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Asia in Transition (Hardcover): Arpita Basu Roy, Anita Sengupta, Suchandana Chatterjee Asia in Transition (Hardcover)
Arpita Basu Roy, Anita Sengupta, Suchandana Chatterjee
R1,562 Discovery Miles 15 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sasanian Persia - The Rise and Fall of an Empire (Hardcover): Touraj Daryaee Sasanian Persia - The Rise and Fall of an Empire (Hardcover)
Touraj Daryaee
R2,184 Discovery Miles 21 840 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Sasanians were the last of the ancient Persian dynasties, and the preeminent practitioners of the Zoroastrian religion. From its foundation by Ardashir I in 224 CE the Sasanian Empire was the dominant force in the region for several centuries until its last king, Yasdegerd III, was defeated by the Muslim Arabs in the 7th century. In this clear and comprehensive new book, Touraj Daryaee provides an unrivalled account of Sasanian Persia. Using new sources, he paints a vivid portrait of the empire's often neglected social history and examines the development of its political and administrative institutions. The author also explores, for the first time in an integrated book on the Sasanians, their descendants' attempts for more than a century after their defeat to establish a second state. "Sasanian Persia" is a unique examination of a period of history that still has great significance for a full understanding of modern Iran.

China's Strategic Partnerships in Latin America - Case Studies of China's Oil Diplomacy in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico,... China's Strategic Partnerships in Latin America - Case Studies of China's Oil Diplomacy in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela, 1991-2015 (Hardcover)
Yanran Xu
R2,526 Discovery Miles 25 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This study examines how China has developed a diplomatic mechanism to expand its international influence through the establishment of strategic partnerships. These strategic partnerships have sparked a debate among analysts. On the one hand, some optimistic studies applaud the win-win objective of China's foreign policy and portray China as a successful model for developing countries. On the other hand, more skeptical studies depict China as a rising imperial power that represents a competitive threat to Latin America. This book focuses on China's strategic partnerships with Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela within the oil sector. It stresses how Chinese strategic partnerships with each of these four countries have diverged across cases over time (1991-2015). The study finds that the strategic partnerships are asymmetrical in which China benefits more than four Latin American countries in a variety of aspects. I suggest Latin American countries to push for greater diversification of export agenda toward China, to develop new productive partnerships beyond traditional sectors and to increase the competitiveness of firms. Meanwhile, China's diplomatic actions toward Latin America are more than likely to result in forms of change, particularly across my four country cases, and where strategic partnerships are concerned.

Another South Asia (Hardcover): Dev Nath Pathak Another South Asia (Hardcover)
Dev Nath Pathak
R1,769 Discovery Miles 17 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
This is Minuteman - Two-Three... Go!: Memoirs of a Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan (Hardcover): Wayne Chasson This is Minuteman - Two-Three... Go!: Memoirs of a Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan (Hardcover)
Wayne Chasson; Edited by Rodney Miles
R864 R753 Discovery Miles 7 530 Save R111 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Impeaching the Impeachment - Justice for President Park Geun-Hye (Hardcover): Peter Pyungwoo Kim Impeaching the Impeachment - Justice for President Park Geun-Hye (Hardcover)
Peter Pyungwoo Kim
R879 Discovery Miles 8 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Longest Rescue - The Life and Legacy of Vietnam POW William A. Robinson (Paperback): Glenn Robins, Budday The Longest Rescue - The Life and Legacy of Vietnam POW William A. Robinson (Paperback)
Glenn Robins, Budday
R701 Discovery Miles 7 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

While serving as a crew chief aboard a U.S. Air Force Rescue helicopter, Airman First Class William A. Robinson was shot down and captured in Ha Tinh Province, North Vietnam, on September 20, 1965. After a brief stint at the "Hanoi Hilton," Robinson endured 2,703 days in multiple North Vietnamese prison camps, including the notorious Briarpatch and various compounds at Cu Loc, known by the inmates as the Zoo. No enlisted man in American military history has been held as a prisoner of war longer than Robinson. For seven and a half years, he faced daily privations and endured the full range of North Vietnam's torture program. In The Longest Rescue: The Life and Legacy of Vietnam POW William A. Robinson, Glenn Robins tells Robinson's story using an array of sources, including declassified U.S. military documents, translated Vietnamese documents, and interviews from the National Prisoner of War Museum. Unlike many other POW accounts, this comprehensive biography explores Robinson's life before and after his capture, particularly his estranged relationship with his father, enabling a better understanding of the difficult transition POWs face upon returning home and the toll exacted on their families. Robins's powerful narrative not only demonstrates how Robinson and his fellow prisoners embodied the dedication and sacrifice of America's enlisted men but also explores their place in history and memory.

