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The Party Empire - Saga of a Nightmare (Hardcover): H.Yuan Tien The Party Empire - Saga of a Nightmare (Hardcover)
H.Yuan Tien
R741 Discovery Miles 7 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Cultural Tourism in Marwar Region of Thar Desert (Hardcover): Mohanlal Gupta Cultural Tourism in Marwar Region of Thar Desert (Hardcover)
Mohanlal Gupta
R1,050 Discovery Miles 10 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Marine Corps Tanks and Ontos in Vietnam - Book Three - 1969 to 1970+ (Hardcover): Ltcol Ray Stewart Usmc Marine Corps Tanks and Ontos in Vietnam - Book Three - 1969 to 1970+ (Hardcover)
Ltcol Ray Stewart Usmc
R1,014 Discovery Miles 10 140 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Japan's Postwar Military and Civil Society - Contesting a Better Life (Hardcover): Tomoyuki Sasaki Japan's Postwar Military and Civil Society - Contesting a Better Life (Hardcover)
Tomoyuki Sasaki
R4,579 Discovery Miles 45 790 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Japan's so-called 'peace constitution' renounces war as a sovereign right of the nation, and bans the nation from possessing any war potential. Yet Japan also maintains a large, world-class military organization, namely the Self-Defence Forces (SDF). In this book, Tomoyuki Sasaki explores how the SDF enlisted popular support from civil society and how civil society responded to the growth of the SDF. Japan's Postwar Military and Civil Society details the interactions between the SDF and civil society over four decades, from the launch of rearmament in 1950. These interactions include recruitment, civil engineering, disaster relief, anti-SDF litigation, state financial support for communities with bases, and a fear-mongering campaign against the Soviet Union. By examining these wide-range issues, the book demonstrates how the militarization of society advanced as the SDF consolidated its ideological and socio-economic ties with civil society and its role as a defender of popular welfare. While postwar Japan is often depicted as a peaceful society, this book challenges such a view, and illuminates the prominent presence of the military in people's everyday lives.

Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.; new ser - v.16 (1920) (Hardcover): Calcutta India Asiatick Society Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.; new ser - v.16 (1920) (Hardcover)
Calcutta India Asiatick Society
R1,077 Discovery Miles 10 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The League of Nations and the East Asian Imperial Order, 1920-1946 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Harumi Goto-Shibata The League of Nations and the East Asian Imperial Order, 1920-1946 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Harumi Goto-Shibata
R1,494 Discovery Miles 14 940 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Well-grounded on abundant Japanese language sources which have been underused, this book uncovers the League of Nations' works in East Asia in the inter-war period. By researching the field of social and other technical issues, namely, the trade in narcotics, the trafficking of women and the work in terms of improving health provision and providing economic advice to Nationalist China, it not only examines their long-term impacts on the international relations in the region but also argues that the League's works challenged the existing imperial order of East and Southeast Asia. The book offers a key read for academics and students of international history and international relations, and others studying Japan or East Asia in the twentieth century.

