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Grounds of Judgment - Extraterritoriality and Imperial Power in Nineteenth-Century China and Japan (Hardcover, New): P'Ar... Grounds of Judgment - Extraterritoriality and Imperial Power in Nineteenth-Century China and Japan (Hardcover, New)
P'Ar Kristoffer Cassel
R1,677 Discovery Miles 16 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Grounds of Judgment reopens the question of consular jurisdiction and extraterritoriality in China and Japan. The book combines recent findings in Qing history on the nature of ethnicity and law with the history of the treaty ports in both China and Japan, especially Shanghai, Yokohama and Nagasaki. Extraterritoriality was not implanted into East Asia as a ready-made product, but developed in a dialogue with local precedents, local understandings of power, and local institutions, which are best understood within the complex triangular relationship between China, Japan and the West. A close reading of treaty texts and other relevant documents suggests that a Qing institution for the adjudication for Manchu-Chinese disputes served as the model for both the International Mixed Court in Shanghai and the extraterritorial arrangements in Sino-Japanese Treaty of Tianjin in 1871. The adaptability of Qing legal procedure provided for a relatively seamless transition into the treaty port era, which would have momentous consequences for China's national sovereignty in the twentieth century. There was no parallel to this development in the Japanese case. Instead, Japanese authorities chose not to integrate consular courts and mixed courts into the indigenous legal order, and as a consequence, consular jurisdiction remained an alien body in the Japanese state, and Japanese policymakers were determined to keep it that way.

The History of Ancient Chinese Measures and Weights (Hardcover, New): Qiu Guangming The History of Ancient Chinese Measures and Weights (Hardcover, New)
Qiu Guangming
R3,029 Discovery Miles 30 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Qiu Guangming, the author of this book, has been a researcher on the measuring and weighing systems in China for more thirty years. He has been collecting historical data and examining actual objects, which has resulted in numerous research papers and books. This book examines the systems she has researched.

Guide to Turkey for History Travellers (Paperback): Bob Fowke Guide to Turkey for History Travellers (Paperback)
Bob Fowke; Illustrated by Bob Fowke
R255 Discovery Miles 2 550 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East (Paperback): Marco Polo The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East (Paperback)
Marco Polo; Edited by George B. Banks
R353 Discovery Miles 3 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Marco Polo (c.1254-1324) was an Italian merchant traveler from the Republic of Venice whose travels are recorded in Livres des merveilles du monde, a book which did much to introduce Europeans to Central Asia and China. With his father and uncle, Niccolo and Maffeo, he traveled on an epic journey through Asia and returned after 24 years to find Venice at war with Genoa. Imprisoned on his return, Marco was imprisoned and dictated his stories to a cellmate.

Yemen Proud - Past and Present (Paperback): Gamiel Yafai, Abdulalem Alshamery Yemen Proud - Past and Present (Paperback)
Gamiel Yafai, Abdulalem Alshamery
R432 R395 Discovery Miles 3 950 Save R37 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An introduction to the rich history of Yemen and its strong relationship with Britain - from the first Yemeni sailors who immigrated to Britain in the 19th century, to the British Crown colony in Aden and right up to the integration of Yemeni communities into British society today. The Yemeni community has been a part of British society since the late 1890's and was one of the first Muslim communities to settle here. British Yemenis have lived here for over 100 years, fighting for Britain in both world wars and contributing to British society in many other ways. This book is a celebration of their achievements.

