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China War, 1860 - Letters and Journal (Hardcover): George Allgood China War, 1860 - Letters and Journal (Hardcover)
George Allgood
R865 Discovery Miles 8 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Yemen and the Search for Stability - Power, Politics and Society After the Arab Spring (Hardcover): Marie-Christine Heinze Yemen and the Search for Stability - Power, Politics and Society After the Arab Spring (Hardcover)
Marie-Christine Heinze
R3,556 Discovery Miles 35 560 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The attacks and blockade on Yemen by the Saudi-led multinational coalition have killed thousands and triggered humanitarian disaster. The longstanding conflict in the country between the Huthi rebels and (until December 2017) Salih militias on the one side and those loyal to the internationally recognized government and many other groups fighting for their interests on the other are said to have evolved into a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran. In 2011, however, thousands of Yemenis had taken to the streets to protest for a better future for their country. When President Ali Abdullah Salih signed over power in the aftermath of these protests, there were hopes that this would signal the beginning of a new period of transition. Yemen and the Search for Stability focuses on the aspirations that inspired revolutionary action, and analyzes what went wrong in the years that followed. It examines the different groups involved in the protests - Salih supporters, Muslim Brothers, Salafis, Huthis, secessionists, women, youth, artists and intellectuals- in terms of their competing visions for the country's future as well as their internal struggles. This book traces the impact of the 2011 upheavals on these groups' ideas for a `new Yemen' and on their strategies for self-empowerment. In so doing, Yemen and the Search for Stability examines the mistakes committed in the country's post-2011 transition process but also points towards prospects for stability and positive change.

Ghosts of Gold Mountain - The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad (Paperback): Gordon H. Chang Ghosts of Gold Mountain - The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad (Paperback)
Gordon H. Chang
R486 R452 Discovery Miles 4 520 Save R34 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Migration from Turkey to Sweden - Integration, Belonging and Transnational Community (Hardcover): Bahar Baser, Paul T. Levin Migration from Turkey to Sweden - Integration, Belonging and Transnational Community (Hardcover)
Bahar Baser, Paul T. Levin
R4,238 Discovery Miles 42 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The `refugee crisis' and the recent rise of anti-immigration parties across Europe has prompted widespread debates about migration, integration and security on the continent. But the perspectives and experiences of immigrants in northern and western Europe have equal political significance for contemporary European societies. While Turkish migration to Europe has been a vital area of research, little scholarly attention has been paid to Turkish migration to specifically Sweden, which has a mix of religious and ethnic groups from Turkey and where now well over 100,000 Swedes have Turkish origins. This book examines immigration from Turkey to Sweden from its beginnings in the mid-1960s, when the recruitment of workers was needed to satisfy the expanding industrial economy. It traces the impact of Sweden's economic downturn, and the effects of the 1971 Turkish military intervention and the 1980 military coup, after which asylum seekers - mostly Assyrian Christians and Kurds - sought refuge in Sweden. Contributors explore how the patterns of labour migration and interactions with Swedish society impacted the social and political attitudes of these different communities, their sense of belonging, and diasporic activism. The book also investigates issues of integration, return migration, transnational ties, external voting and citizenship rights. Through the detailed analysis of migration to Sweden and emigration from Turkey, this book sheds new light on the situation of migrants in Europe.