Mahadevi Varma - Political Essays on Women, Culture, and Nation (Hardcover, New): Mahadevi Varma Mahadevi Varma - Political Essays on Women, Culture, and Nation (Hardcover, New)
Mahadevi Varma; Edited by Anita Anantharam
R2,582 Discovery Miles 25 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This edited volume of translations covers the major political essays of India's first feminist Hindi poet. A devout follower and advocate of Gandhi, Mahadevi Varma is a household name in India and is a major woman of letters in the modern Hindi world. The essays collected in this volume represent some of Mahadevi Varma s most famous writings on the woman question in India. The collection also includes an introduction to her life, with biographical notes, an analysis of her importance in the field of Hindi letters, as well as a selection of her poems these latter because Mahadevi Varma made her mark in the world of Hindi literature through her poetry, and a volume of translations would be incomplete without a sampling of them. The introduction to the translated volume sketches Mahadevi Varma's life and work and her significance to both the development of modern standard Hindi as well as to the nascent women's movement underway in the 1920s in India. Little scholarly attention has been given in the academy outside of India to Varma s numerous contributions to women s education, to the development of modern standard Hindi, and to political thought during the Independence movement in late-colonial India. This volume of translations engages themes like language and nationalism, women s roles as artists, the politics of motherhood and marriage themes that continue to be relevant to women s lives in contemporary India and to movements for women s rights outside India as well. This volume of translations of Mahadevi Varma s feminist political essays is the first of its kind. While some of these essays, especially those from Mahadevi Varma s Hamari Shrinkhala Ki Kariyan collection have been translated by Neera K. Sohoni and published under the title Links in the Chain (Katha, 2003), there is no sustained treatment of Varma s political thinking in one, accessible volume. While there is ample work on Varma in Hindi, scholars of feminism (and students of Hindi who are in the nascent stages of language acquisition) have nowhere to turn for a comprehensive sampling of her work. Mahadevi Varma is also one of the most difficult writers to access even for trained scholars of Hindi language and literature. Her highly Sanskritized diction and her stylized prose sketches make her work a pleasure to read in the original but daunting to translate into English. This volume has contributions from some of the most highly regarded Hindi experts. In the editor s introduction to the volume of translations a brief biographical sketch followed by an analysis of the political climate of Northern India has been provided so that the reader unfamiliar with India of the 1920s-1940s will have the necessary historical context to place her work. The introduction to the volume also raises the issue of why she gave up writing poetry and turned solely to writing prose when she became involved with the movements for women s rights and national independence. Finally, the volume provides feminist cultural historians a rich archive of how Indian women like Mahadevi Varma were actively negotiating their lives as women, activists, artists, teachers, and married women. This work will be of use to scholars of Hindi language and literature in the US/European academy and should be of interest to cultural and feminist historians of modern India. This volume will introduce Mahadevi Varma s literary scope to an English-speaking audience, and will serve as a reference for feminist historians of the nationalist period in the Indian subcontinent.

The Iraq War Encyclopedia (Hardcover, New): Thomas R. Mockaitis The Iraq War Encyclopedia (Hardcover, New)
Thomas R. Mockaitis
R3,343 Discovery Miles 33 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This reference work is an ideal resource for anyone interested in better understanding the controversial Iraq War. It treats the war in its entirety, covering politics, religion, and history, as well as military issues. The Iraq War started in 2003 in a quest to rid the nation of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) that were never found. It lasted over 8 years, during which more than 30,000 U.S. service members were wounded and almost 4,500 American lives lost. Comprised of some 275 entries, this comprehensive encyclopedia examines the war from multiple points of view. Each article is written by an expert with specialized knowledge of the topic. The reference covers every aspect of the Iraq War, from the U.S. invasion (Operation IRAQI FREEDOM) through the rise of Al Qaeda in Iraq, the surge, and the U.S. withdrawal. Other significant aspects of the conflict are addressed as well, including Abu Ghraib, WMDs, the controversial use of private military contractors, and Britain's role in the war. The book also features an overview essay, a "causes and consequences" essay, maps, photos, a chronology, and a bibliography.

Syriac Literature - An English Translation of <i>La Litterature Syriaque</i> (Hardcover): Olivier Holmey, M. Duval Syriac Literature - An English Translation of <i>La Litterature Syriaque</i> (Hardcover)
Olivier Holmey, M. Duval
R2,400 Discovery Miles 24 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Despite having been written over a century ago, the 3rd edition of Rubens Duval's History of Syriac Literature remains one of the best - and most readable - introductions to Syriac literature. This edition provides the first English translation of the work, translated by Olivier Holmey.

Classical Writings of the Medieval Islamic World - Persian Histories of the Mongol Dynasties Volume 3 (Hardcover): Mirzar... Classical Writings of the Medieval Islamic World - Persian Histories of the Mongol Dynasties Volume 3 (Hardcover)
Mirzar Haydar Dughlat, Khwandamir, Rashiduddin Fazlullah; Translated by W. M Thackston
R5,359 Discovery Miles 53 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume presents one of the most important historical sources for medieval Islamic scholarship: The Compendium of Chronicles, written by the vizier to the Mongol Ilkhans of Iran, Rashiduddin Fazlullah. It includes a valuable survey of the Turkic and Mongolian peoples, a history of Genghis Khan's ancestors, and a detailed account of his conquests. Distinguished linguist and orientalist, Wheeler M. Thackston, provides a lucid, annotated translation that makes this key material accessible to a wide range of scholars.

