Iraq. Just as a city's inhabitants differ from outsiders through their knowledge of its streets and stories, so Khudayyir distinguishes between the real city of Basra and the imagined city he created ...
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The Dragon and the Foreign Devils
China and the World 1100 BC to the Present
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7475-9329-4
EAN 9780747593294
China's story is of warfare and violence, philosophical and political invention, shining artistic achievement and often complex and subtle relations with outsiders. Harry G. Gelber's fascinating general history of this great nation makes sense of China's changing relationship with the rest of the world as never before. From the invasions by steppe horsemen in 200 ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 168 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-0-19-922802-7
EAN 9780199228027
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Forgotten Wars
The End of Britain's Asian Empire
- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 704 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101738-9
EAN 9780141017389
This extraordinary book is a vivid, highly original account of the creation of a new Asia after the Second World War - an unstoppable wave of nationalism that swept the British Empire aside. It tells the definitive story of how India, Pakistan, Burma and Malaysia came into existence and how British interference in Vietnam and ...
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Drawing both on the author's own family's stories and his years of hands-on political experience, this book offers an account of how the world might transform the Burma's future.
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