Ancient India - A Captivating Guide to Ancient Indian History, Starting from the Beginning of the Indus Valley Civilization... Ancient India - A Captivating Guide to Ancient Indian History, Starting from the Beginning of the Indus Valley Civilization Through the Invasion of Alexander the Great to the Mauryan Empire (Hardcover)
Captivating History
R681 R608 Discovery Miles 6 080 Save R73 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Reflections of a Scared Soldier Boy in Vietnam - God, Redlegs, and Blueboys (Hardcover): Robert Adams Reflections of a Scared Soldier Boy in Vietnam - God, Redlegs, and Blueboys (Hardcover)
Robert Adams
R1,648 Discovery Miles 16 480 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Poet Under A Soldier's Hat (Hardcover): E. P. Rose Poet Under A Soldier's Hat (Hardcover)
E. P. Rose
R804 Discovery Miles 8 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Sino-German Encounters and Entanglements - Transnational Politics and Culture, 1890-1950 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Joanne... Sino-German Encounters and Entanglements - Transnational Politics and Culture, 1890-1950 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Joanne Miyang Cho
R4,587 Discovery Miles 45 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Adopting a transnational approach, this edited volume reveals that Germany and China have had many intense and varied encounters between 1890 and 1950. It focuses on their cross-cultural encounters, entanglements, and bi-directional cultural flows. Although their initial relationship was marked by the logic of colonialism, interwar Sino-German relations established a cooperative relationship untainted by imperialist politics several decades before the era of decolonization. A range of topics are addressed, including pacifists in Germany on the Boxer Rebellion, German investment in Qingdao, teachers at German-Chinese schools, social and pedagogical theories and practice, female literary and missionary connections, Sino-German musical entanglements, humanitarian connections during the Nanjing Massacre, Manchukuo-German diplomacy, and psychoanalysis during the Shanghai exile.

Fromfar Formosa - The Island, Its People and Missions (Hardcover): George Leslie Mackay Fromfar Formosa - The Island, Its People and Missions (Hardcover)
George Leslie Mackay
R975 Discovery Miles 9 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Traumatic Pasts in Asia - History, Psychiatry, and Trauma from the 1930s to the Present (Hardcover): Mark S. Micale, Hans Pols Traumatic Pasts in Asia - History, Psychiatry, and Trauma from the 1930s to the Present (Hardcover)
Mark S. Micale, Hans Pols
R3,338 Discovery Miles 33 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In the early twenty-first century, trauma is seemingly everywhere, whether as experience, diagnosis, concept, or buzzword. Yet even as many scholars consider trauma to be constitutive of psychological modernity or the post-Enlightenment human condition, historical research on the topic has overwhelmingly focused on cases, such as World War I or the Holocaust, in which Western experiences and actors are foregrounded. There remains an urgent need to incorporate the methods and insights of recent historical trauma research into a truly global perspective. The chapters in Traumatic Pasts in Asia make just such an intervention, extending Euro-American paradigms of traumatic experience to new sites of world-historical suffering and, in the process, exploring how these new domains of research inform and enrich earlier scholarship.

Narrated Empires - Perceptions of Late Habsburg and Ottoman Multinationalism (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Johanna Chovanec, Olof... Narrated Empires - Perceptions of Late Habsburg and Ottoman Multinationalism (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Johanna Chovanec, Olof Heilo
R3,658 Discovery Miles 36 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines the role of imperial narratives of multinationalism as alternative ideologies to nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the Middle East from the revolutions of 1848 up to the defeat and subsequent downfall of the Habsburg and Ottoman empires in 1918. During this period, both empires struggled against a rising tide of nationalism to legitimise their own diversity of ethnicities, languages and religions. Contributors scrutinise the various narratives of identity that they developed, supported, encouraged or unwittingly created and left behind for posterity as they tried to keep up with the changing political realities of modernity. Beyond simplified notions of enforced harmony or dynamic dissonance, this book aims at a more polyphonic analysis of the various voices of Habsburg and Ottoman multinationalism: from the imperial centres and in the closest proximity to sovereigns, to provinces and minorities, among intellectuals and state servants, through novels and newspapers. Combining insights from history, literary studies and political sciences, it further explores the lasting legacy of the empires in post-imperial narratives of loss, nostalgia, hope and redemption. It shows why the two dynasties keep haunting the twenty-first century with fears and promises of conflict, coexistence, and reborn greatness.