Of Merchants and Missions (Hardcover): Andrew Peh Of Merchants and Missions (Hardcover)
Andrew Peh; Foreword by Robert Solomon
R1,608 R1,317 Discovery Miles 13 170 Save R291 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Social Memory and State Formation in Early China (Hardcover): Min Li Social Memory and State Formation in Early China (Hardcover)
Min Li
R4,069 Discovery Miles 40 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this book, Li Min proposes a new paradigm for the foundation and emergence of the classical tradition in early China, from the late Neolithic through the Zhou period. Using a wide range of historical and archaeological data, he explains the development of ritual authority and particular concepts of kingship over time in relation to social memory. His volume weaves together the major benchmarks in the emergence of the classical tradition, particularly how legacies of prehistoric interregional interactions, state formation, urban florescence and collapse during the late third and the second millenniums BCE laid the critical foundation for the Sandai notion of history among Zhou elite. Moreover, the literary-historical accounts of the legendary Xia Dynasty in early China reveal a cultural construction involving social memories of the past and subsequent political elaborations in various phases of history. This volume enables a new understanding on the long-term processes that enabled a classical civilization in China to take shape.

Evaluation and Stance in War News - A Linguistic Analysis of American, British and Italian television news reporting of the... Evaluation and Stance in War News - A Linguistic Analysis of American, British and Italian television news reporting of the 2003 Iraqi war (Hardcover)
Louann Haarman, Linda Lombardo
R5,950 Discovery Miles 59 500 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Using the 2003 war in Iraq as an illustrative tool for highlighting the impact which advances in communication systems have had on message relays, this book comes as a useful tool kit for enabling a critical evaluation of the way language is used in the news.In a world in which advanced communication technologies have made the reporting of disasters and conflicts (also in the form of breaking news) a familiar and 'normalised' activity, the information presented here about television news reporting of the 2003 war in Iraq has implications that go beyond this particular conflict."Evaluation and Stance in War News" functions as a tool kit for the critical evaluation of language in the news, both as raw data in need of interpretation and as carefully packaged products of 'information management' in need of 'unpacking'. The chapters offer an array of theoretical and empirical instruments for revealing, identifying, sifting, weighing and connecting patterns of language use that construct messages. These messages carry with them world views and value systems that can either create an ever wider divide or serve to build bridges between peoples and countries.The Editorial Board includes: Paul Baker (Lancaster), Frantisek Cermak (Prague), Susan Conrad (Portland), Geoffrey Leech (Lancaster), Dominique Maingueneau (Paris XII), Christian Mair (Freiburg), Alan Partington (Bologna), Elena Tognini-Bonelli (Lecce and TWC), Ruth Wodak (Lancaster and Vienna), and Feng Zhiwei (Beijing). "The Corpus and Discourse" series consists of two strands. The first, Research in Corpus and Discourse, features innovative contributions to various aspects of corpus linguistics and a wide range of applications, from language technology via the teaching of a second language to a history of mentalities. The second strand, Studies in Corpus and Discourse, is comprised of key texts bridging the gap between social studies and linguistics. Although equally academically rigorous, this strand will be aimed at a wider audience of academics and postgraduate students working in both disciplines.

The Wood Bracelet (Hardcover): Dan C. Pak The Wood Bracelet (Hardcover)
Dan C. Pak
R933 Discovery Miles 9 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Korean-American Stories - Collection of Autobiographies (Hardcover): Ariel Raimundo Choi Korean-American Stories - Collection of Autobiographies (Hardcover)
Ariel Raimundo Choi; Contributions by William Mun, Hyangi Lee
R2,763 Discovery Miles 27 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Brigade - An Epic Story of Vengeance, Salvation, and World War II (Paperback): Howard Blum, Inc Hardscrabble Entertainment The Brigade - An Epic Story of Vengeance, Salvation, and World War II (Paperback)
Howard Blum, Inc Hardscrabble Entertainment
R517 R482 Discovery Miles 4 820 Save R35 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

November 1944. The British government finally agrees to send a brigade of 5,000 Jewish volunteers from Palestine to Europe to fight the German army. But when the war ends and the soldiers witness firsthand the horrors their people have suffered in the concentration camps, the men launch a brutal and calculating campaign of vengeance, forming secret squads to identify, locate, and kill Nazi officers in hiding. Their own ferocity threatens to overwhelm them until a fortuitous encounter with an orphaned girl sets the men on a course of action -- rescuing Jewish war orphans and transporting them to Palestine -- that will not only change their lives but also help create a nation and forever alter the course of world history.