The People of Palestine - An Enlarged Edition of the Peasantry of Palestine, Life Manners and Customs of the Village.... The People of Palestine - An Enlarged Edition of the Peasantry of Palestine, Life Manners and Customs of the Village. (Paperback)
Elihu Grant
R536 Discovery Miles 5 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

The Political Reconstruction of China ... - By Eu-Yang Kwang, M.a (Paperback): Eu-Yang Kwang The Political Reconstruction of China ... - By Eu-Yang Kwang, M.a (Paperback)
Eu-Yang Kwang
R461 Discovery Miles 4 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Ballads of Burma (Anecdotal and Analytical) (Paperback): "Oolay" Ballads of Burma (Anecdotal and Analytical) (Paperback)
"Oolay"
R418 Discovery Miles 4 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

The Origin of the Chinese People (Paperback): John Ross The Origin of the Chinese People (Paperback)
John Ross
R461 Discovery Miles 4 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Iraqi Media - from Saddam's Propaganda to American State-Building (Paperback): Haider Al Safi Iraqi Media - from Saddam's Propaganda to American State-Building (Paperback)
Haider Al Safi
R1,211 Discovery Miles 12 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Problem of China (Paperback): Bertrand Russell The Problem of China (Paperback)
Bertrand Russell
R466 Discovery Miles 4 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

The Long Road to Baghdad Volume 2 Volume 2 (Paperback): Edmund Candler The Long Road to Baghdad Volume 2 Volume 2 (Paperback)
Edmund Candler
R536 Discovery Miles 5 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

A Continent Erupts - Decolonization, Civil War, and Massacre in Postwar Asia, 1945-1955 (Hardcover): Ronald H. Spector A Continent Erupts - Decolonization, Civil War, and Massacre in Postwar Asia, 1945-1955 (Hardcover)
Ronald H. Spector
R920 Discovery Miles 9 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The end of the Second World War led to the United States' emergence as a global superpower. For war-ravaged Western Europe it marked the beginning of decades of unprecedented cooperation and prosperity that one historian has labeled "the long peace". Yet half a world away, in China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Korea and Malaya-the fighting never really stopped, as these regions sought to completely sever the yoke of imperialism and colonialism with all-too-violent consequences. East and Southeast Asia quickly became the most turbulent regions of the globe. Within weeks of the famous surrender ceremony aboard the USS Missouri, civil war, communal clashes and insurgency engulfed the continent, from Southeast Asia to the Soviet border. By early 1947, full-scale wars were raging in China, Indonesia and Vietnam, with growing guerrilla conflicts in Korea and Malaya. Within a decade after the Japanese surrender, almost all of the countries of South, East and Southeast Asia that had formerly been conquests of the Japanese or colonies of the European powers experienced wars and upheavals that resulted in the deaths of at least 2.5 million combatants and millions of civilians. With A Continent Erupts, acclaimed military historian Ronald H. Spector draws on letters, diaries and international archives to provide, for the first time, a comprehensive military history and analysis of these little-known but decisive events. Far from being simply offshoots of the Cold War, as they have often been portrayed, these shockingly violent conflicts forever changed the shape of Asia, and the world as we know it today.

The Problem of China (Paperback): Bertrand Russell The Problem of China (Paperback)
Bertrand Russell
R499 Discovery Miles 4 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Reinventing the Sheikhdom - Clan, Power and Patronage in Mohammed Bin Zayed's Uae (Hardcover): Matthew Hedges Reinventing the Sheikhdom - Clan, Power and Patronage in Mohammed Bin Zayed's Uae (Hardcover)
Matthew Hedges
R1,022 Discovery Miles 10 220 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Rome and Jerusalem; A Study in Jewish Nationalism (Paperback): Moses Hess Rome and Jerusalem; A Study in Jewish Nationalism (Paperback)
Moses Hess
R499 Discovery Miles 4 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Hamas - From Resistance to Government (Paperback, New): Paola Caridi Hamas - From Resistance to Government (Paperback, New)
Paola Caridi
R475 R439 Discovery Miles 4 390 Save R36 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