Lares and Penates, or, Cilicia and Its Governors - Being a Short Historical Account of That Province From the Earliest Times to... Lares and Penates, or, Cilicia and Its Governors - Being a Short Historical Account of That Province From the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Together With a Description of Some Household Gods of the Ancient Cilicians, Broken up by Them on Their... (Hardcover)
William Burckhardt 1810?-1856 Barker; William 1807-1896 Ainsworth
R974 Discovery Miles 9 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Political Ecology of Pakistan (Hardcover): Gholam Mujtaba The Political Ecology of Pakistan (Hardcover)
Gholam Mujtaba
R853 Discovery Miles 8 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Book Collectors - A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War (Paperback): Delphine Minoui The Book Collectors - A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War (Paperback)
Delphine Minoui; Translated by Lara Vergnaud
R394 R361 Discovery Miles 3 610 Save R33 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Warren Hastings, an Essay [microform] (Hardcover): Thomas Babington MacAulay MacAulay, G Mercer (Graeme Mercer) 1839 Adam,... Warren Hastings, an Essay [microform] (Hardcover)
Thomas Babington MacAulay MacAulay, G Mercer (Graeme Mercer) 1839 Adam, George B 1846 Dickson
R862 Discovery Miles 8 620 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Korean War - A Captivating Guide to Korean War History (Hardcover): Captivating History Korean War - A Captivating Guide to Korean War History (Hardcover)
Captivating History
R706 R622 Discovery Miles 6 220 Save R84 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Cultural Revolution Manuscripts - Unofficial Entertainment Fiction from 1970s China (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Lena Henningsen Cultural Revolution Manuscripts - Unofficial Entertainment Fiction from 1970s China (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Lena Henningsen
R2,641 Discovery Miles 26 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book investigates handwritten entertainment fiction (shouchaoben wenxue) which circulated clandestinely during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Lena Henningsen's analyses of exemplary stories and their variation across different manuscript copies brings to light the creativity of these readers-turned-copyists. Through copying, readers modified the stories and became secondary authors who reflected on the realities of the Cultural Revolution. Through an enquiry into actual reading practices as mapped in autobiographical accounts and into intertextual references within the stories, the book also positions manuscript fiction within the larger reading cosmos of the long 1970s. Henningsen analyzes the production, circulation and consumption of these texts, considering continuities across the alleged divide of the end of the Mao-era and the beginning of the reform period. The book further reveals how these texts achieved fruitful afterlives as re-published bestsellers or as adaptations into comic books or movies, continuing to shape the minds of their audience and the imaginations of the past. Chapter 5 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

From Culturalist Nationalism to Conservatism - Origins and Diversification of Conservative Ideas in Republican China... From Culturalist Nationalism to Conservatism - Origins and Diversification of Conservative Ideas in Republican China (Hardcover)
Aymeric Xu
R3,672 Discovery Miles 36 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What does it mean to be a conservative in Republican China? Challenging the widely held view that Chinese conservatism set out to preserve traditional culture and was mainly a cultural movement, this book proposes a new framework with which to analyze modern Chinese conservatism. It identifies late Qing culturalist nationalism, which incorporates traditional culture into concrete political reforms inspired by modern Western politics, as the origin of conservatism in the Republican era. During the May Fourth period, New Culture activists belittled any attempts to reintegrate traditional culture with modern politics as conservative. What conservatives in Republican China stood for was essentially this late Qing culturalist nationalism that rejected squarely the museumification of traditional culture. Adopting a typological approach in order to distinguish different types of conservatism by differentiating various political implications of traditional culture, this book divides the Chinese conservatism of the Republican era into four typologies: liberal conservatism, antimodern conservatism, philosophical conservatism, and authoritarian conservatism. As such, this book captures - for the first time - how Chinese conservatism was in constant evolution, while also showing how its emblematic figures reacted differently to historical circumstances.