Expendable Warriors - The Battle of Khe Sanh and the Vietnam War (Hardcover): Bruce B. G. Clarke Expendable Warriors - The Battle of Khe Sanh and the Vietnam War (Hardcover)
Bruce B. G. Clarke
R1,836 Discovery Miles 18 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For those with a vivid memory of the Vietnam war, there is consolation in knowing that the impact of that war altered and shaped politics and warfare for the next generations. But in that altering we must take the lessons and apply them to new situations, new challenges and new policy dilemmas. To fail to do so would mean that the warriors at Khe Sanh and all of Vietnam were truly expendable, The battle of Khe Sanh was won and the Vietnam war was lost at the same time. Expendable Warriors describes at multiple levels the soldiers and marines who were expendable in the American political chaos of Vietnam, 1968. On January 21, 1968, nine days before the Tet offensive, tens of thousands of North Vietnamese regulars began the attacks on the Khe Sanh plateau, which led to the siege of the Khe Sanh Combat Base. Gen. Westmoreland was fully aware that the North Vietnamese would attack but he declined to alert or warn the small unit of American soldiers and marines serving at Khe Sanh in an advisory capacity, considering them expendable in the greater strategy. Not just an analysis of the battle, Expendable Warriors also ponders the question of how to win an unpopular war on foreign soil, linking battlefield events to political reality.

Lord Clive and the Establishment of the English in India (Hardcover): G B (George Bruce) 1825- Malleson Lord Clive and the Establishment of the English in India (Hardcover)
G B (George Bruce) 1825- Malleson
R928 Discovery Miles 9 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The History of the Contractual Thoughts in Ancient China (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Yunsheng Liu The History of the Contractual Thoughts in Ancient China (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Yunsheng Liu
R2,889 Discovery Miles 28 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores the intellectual history of contract law in ancient China by employing archaeological and empirical methodologies. Divided into five chapters, it begins by reviewing the origin of the contract in ancient China, and analyzing its name, primary form, historical premise and functions. The second chapter discusses free will and lawfulness in the establishment of a contract, offering insights into the impact of contracts on social justice. In turn, the third chapter addresses the inner core of the contract: validity and liability. This allows readers at all levels to identify the similarities and differences between contracts from different eras and different parts of the world, which will also benefit those pursuing comparative research in related fields. Chapters four and five offer a philosophical exploration of contract history in ancient China, and analyze key aspects including human nature and ethical justice.

The Transnational Redress Movement for the Victims of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery (Hardcover): Pyong Gap Min, Thomas... The Transnational Redress Movement for the Victims of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery (Hardcover)
Pyong Gap Min, Thomas Chung, Sejung Sage Yim
R3,098 Discovery Miles 30 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book examines the redress movement for the victims of Japanese military sexual slavery in South Korea, Japan, and the U.S. comprehensively. The Japanese military forcefully mobilized about 80,000-200,000 Asian women to Japanese military brothels and forced them into sexual slavery during the Asian-Pacific War (1932-1945). Korean "comfort women" are believed to have been the largest group because of Korea's colonial status. The redress movement for the victims started in South Korea in the late 1980s. The emergence of Korean "comfort women" to society to tell the truth beginning in 1991 and the discovery of Japanese historical documents, proving the responsibility of the Japanese military for establishing and operating military brothels by a Japanese historian in 1992 accelerated the redress movement for the victims. The movement has received strong support from UN human rights bodies, the U.S. and other Western countries. It has also greatly contributed to raising people's consciousness of sexual violence against women at war. However, the Japanese government has not made a sincere apology and compensation to the victims to bring justice to the victims.