When the radical Islamist group Hamas was elected to lead Palestine in 2006, the Western world was shocked. How had the majority of Palestinians come to support an extremist organization and how would the group's new political power affect the larger Israel/Palestine conflict?
Italian journalist and historian Paola Caridi offers a clear-eyed account of how the conditions in this war-torn region led to the rise of Hamas and an unbiased look at the complex feelings that Palestinians have toward getting behind a government that supports violent resistance. By breaking from the sensationalist journalism surrounding the elections, Caridi is able to tell the story of a movement caught between the desire to resist its oppressor and the need to provide support for a refugee people. Caridi, informed by years of on-the-ground research and interviews with residents of Gaza and leaders of Hamas, covers the history of Gaza from its golden age as a port city to the formal birth and slow militarization of Hamas. This English-language translation brings the reader to present-day Palestine by offering a never-before-seen chapter on Operation Cast Lead, the shocking WikiLeaks disclosures, and the Cairo Revolution.
"Hamas" paints a picture, with intelligence, dexterity, and heart, of a people trapped in the most historic of political battles and reveals the strange complexities behind the controversy by explaining one of the key players in the search for peace and justice that runs through the central crisis of the Middle East today.

What It Is Like To Go To War (Paperback, Main): Karl Marlantes What It Is Like To Go To War (Paperback, Main)
Karl Marlantes 1
R331 Discovery Miles 3 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In 1968, at the age of 22, Karl Marlantes abandoned his Oxford University scholarship to sign up for active service with the US Marine Corps in Vietnam. Pitched into a war that had no defined military objective other than kill ratios and body counts, what he experienced over the next thirteen months in the jungles of South East Asia shook him to the core. But what happened when he came home covered with medals was almost worse. It took Karl four decades to come to terms with what had really happened, during the course of which he painstakingly constructed a fictionalized version of his war, MATTERHORN, which has subsequently been hailed as the definitive Vietnam novel.

WHAT IT IS LIKE TO GO TO WAR takes us back to Vietnam, but this time there is no fictional veil. Here are the hard-won truths that underpin MATTERHORN: the author's real-life experiences behind the book's indelible scenes. But it is much more than this. It is part exorcism of Karl's own experiences of combat, part confession, part philosophical primer for the young man about to enter combat. It It is also a devastatingly frank answer to the questions '"What is it like to be a soldier?"' "What is it like to face death?"' and "'What is it like to kill someone?"'

Secular Jinnah & Pakistan - What The Nation Doesn't Know (Paperback): Saleena Karim Secular Jinnah & Pakistan - What The Nation Doesn't Know (Paperback)
Saleena Karim
R621 Discovery Miles 6 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

People interested in the history of India's partition invariably ask the same question: Why did Pakistan happen? Or, what was the Pakistan idea? Focusing on M. A. Jinnah's political career, this book addresses the issue of whether he had a secular or religious vision for Pakistan, or perhaps something in between? Pakistan as a country has yet to find its proper place in the world. Logically, it is assumed that if we can reach a consensus on Jinnah's thought, then we can also resolve the long-standing question of what kind of state Pakistan was meant to be, and thus how it should develop today. Pakistanis are tired of self-serving politicians, landlordism, nepotism, the rise of religious fundamentalism, corruption, economic instability, and the semi-predictable cycle between incompetent bureaucratic and military regimes. Hence for Pakistanis more than anyone else, the debate over Jinnah is a highly emotive subject, and at its heart is a battle of ideas. Pakistanis are really trying to work out something much bigger than Jinnah's place in history. They are trying to find their own historical identity as well. A well researched and thoroughly-indexed book that has earned its place amongst the leading political commentaries on contemporary Pakistan.