State Failure in Sub-Saharan Africa - The Crisis of Post-Colonial Order (Hardcover): Catherine Scott State Failure in Sub-Saharan Africa - The Crisis of Post-Colonial Order (Hardcover)
Catherine Scott
R4,239 Discovery Miles 42 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

How should failed states in Africa be understood? Catherine Scott here critically engages with the concept of state failure and provides an historical reinterpretation. She shows that, although the concept emerged in the context of the post-Cold War new world order, the phenomenon has been attendant throughout (and even before) the development of the Westphalian state system. Contemporary failed states, however, differ from their historical counterparts in one fundamental respect: they fail within their existing borders and continue to be recognised as something that they are not. This peculiarity derives from international norms instituted in the era of decolonisation, which resulted in the inviolability of state borders and the supposed universality of statehood. Scott argues that contemporary failed states are, in fact, failed post-colonies. Thus understood, state failure is less the failure of existing states and more the failed rooting and institutionalisation of imported and reified models of Western statehood. Drawing on insights from the histories of Uganda and Burundi, from pre-colonial polity formation to the present day, she explores why and how there have been failures to create effective and legitimate national states within the bounds of inherited colonial jurisdictions on much of the African continent.

The YMCA in Late Colonial India - Modernization, Philanthropy and American Soft Power in South Asia (Hardcover): Harald... The YMCA in Late Colonial India - Modernization, Philanthropy and American Soft Power in South Asia (Hardcover)
Harald Fischer-Tine
R3,036 Discovery Miles 30 360 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book explores the history and agendas of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) through its activities in South Asia. Focusing on interactions between American 'Y' workers and the local population, representatives of the British colonial state, and a host of international actors, it assesses their impact on the making of modern India. In turn, it shows how the knowledge and experience acquired by the Y in South Asia had a significant impact on US foreign policy, diplomacy and development programs in the region from the mid-1940s. Exploring the 'secular' projects launched by the YMCA such as new forms of sport, philanthropic efforts and educational endeavours, The YMCA in Late Colonial India addresses broader issues about the persistent role of religion in global modernization processes, the accumulation of American soft power in Asia, and the entanglement of American imperialism with other colonial empires. It provides an unusually rich case study to explore how 'global civil society' emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, how it related to the prevailing imperial world order, and how cultural specificities affected the ways in which it unfolded. Offering fresh perspectives on the historical trajectories of America's 'moral empire', Christian internationalism and the history of international organizations more broadly, this book also gives an insight into the history of South Asia during an age of colonial reformism and decolonization. It shows how international actors contributed to the shaping of South Asia's modernity at this crucial point, and left a lasting legacy in the region.

U.S. Marines in the Gulf War, 1990-1991 - Liberating Kuwait (Hardcover): Paul W. Westermeyer U.S. Marines in the Gulf War, 1990-1991 - Liberating Kuwait (Hardcover)
Paul W. Westermeyer
R1,816 Discovery Miles 18 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
From Tokio Through Manchuria With the Japanese (Hardcover): Louis Livingston 1851-1932 Seaman From Tokio Through Manchuria With the Japanese (Hardcover)
Louis Livingston 1851-1932 Seaman
R975 Discovery Miles 9 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Bad Infidel - A Black Sheep Sergeant and the Deadly Politics of the War in Afghanistan (Hardcover): Natividad Shepherd Ruiz Bad Infidel - A Black Sheep Sergeant and the Deadly Politics of the War in Afghanistan (Hardcover)
Natividad Shepherd Ruiz
R791 Discovery Miles 7 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Frontier Encounters - Knowledge and Practice at the Russian, Chinese and Mongolian Border (Hardcover): Franck Bille, Gregory... Frontier Encounters - Knowledge and Practice at the Russian, Chinese and Mongolian Border (Hardcover)
Franck Bille, Gregory Delaplace, Caroline Humphrey
R1,205 Discovery Miles 12 050 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

China and Russia are rising economic and political powers that share thousands of miles of border. Despite their proximity, their interactions with each other - and with their third neighbour Mongolia - are rarely discussed. Although the three countries share a boundary, their traditions, languages and worldviews are remarkably different. Frontier Encounters presents a wide range of views on how the borders between these unique countries are enacted, produced, and crossed. It sheds light on global uncertainties: China's search for energy resources and the employment of its huge population, Russia's fear of Chinese migration, and the precarious independence of Mongolia as its neighbours negotiate to extract its plentiful resources. Bringing together anthropologists, sociologists and economists, this timely collection of essays offers new perspectives on an area that is currently of enormous economic, strategic and geo-political relevance.