Japan in the World - Shidehara Kijuro, Pacifism, and the Abolition of War (Hardcover): Klaus Schlichtmann Japan in the World - Shidehara Kijuro, Pacifism, and the Abolition of War (Hardcover)
Klaus Schlichtmann
R3,528 R3,164 Discovery Miles 31 640 Save R364 (10%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The twentieth century is as remarkable for its world wars as it is for its efforts to outlaw war in international and constitutional law and politics. Japan in the World examines some of these efforts through the life and work of Shidehara Kijuro, who was active as diplomat and statesman between 1896 until his death in 1951. Shidehara is seen as a guiding thread running through the first five decades of the twentieth century. Through the 1920s until the beginning of the 1930s, his foreign policy shaped Japan's place within the community of nations. The positive role Japan played in international relations and the high esteem in which it was held at that time goes largely to his credit. As Prime Minister and "man of the hour" after the Second World War, he had a hand in shaping the new beginning for post-war Japan, instituting policies that would start his country on a path to peace and prosperity. Accessing previously unpublished archival materials, Schlichtmann examines the work of this pacifist statesman, situating Shidehara within the context of twentieth century statecraft and international politics. While it was an age of devastating total wars that took a vast toll of civilian lives, the politics and diplomatic history between 1899 and 1949 also saw the light of new developments in international and constitutional law to curtail state sovereignty and reach a peaceful order of international affairs. Japan in the World is an essential resource for understanding that nation's contributions to these world-changing developments.

Journal of the North-China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society for the Year ..; v.52 (1921) (Hardcover): Royal Asiatic Society... Journal of the North-China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society for the Year ..; v.52 (1921) (Hardcover)
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britai
R931 Discovery Miles 9 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Classical Writings of the Medieval Islamic World - Persian Histories of the Mongol Dynasties Volume 2 (Hardcover): Mirzar... Classical Writings of the Medieval Islamic World - Persian Histories of the Mongol Dynasties Volume 2 (Hardcover)
Mirzar Haydar Dughlat, Khwandamir, Rashiduddin Fazlullah
R5,374 Discovery Miles 53 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume presents one of the most important historical sources for medieval Islamic scholarship - Khwandamir's "The Reign of the Mongol and the Turk". It covers the major empires and dynasties of the Persianate world from the 13th to the 16th century, including the conquests of the Mongols, Tamerlane, and the rise of the Safavids. Distinguished linguist and orientalist, Wheeler M. Thackston, provides a lucid, annotated translation that makes this key material accessible to a wide range of scholars.

Secret Soldiers of the Second Army (Hardcover): Leslie A. Chapman Secret Soldiers of the Second Army (Hardcover)
Leslie A. Chapman
R858 Discovery Miles 8 580 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The book starts out picturing a young man who foolishly wants to go to war where he in vision's himself receiving all these high class medals for heroism but never once taking into account what it is going to take physically and mentally to get those medals. He's constantly playing a head game within himself and those that surround him. He like so many other young men of past eras are trying to be something that they're not and that small initial lie grows into a tremendous reputation that he has to live with and soon regrets that he's known by such. Come walk with the author and his brothers of the sword through the dark, humid, unforgiving jungles of Vietnam and experience the death, destruction, and mental sacrificial anguish they had to endure. Come see why you fear being alone in the denseness of a jungle or a forest that you have never entered before. Feel the heat of the Asian jungle floor intermixed with the leaches, ants, mosquitoes, snakes and humans searching you out only to destroy you at any cost. You see our author starts out innocently enough but soon finds out that war is not only a physical hardship demanding its pounds of flesh, but also is a horrendous mental agonizing hazard from which there is only one means of escape and/or retreat. That means to an end is death. Yes the author and his brothers of the sword will take their heroic missions and sacrificial allegiances to the grave with them. But, the real tragedy of it all is no one really cares about them in the first place. For they were and still are the "Secret Soldiers of the Second Army" willing to go anywhere, any time, to do the impossible for the ungrateful.

Eisenhower and American Public Opinion on China (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Mara Oliva Eisenhower and American Public Opinion on China (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Mara Oliva
R2,873 Discovery Miles 28 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the 1950s, most of the American public opposed diplomatic and trade relations with Communist China; traditional historiography blames this widespread hostility for the tensions between China and the United States during Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency. In this book, Mara Oliva reconsiders the influence of U.S. public opinion on Sino-American relations, arguing that it is understudied and often misinterpreted. She shows how the Eisenhower administration's hard line policy towards Beijing had been formulated in line with U.S. national security interests, not as a result of public pressure. However, the public did play a significant role in shaping the implementation, timing and political communication of Washington's strategy, ultimately hampering relations with the Communist giant and seriously heightening the risk of nuclear conflict. Drawing together an extensive array of published and unpublished sources, this book offers a new prism for understanding one of the most difficult decades in the history of both countries.

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