Burmese Lives - Ordinary Life Stories Under the Burmese Regime (Hardcover): Eric Tagliacozzo, Wen-Chin Chang Burmese Lives - Ordinary Life Stories Under the Burmese Regime (Hardcover)
Eric Tagliacozzo, Wen-Chin Chang
R3,845 Discovery Miles 38 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume explores the life stories of ordinary Burmese by drawing on the narratives of individual subjects and using an array of interdisciplinary approaches, covering anthropology, history, literature, ethnomusicology, economics and political science. Burma is one of the most diverse societies in Southeast Asia in terms of its ethnic composition. It has a long history of resistance from the public realm against colonial rule and post-independence regimes. However, its isolation for decades before 1988 deprived scholars of a close look into the many faces of this society. Looking into the life stories of members of several major ethnic communities, who hail from different occupations and are of different ages and genders, this book has a particular significance that would help reveal the multiplicities of Burma's modern history. The authors of this volume write about stories of their long-term informants, close friends, family members, or even themselves to bring out a wide range of issues relating to migration, economy, politics, religion and culture. The constituted stories jointly highlight the protagonists' survival strategies in everyday life that demonstrate their constant courage, pain and frustration in dealing with numerous social injustices and adversities. Through these stories, we see movement of lives as well as that of Burmese society.

The Korean War (Paperback, Reprinted edition): Hastings The Korean War (Paperback, Reprinted edition)
Hastings
R515 Discovery Miles 5 150 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

It was the first war we could not win. At no other time since World War II have two superpowers met in battle. Now Max Hastings, preeminent military historian takes us back to the bloody bitter struggle to restore South Korean independence after the Communist invasion of June 1950. Using personal accounts from interviews with more than 200 vets -- including the Chinese -- Hastings follows real officers and soldiers through the battles. He brilliantly captures the Cold War crisis at home -- the strategies and politics of Truman, Acheson, Marshall, MacArthur, Ridgway, and Bradley -- and shows what we should have learned in the war that was the prelude to Vietnam.

Brave New Burma (Hardcover, New): Nic Dunlop Brave New Burma (Hardcover, New)
Nic Dunlop
R861 R796 Discovery Miles 7 960 Save R65 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Nic Dunlop spent 20 years photographing Burma under military rule. His new book, Brave New Burma, is an intimate portrait in words and pictures of a country finally emerging from decades of dictatorship, isolation and fear. From the frontlines of the civil war to deceptively tranquil cities, from the home of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi to the lives of ordinary people struggling to survive, Brave New Burma is both an historic collection of rare images and a powerful expose of Burma's crisis. Change has come to Burma for the first time in decades. But change brings dangers, including the erasing of history and the invention of a new Burma in appearance alone. Brave New Burma is a haunting record of a country now struggling to recreate itself.

Black Wave - Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the... Black Wave - Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East (Paperback)
Kim Ghattas
R456 R427 Discovery Miles 4 270 Save R29 (6%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine - A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance (Paperback, Main): Rashid I.... The Hundred Years' War on Palestine - A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance (Paperback, Main)
Rashid I. Khalidi
R309 Discovery Miles 3 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Shortlisted for the 2020 Cundill History Prize 'Riveting and original ... a work enriched by solid scholarship, vivid personal experience, and acute appreciation of the concerns and aspirations of the contending parties in this deeply unequal conflict ' Noam Chomsky The twentieth century for Palestine and the Palestinians has been a century of denial: denial of statehood, denial of nationhood and denial of history. The Hundred Years War on Palestine is Rashid Khalidi's powerful response. Drawing on his family archives, he reclaims the fundamental right of any people: to narrate their history on their own terms. Beginning in the final days of the Ottoman Empire, Khalidi reveals nascent Palestinian nationalism and the broad recognition by the early Zionists of the colonial nature of their project. These ideas and their echoes defend Nakba - the Palestinian term for the establishment of the state of Israel - the cession of the West Bank and Gaza to Jordan and Egypt, the Six Day War and the occupation. Moving through these critical moments, Khalidi interweaves the voices of journalists, poets and resistance leaders with his own accounts as a child of a UN official and a resident of Beirut during the 1982 seige. The result is a profoundly moving account of a hundred-year-long war of occupation, dispossession and colonialisation.

Mahatma Jotirao Phooley - Father of the Indian Revolution (Paperback): Dhananjay Keer Mahatma Jotirao Phooley - Father of the Indian Revolution (Paperback)
Dhananjay Keer
R690 Discovery Miles 6 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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