Diary and Consultation Book ... [serial]; 3(1679/80) (Hardcover): Madras (India Presidency), Madras (India Presidency) Record O Diary and Consultation Book ... [serial]; 3(1679/80) (Hardcover)
Madras (India Presidency), Madras (India Presidency) Record O
R895 Discovery Miles 8 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Twelve Years of a Soldier's Life in India - Being Extracts From the Letters of the Late Major W. S. R. Hodson ..... Twelve Years of a Soldier's Life in India - Being Extracts From the Letters of the Late Major W. S. R. Hodson .. (Hardcover)
W S R (William Stephen Rai Hodson; George H. Hodson
R1,074 Discovery Miles 10 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Letters to Fort St. George ... [serial]; v.2(1682) c.1 (Hardcover): Madras (India Presidency), Madras (India Presidency) Record... Letters to Fort St. George ... [serial]; v.2(1682) c.1 (Hardcover)
Madras (India Presidency), Madras (India Presidency) Record O
R863 Discovery Miles 8 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Diary of Richard Cocks, Cape-merchant in the English Factory in Japan 1615-1622; v.2 (Hardcover): Richard D. 1624 Cocks, Edward... Diary of Richard Cocks, Cape-merchant in the English Factory in Japan 1615-1622; v.2 (Hardcover)
Richard D. 1624 Cocks, Edward Maunde Thompson
R975 Discovery Miles 9 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire (Hardcover, New): Mehrdad Kia Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire (Hardcover, New)
Mehrdad Kia
R2,118 Discovery Miles 21 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book provides a general overview of the daily life in a vast empire which contained numerous ethnic, linguistic, and religious communities. The Ottoman Empire was an Islamic imperial monarchy that existed for over 600 years. At the height of its power in the 16th and 17th centuries, it encompassed three continents and served as the core of global interactions between the east and the west. And while the Empire was defeated after World War I and dissolved in 1920, the far-reaching effects and influences of the Ottoman Empire are still clearly visible in today's world cultures. Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire allows readers to gain critical insight into the pluralistic social and cultural history of an empire that ruled a vast region extending from Budapest in Hungary to Mecca in Arabia. Each chapter presents an in-depth analysis of a particular aspect of daily life in the Ottoman Empire. The extensive bibliography provides rich and diverse sources of further reading An index provides quick reference to the individuals and places mentioned in the text

The Biggest Stick - The Employment of Artillery Units in Counterinsurgency (Art of War Papers Series) (Hardcover): Richard B... The Biggest Stick - The Employment of Artillery Units in Counterinsurgency (Art of War Papers Series) (Hardcover)
Richard B Johnson; Introduction by Daniel Marston; Combat Studies Institute Press
R975 Discovery Miles 9 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This study uses a comparative analysis of the Malayan Emergency, the American experience in Vietnam, and Operation IRAQI FREEDOM to examine the role and effectiveness of artillery units in complex counterinsurgency environments. Through this analysis, four factors emerge which impact the employment of artillery units: the counterinsurgency effort's requirement for indirect fires; constraints and limitations on indirect fires; the counterinsurgency effort's force organization; and the conversion cost of nonstandard roles for artillery units. In conclusion, the study offers five broadly descriptive fundamentals for employing artillery units in a counterinsurgency environment: invest in tactical leadership, exploit lessons learned, support the operational approach and strategic framework, maintain pragmatic fire support capability, and minimize collateral damage. Finally, the study examines the role of education for leaders in a counterinsurgency, and its influence on these imperative fundamentals.

Morning Star Rising - The Politics of Decolonization in West Papua (Hardcover): Camellia Webb-Gannon Morning Star Rising - The Politics of Decolonization in West Papua (Hardcover)
Camellia Webb-Gannon; Series edited by Noelani Goodyear-KaaEURO~A pua, April Henderson
R2,312 R2,073 Discovery Miles 20 730 Save R239 (10%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

That Indonesia's ongoing occupation of West Papua continues to be largely ignored by world governments is one of the great moral and political failures of our time. West Papuans have struggled for more than fifty years to find a way through the long night of Indonesian colonization. However, united in their pursuit of merdeka (freedom) in its many forms, what holds West Papuans together is greater than what divides them. Today, the Morning Star glimmers on the horizon, the supreme symbol of merdeka and a cherished sign of hope for the imminent arrival of peace and justice to West Papua. Morning Star Rising: The Politics of Decolonization in West Papua is an ethnographically framed account of the long, bitter fight for freedom that challenges the dominant international narrative that West Papuans' quest for political independence is fractured and futile. Camellia Webb-Gannon's extensive interviews with the decolonization movements' original architects and its more recent champions shed light on complex diasporic and inter-generational politics as well as social and cultural resurgence. In foregrounding West Papuans' perspectives, the author shows that it is the body politic's unflagging determination and hope, rather than military might or influential allies, that form the movement's most unifying and powerful force for independence. This book examines the many intertwining strands of decolonization in Melanesia. Differences in cultural performance and political diversity throughout the region are generating new, fruitful trajectories. Simultaneously, Black and Indigenous solidarity and a shared Melanesian identity have forged a transnational grassroots power-base from which the movement is gaining momentum. Relevant beyond its West Papua focus, this book is essential reading for those interested in Pacific studies, Native and Indigenous studies, development studies, activism, and decolonization.