The History of Genghizcan the Great, First Emperor of the Antient Moguls and Tartars, in Four Books - Containing His Life,... The History of Genghizcan the Great, First Emperor of the Antient Moguls and Tartars, in Four Books - Containing His Life, Advancement and Conquests, With a Short History of His Successors to the Present Time, the Manners, Customs and Laws of The... (Hardcover)
Francois 1622-1695 Petis; Created by Francois 1653-1713 Petis de la Croix; Penelope 1679-1731 Aubin
R1,076 Discovery Miles 10 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Flowery Kingdom and the Land of the Mikado, or, China, Japan and Corea [microform] - Containing Their Complete History Down... The Flowery Kingdom and the Land of the Mikado, or, China, Japan and Corea [microform] - Containing Their Complete History Down to the Present Time: Manners, Customs and Peculiarities of the People, Superstitions, Idol Worship, Idustries, Natural... (Hardcover)
Henry Davenport 1836-1909 Northrop
R1,216 Discovery Miles 12 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Battle of Turkey Thicket - The Journeys of an Orphan, Altar Boy, Runaway, and Teenaged Soldier from Washington, D.C.... The Battle of Turkey Thicket - The Journeys of an Orphan, Altar Boy, Runaway, and Teenaged Soldier from Washington, D.C. (Paperback)
Christopher Russell
R458 Discovery Miles 4 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Malaysia in the World Economy (1824-2011) - Capitalism, Ethnic Divisions, and "Managed" Democracy (Hardcover, New): Azlan... Malaysia in the World Economy (1824-2011) - Capitalism, Ethnic Divisions, and "Managed" Democracy (Hardcover, New)
Azlan Tajuddin
R4,334 R3,048 Discovery Miles 30 480 Save R1,286 (30%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Does the industrial development of a country entail the democratization of its political system? Malaysia in the World Economy examines this theme with regards to Malaysia in the period between 1824 and 2011. Capitalism was first introduced into Malaysia through colonialism specifically to supply Britain with much-needed raw materials for its industrial development. Aside from economic exploitation, colonial rule had also produced a highly unequal and socially distant multicultural society, whose multifaceted divisions kept the colonial rulers in supreme authority. After independence, Britain ensured that Malaysia became a staunch western ally by structuring in a capitalist system specifically helmed by western-educated elites through what appeared to be "formal" democratic institutions. In such a system, the Malaysian ruling elites have been able to "manage" the country's democratic processes to its advantage as well as preempt or suppress serious internal challenges to its power, often in the name of national stability. As a result, an increasingly unpopular National Front political coalition has remained in power in the country since 1957. Meanwhile, Malaysia's marginal position in the world economy, which has maintained its economic subordination to the developed countries of the west and Japan, has reproduced the internal social inequities inherited from colonial rule and channeled the largest returns of economic growths into the hands of the country's foreign investors as well as local elites associated with the ruling machinery. Over the years however, the state has lost some of its political legitimacy in the face of widening social disparities, increased ethnic polarization, and prevalent corruption. This has been made possible by extensive exposures of these issues via new social media and communications technology. Hence, informational globalization may have begun to empower Malaysians in a new struggle for political reform, thereby reconfiguring the balance of power between the state and civil society. Unlike other past research, Malaysia in the World Economy combines both macro- and micro-theoretical approaches in critically analyzing the relationship between capitalist development and democratization in Malaysia within a comparative-historical and world-systemic context.

On the Incarnation (Deluxe Library Edition) (Hardcover): Saint Athanasius On the Incarnation (Deluxe Library Edition) (Hardcover)
Saint Athanasius
R791 Discovery Miles 7 910 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Devotions for Boots on the Ground - "Are You There, God?" (Hardcover): James W. Visel Devotions for Boots on the Ground - "Are You There, God?" (Hardcover)
James W. Visel
R759 Discovery Miles 7 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Possibly there is nothing more conducive to thoughts of the Eternal, than having one's face slammed into red, wet muck, with explosions so close your body arcs and bounces off the ground, hot shards burn in your flesh, and concussions are bright flashes of dirty fire beating a tattoo on the light receptors in the backs of your eyes. Your head aches; throbbing from visual shock waves.

Time has come to an end; there is no right, no wrong, only whatever follows a life that is now over. The dark reaper is here. What's it going to be like on the other side? Is there an "other side"?

The old timers use the maxim, "There are no atheists in a fox-hole." Possibly so; I can only give my own experience, and I never had the opportunity to be in one. Combat aviators crash and sometimes burn instead. But close calls almost always give rise to interminable questions; especially when the survived experience is seared into the human psyche.

For some, satisfactory answers never seem to come. For myself, may I pro-offer both scorching experience, and incredible life-lessons learned? Then, should you ever fall into similar adventure; you man go into it better prepared than I was.
JWV

Atal Bihari Vajpayee - A Man for All Seasons (Paperback, Unabridged edition): Atal Bihari Vajpayee - A Man for All Seasons (Paperback, Unabridged edition)
R832 Discovery Miles 8 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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