The Anarchy - The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple
$30.00 AUD
Category: Asian
'Dalrymple is a superb historian with a visceral understanding of India - A book of beauty' Gerard DeGroot, The Times In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish in his richest provinces a new administration run by English merchants who collected ...Show more
Leadership and the Rise of Great Powers by Xuetong Yan
$60.00 AUD
Category: Asian | Series: The\Princeton-China Ser.
A leading foreign policy thinker uses Chinese political theory to explain why some powers rise as others decline and what this means for the international orderWhile work in international relations has closely examined the decline of great powers, not much attention has been paid to the question of thei ...Show more
Japan Story: In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present by Christopher Harding
$25.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Japan Story is a fascinating, surprising account of Japan's culture, from the 'opening up' of the country in the mid 19th century to the present, through the eyes of people who always had their doubts about modernity - who greeted it not with the confidence and grasping ambition of Japan's familiar mode ...Show more
Shot Down: The Powerful Story of What Happened to MH17 over Ukraine and the Lives of Those Who Were on Board by Marianne van Velzen
$30.00 AUD
Category: Asian | Series: MH17
The first full telling of what happened to MH17 and the stories of those who were killed on that tragic day.
Chinese Spies by Roger Faligot
$40.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Chinese Spies is an astounding and unmatched source book on the extraordinary reach of the PRC’s intelligence network. Roger Faligot explains in colourful detail the complex links between the spy agencies, the Party, the Party leaders, Chinese companies and the People’s Liberation Army. At once fascinat ...Show more
Island off the Coast of Asia - Instruments of Statecraft in Australian Foreign Policy by Clinton Fernandes
$30.00 AUD
Category: Asian | Series: Investigating Power Ser.
Island off the Coast of Asia: Instruments of Statecraft in Australian Foreign Policy is an unprecedented 230-year Australian study that reveals the central role of economic actors in defining and pursuing the ‘national interest’. Australia’s search for security has meant much more than protection from m ...Show more
The Great Empires of Asia by Jim Masselos; Jonathan Fenby
$20.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Asian empires led the world economically, scientifically and culturally for hundreds of years, and posed a constant challenge to the countries of Europe. How and why did those empires gain such power, and lose it? What legacies did they leave? This major book brings together a team of distinguished his ...Show more
To Hell and Back - The Last Train from Hiroshima by Charles Pellegrino
$40.00 AUD
Category: Asian | Series: Asia/Pacific/Perspectives Ser.
Drawing on the voices of atomic bomb survivors and the new science of forensic archaeology, Charles Pellegrino describes the events and the aftermath of two days in August when nuclear devices, detonated over Japan, changed life on Earth forever. To Hell and Back offers readers a stunning, "you are ther ...Show more
Vietnam: a History by Stanley Karnow
$47.00 AUD
Category: Asian
This monumental narrative clarifies, analyzes, and demystifies the tragic ordeal of the Vietnam war. Free of ideological bias, profound in its understanding, and compassionate in its human portrayals, it is filled with fresh revelations drawn from secret documents and from exclusive interviews with the ...Show more
Barbarians at the Wall: The First Nomadic Empire and the Making of China by John Man
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
The people of the first nomadic empire left no written records, but from 200 BC they dominated the heart of Asia for 400 years. They changed the world. The Mongols, today?s descendants of Genghis Khan, see them as ancestors. Their rise cemented Chinese unity and inspired the first Great Wall. Their heir ...Show more
The Yao - The Mien and Mun Yao in China, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand by Jess G. Pourret
$120.00 AUD
Category: Asian
The Yao, a non Chinese minority moved most likely from the Yang Tse Basin many centuries ago to the Southern Chinese provinces of Hunan, Guizhou, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan. Possibly around the 13th century they pushed onwards to northern Vietnam then Laos and finally Thailand. Perhaps nine o ...Show more