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By: Christopher Bayly
ISBN: 9780140293319
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2005
UK Publication Date: 4th August 2005
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Effectively it is the story of the birth of modern South and South- East Asia and the hopes and fears of the dozens of armies' marching through the jungle battlefields.
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By: Christopher Bayly
ISBN: 9780141017389
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2008
UK Publication Date: 31st January 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Provides an account of the creation of an Asia after the Second World War - an unstoppable wave of nationalism that swept the British Empire aside. This book tells the story of how India, Pakistan, Burma and Malaysia came into existence and how British interference in Vietnam and Indonesia fatally shaped those countries' futures.
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By: Sanjukta Sunderason
ISBN: 9781350179172
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Sanjukta Sunderason
ISBN: 9781350230088
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Michael Psellus
ISBN: 9780140441697
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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This chronicle of the Byzantine Empire, beginning in 1025, shows a profound understanding of the power politics that characterized the empire and led to its decline.
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By: Aung San Suu Kyi
ISBN: 9780141039497
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2010
UK Publication Date: 4th February 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Collects writings from the Nobel Peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi. Bringing together her powerful speeches, letters and interviews, this collection gives a voice to Burma's 'woman of destiny', whose fate remains in the hands of her enemies.
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By: Kerry Brown
ISBN: 9781843317814
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2009
Publisher: Anthem Press
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'Friends and Enemies' delivers a thorough account of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), explaining its origins and evolution, looking at options for its future, and laying bare its inner workings.
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By: Taka Oshikiri
ISBN: 9781350014015
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Taka Oshikiri
ISBN: 9781350143784
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Mire Koikari
ISBN: 9781350122499
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Mire Koikari
ISBN: 9781350212992
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: A. B. Feuer
ISBN: 9780275943530
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 1992
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Contains the diary of Captain Haynes, who flew low-altitude radar bombing missions in the South China Sea during World War II, using secretly-developed B-24s which operated with General Chennault's Flying Tigers. Their devastation of Japanese vessels hastened the end of the war in the Pacific.
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By: Stephen Turnbull
ISBN: 9781841765235
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2003
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A historical account of the Mongol conquests of 1190-1400, including the rise of Genghis Khan and the unification of the tribes. It examines the strategies, tactics and logistics that enabled the Mongols to fight successfully against enemies as far apart as Prussia and Korea.
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By: George Lane
ISBN: 9780313325281
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2004
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The Mongols are often associated with the arts of warfare and annals of horror, but a more realistic association would be their contribution to international trade and cultural exchange during the medieval age.
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By: Anthony Webster
ISBN: 9781350182318
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: James Salter
ISBN: 9781593760793
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2005
Publisher: Counterpoint
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A singular life often circles around a singular moment, an occasion when one's life in the world is defined forever and the emotional vocabulary set. For writer James Salter, this moment was contained in the fighter planes over Korea where, during his young manhood, he flew more than one hundred missions.
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By: Bal Ram Nanda
ISBN: 9780691602868
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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In this full biography of Gopal Krishna Gokhale reassesses the Indian political scene during the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth. In focusing on the career of the preeminent leader of his time, B. R. Nanda surveys the Indian Nationalist movement during the years 1885-1915 and especially the developments
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By: Bal Ram Nanda
ISBN: 9780691632315
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Theodore Trefon
ISBN: 9781786991409
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A vivid and inspiring account of a Congolese city at the centre of international aid efforts, as told through the everyday struggles of its people.
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By: George McGilvary
ISBN: 9781350176157
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Matthew Heaslip
ISBN: 9781350213562
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Matthew Heaslip
ISBN: 9781350176188
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: S. P. Udayakumar
ISBN: 9780275968434
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This work aims to explain the various ethnic conflicts in South Asia and other parts of the world. The role of history, narratives, and violent pathologies is also explained. Some of the most prominent South Asian conflicts - such as the "Ramjanmabhumi temple" - are analyzed in detail.
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By: Mandaley Perkins
ISBN: 9780732281977
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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Michel L'Herpiniere is a teenager when he arrives in Indochina in the years before WWII. He falls in love with the country and the people, but gradually becomes aware that what is an idyll for the French is not seen the same way by the local population. This is a memoir of a young man growing up during the years of French rule in Vietnam.
