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  • John Skylitzes; A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811–1057by John Skylitzes; John Wortley

    Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 32.00

    First complete English translation of John Skylitzes' Middle Byzantine chronicle, with introductions and notes. more...

  • Ashby Holly Thompson

    Stone Bridge Press 2009; US$ 16.95

    A moving literary debut . . . A young American woman in Japan finds healing and forgiveness. more...

  • The River of Lost Footstepsby Thant Myint-U

    Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2007; US$ 15.99

    For nearly two decades Western governments and a growing activist community have been frustrated in their attempts to bring about a freer and more democratic Burma--through sanctions and tourist boycotts--only to see an apparent slide toward even harsher dictatorship. But what do we really know about Burma and its history? And what can Burma's past... more...

  • Chinese Lessonsby John Pomfret

    Henry Holt and Co. 2006; US$ 16.99

    "A highly personal, honest, funny and well-informed account of China's hyperactive effort to forget its past and reinvent its future."-- The New York Times Book Review   As one the first American students admitted to China after the communist revolution, John Pomfret was exposed to a country still emerging from the twin tragedies of the... more...

  • Triumph at Kapyongby Dan Bjarnason

    Dundurn 2011; US$ 11.99

    This is the story of the first battle by Canadas soldiers in the Korean War. These volunteers truck drivers, construction workers, kids just out of high school outnumbered, they beat off some of the toughest troops on earth. more...

  • Understanding Gandhiby Usha Thakkar; Jayshree Mehta

    SAGE India 2010; US$ 25.95

    Understanding Gandhi is a collection of interviews of six of Mahatma Gandhi’s closest associates—J.B. Kriplani, Raihana Tyabji, Dada Dharmadhikari, Sushila Nayar, Jhaver Patel and Sucheta Kripalani. The interviewees reflect on Gandhi’s ideas in the light of changes that took place in India after Independence. These interviews have been... more...

  • Pan-Asianismby Sven Saaler; Christopher W. A. Szpilman

    Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2011; US$ 74.99

    Pan-Asianism has been an ideal of Asian solidarity, regional cooperation, and regional integration but also served to justify expansionism and aggression. As such, it has been a decisive factor in the history of Asia and the Pacific region. This groundbreaking collection brings seminal documents on Pan-Asianism to the Western reader for the first time.... more...

  • Pan-Asianismby Sven Saaler; Christopher W. A. Szpilman

    Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2011; US$ 74.99

    Pan-Asianism has been an ideal of Asian solidarity, regional cooperation, and regional integration but also served to justify expansionism and aggression. As such, it has been a decisive factor in the history of Asia and the Pacific region. This groundbreaking collection brings seminal documents on Pan-Asianism to the Western reader for the first time.... more...

  • Confronting an Empire, Constructing a Nationby Weldon C Matthews

    I.B.Tauris 2006; US$ 100.00

    Palestinian Arab nationalism is often portrayed as an elite ideology that did not gain popular appeal until after 1948. In this groundbreaking book, Weldon C. Matthews reexamines the rise of nationalism in Palestinian politics, using a wide range of sources. He finds that the new generation of Arab nationalists which emerged in the 1920s sought to... more...

  • The Practice of Politics in Safavid Iranby Colin P. Mitchell

    I.B.Tauris 2009; US$ 92.50

    The Safavid dynasty originated as a fledgling apocalyptic mystical movement based in Iranian Azarbaijan, and grew into a large, cosmopolitan Irano-Islamic empire stretching from Baghdad to Herat. Here Colin Mitchell examines how the Safavid state introduced and moulded a unique and vibrant political discourse which reflected the social and religious... more...