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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198143-7
EAN 9780141981437
'Incarnations makes the mind fly across time, place and history. You may smile as, mentally, you walk alongside Khilnani up some flinty slope. You will keep thinking about what he said long after' Daily Telegraph For all of India's myths, its sea of stories and moral epics, Indian history remains a curiously unpeopled place.Sunil Khilnani's ...
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Burma '44
The Battle That Turned The War in South-East Asia
"A thrilling blow-by-blow account". (The Times). In February 1944, a rag-tag collection of clerks, drivers, doctors, muleteers, and other base troops, stiffened by a few dogged Yorkshiremen and a handful of tank crews managed to hold out against some of the finest infantry in the Japanese Army, and then defeat them in what was one ...
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- Random House UK, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 15,33 €
ISBN 978-1-84604-520-2
EAN 9781846045202
In the course of a couple of generations, South Koreans took themselves out of the paddy fields and into Silicon Valley, establishing themselves as a democracy alongside the advanced countries of the world. Yet for all their ambition and achievement, the new Koreans are a curiously self-deprecating people. Theirs is a land with a rich ...
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Glosserman, Brad; Snyder, Scott
The Japan-South Korea Identity Clash : East Asian Security and the United States
- Columbia, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 33,35 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17171-7
EAN 9780231171717
Japan and South Korea are Western-style democracies with open-market economies committed to the rule of law. They are also U.S. allies. Yet despite their shared interests, shared values, and geographic proximity, divergent national identities have driven a wedge between them. Drawing on decades of expertise, Brad Glosserman and Scott A. Snyder investigate the roots of ...
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- Columbia, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 264 páginas
PVP: 33,40 €
ISBN 978-0-231-16419-1
EAN 9780231164191
Many thought China's rise would fundamentally remake the global order. Yet, much like other developing nations, the Chinese state now finds itself in a status quo characterized by free trade and American domination. Through a cutting-edge historical, sociological, and political analysis, Ho-fung Hung details the competing interests and economic realities that temper the dream of ...
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- Columbia, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 488 páginas
PVP: 34,95 €
ISBN 978-0-231-13481-1
EAN 9780231134811
Rooted in recent scholarship, The Columbia History of the Vietnam War offers profound new perspectives on the political, historical, military, and social issues that defined the war and its effect on the United States and Vietnam. Laying the chronological and critical foundations for the volume, David L. Anderson opens with an essay on the Vietnam ...
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- Columbia, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 34,95 €
ISBN 978-0-231-14965-5
EAN 9780231149655
Raised to be "flowers of the nation," the first generation born after the founding of the People's Republic of China was united in its political outlook and at first embraced the Cultural Revolution of 1966, but then split into warring factions. Investigating the causes of this fracture, Guobin Yang argues that Chinese youth engaged in ...
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- Penguin UK, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 576 páginas
PVP: 31,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-618-3
EAN 9781846146183
Even at the high noon of Europe's empires China managed to be one of the handful of countries not to succumb. Invaded, humiliated and looted, China nonetheless kept its sovereignty. Robert Bickers' major new book is the first to describe fully what has proved to be one of the modern era's most important stories: the ...
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Inglorious Empire
What the British Did to India
- Hurst, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 31,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84904-808-8
EAN 9781849048088
Inglorious Empire tells the real story of the British in India, from the arrival of the East India Company in 1757 to the end of the Raj, and reveals how Britain's rise was built upon its depredations in India.India was Britain's biggest cash cow, and Indians literally paid for their own oppression. Britain's Industrial Revolution ...
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- IBTauris, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
ISBN 978-1-78453-724-1
EAN 9781784537241
In a mist-shrouded valley on China's invisible border with Tibet is a place known as the 'Kingdom of Women', where a small tribe called the Mosuo lives in a cluster of villages that have changed little in centuries. This is one of the last matrilineal societies on earth, where power lies in the hands of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-8635-9
EAN 9781408886359
In 1949 Mao Zedong hoisted the red flag over Beijing's Forbidden City. Instead of liberating the country, the communists destroyed the old order and replaced it with a repressive system that would dominate every aspect of Chinese life. In an epic of revolution and violence which draws on newly opened party archives, interviews and memoirs, ...
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- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 312 páginas
PVP: 43,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21781-0
EAN 9780300217810
The story of North Korea's information underground and how it inspires people to seek better lives beyond their country's borders One of the least understood countries in the world, North Korea has long been known for its repressive regime. Yet it is far from being an impenetrable black box. Media flows covertly into the country, ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 270 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97139-4
EAN 9780674971394
Chinas labor landscape is changing, and it is transforming the global economy in ways that we cannot afford to ignore. Once-silent workers have found their voice, organizing momentous protests, such as the 2010 Honda strikes, and demanding a better deal. Chinas leaders have responded not only with repression but with reforms. Are Chinas workers on ...
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- IBTauris, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-463-9
EAN 9781784534639
One of the great figures of the twentieth century, Chairman Mao looms irrepressibly over the economic rise of China. Mao Zedong was the leader of a revolution, a communist who lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, an aggressive and distrustful leader, and a man responsible for more civilian deaths than perhaps any other historical ...
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Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea
The Roots of Militarism, 1866-1945
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 440 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-65986-5
EAN 9780674659865
For South Koreans, the twenty years from the early 1960s to late 1970s were the best and worst of times'a period of unprecedented economic growth and of political oppression that deepened as prosperity spread. In this masterly account, Carter J. Eckert finds the roots of South Koreas dramatic socioeconomic transformation in the countrys long history ...
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China's Crony Capitalism
The Dynamics of Regime Decay
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 376 páginas
PVP: 35,35 €
ISBN 978-0-674-73729-7
EAN 9780674737297
When Deng Xiaoping launched China on the path to economic reform in the late 1970s, he vowed to build socialism with Chinese characteristics. More than three decades later, China's efforts to modernize have yielded something very different from the working people's paradise Deng envisioned: an incipient kleptocracy, characterized by endemic corruption, soaring income inequality, and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 38,15 €
ISBN 978-0-226-38327-9
EAN 9780226383279
Discussions of China's early twentieth-century modernization efforts tend to focus almost exclusively on cities, and the changes, both cultural and industrial, seen there. As a result, the communist peasant revolution appears as a decisive historical break. Kate Merkel-Hess corrects that misconception by demonstrating how crucial the countryside was for reformers in rural China long before ...
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Tamil
A Biography
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 386 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-05992-4
EAN 9780674059924
Spoken by eighty million people in South Asia and a diaspora that stretches across the globe, Tamil is one of the great world languages, and one of the few ancient languages that survives as a mother tongue for so many speakers. David Shulman presents a comprehensive cultural history of Tamil'language, literature, and civilization'emphasizing how Tamil ...
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The Water Kingdom
A Secret History of China
- Bodley Head, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 24,70 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-355-4
EAN 9781847923554
It is selected as a Book of the Year by The Times and The Economist. A secret history of China - a fresh new way of thinking about a people, a civilization, an epic story. The Water Kingdom takes us on a grand journey through China's past and present, offering a unique window through which ...
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- Bodley Head, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-334-9
EAN 9781847923349
The West's domination of world politics is coming to a close. The flow of wealth and power is turning from West to East and a new era of global instability has begun. Easternisation is the defining trend of our age - the growing wealth of Asian nations is transforming the international balance of power.This shift ...
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