Travel and Artisans in the Ottoman Empire - Employment and Mobility in the Early Modern Era (Hardcover): Suraiya Faroqhi Travel and Artisans in the Ottoman Empire - Employment and Mobility in the Early Modern Era (Hardcover)
Suraiya Faroqhi
R4,593 Discovery Miles 45 930 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

It has often been assumed that the subjects of the Ottoman sultans were unable to travel beyond their localities - since peasants needed the permission of their local administrators before they could leave their villages. According to this view, only soldiers and members of the governing elite would have been free to travel. However, Suraiya Faroqhi's extensive archival research shows that this was not the case; pious men from all walks of life went on pilgrimage to Mecca, slaves fled from their masters and craftspeople travelled in search of work. Most travellers in the Ottoman era headed for Istanbul in search of better prospects and even in peacetime the Ottoman administration recruited artisans to repair fortresses and sent them far away from their home towns. In this book, Suraiya Faroqhi provides a revisionist study of those artisans who chose - or were obliged - to travel and those who stayed predominantly in their home localities. She considers the occasions and conditions which triggered travel among the artisans, and the knowledge that they had of the capital as a spatial entity. She shows that even those craftsmen who did not travel extensively had some level of mobility and that the Ottoman sultans and viziers, who spent so much effort in attempting to control the movements of their subjects, could often only do so within very narrow limits. Challenging existing historiography and providing an important new revisionist perspective, this book will be essential reading for students and scholars of Ottoman history.

Connected Stories - Contacts, Traditions and Transmissions in Premodern Mediterranean Islam (Hardcover): Mohamed Meouak,... Connected Stories - Contacts, Traditions and Transmissions in Premodern Mediterranean Islam (Hardcover)
Mohamed Meouak, Cristina Puente
R3,866 Discovery Miles 38 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Concepts such as influence, imitation, emulation, transmission or plagiarism are transcendental to cultural history and the subject of universal debate. They are not mere labels imposed by modern historiography on ancient texts, nor are they the result of a later interpretation of ways of transmitting and teaching, but are concepts defined and discussed internally, within all cultures, since time immemorial, which have yielded very diverse results. In the case of culture, or better Arab-Islamic cultures, we could analyze and discuss endlessly numerous terms that refer to concepts related to the multiple ways of perceiving the Other, receiving his knowledge and producing new knowledge. The purpose of this book evolves around these concepts, and it aims to become part of a very long tradition of studies on this subject that is essential to the understanding of the processes of reception and creation. The authors analyze them in depth through the use of examples that are based on the well-known idea that societies in different regions did not remain isolated and indifferent to the literary, religious or scientific creations that were developed in other territories and moreover that the flow of ideas did not always occur in only one direction. Contacts, both voluntary and involuntary, are never incidental or marginal, but are rather the true engine of the evolution of knowledge and creation. It can also be stated that it has been the awareness of the existence of multidimensional cultural relations which has allowed modern historiography on Arab cultures to evolve and be enriched in recent decades.

Routledge Handbook of Contemporary North Korea (Paperback): Adrian Buzo Routledge Handbook of Contemporary North Korea (Paperback)
Adrian Buzo
R1,446 Discovery Miles 14 460 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

With its focus on internal North Korean affairs rather than international relations, the book constitutes a broad and useful addition to Northeast Asia area studies. The book provides detailed coverage of such key issues as North Korea's nuclear weapons program and its economic reforms Many of the contributors belong to a younger cadre of North Korean specialist scholars and bring new perspectives to this field

Vietnam Helicopter Crew Member Stories - Volume 1 (Hardcover): H.D. Graham Vietnam Helicopter Crew Member Stories - Volume 1 (Hardcover)
H.D. Graham
R794 R710 Discovery Miles 7 100 Save R84 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Too Young to Vote But Old Enough to Kill (Hardcover): Df Ryschka Too Young to Vote But Old Enough to Kill (Hardcover)
Df Ryschka
R1,356 Discovery Miles 13 560 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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