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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 13,49 €
ISBN 978-0-19-537319-6
EAN 9780195373196
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 27,85 €
ISBN 978-0-521-52891-7
EAN 9780521528917
In a reappraisal of Iran's modern history, Ervand Abrahamian traces its traumatic journey across the twentieth century, through the discovery of oil, imperial interventions, the rule of the Pahlavis and, in 1979, revolution and the birth of the Islamic Republic. In the intervening years, the country has experienced a bitter war with Iraq, the transformation ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 48 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7534-1576-4
EAN 9780753415764
This series offers a unique journey through different periods in history. Detailed artworks tell the story of a specific location as it changes with time. As they explore each scene, readers learn about the people who lived in this place, looking at their beliefs and way of life."Through Time: Beijing" follows the story of several ...
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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 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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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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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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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 ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-374-53116-4
EAN 9780374531164
What do we really know about Burma and its history? And what can Burma's past tell us about its present and even its future? For nearly two decades Western governments and a growing activist community have been frustrated in their attempts to bring about a freer and more democratic Burma through sanctions and tourist boycotts ...
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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 ...
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India is poised to become one of the world's three largest economies in the next generation and to overtake China as the world's most populous country by 2032. Well before then India's incipient nuclear deterrent will have acquired intercontinental range and air, sea and land capabilities. India's volatile relationship with its nuclear-armed neighbour, Pakistan, may ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 14,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-303825-2
EAN 9780143038252
Anyone who despairs of the individual's power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan's treacherous K2, was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountain villagers and promised to build them a school. Over the next decade he built fifty-five schools ...
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