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  • Tolerance and Coercion in Islamby Yohanan Friedmann; David Morgan

    Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 40.00

    Yohanan Friedmann uses the Quranic and classical sources to explain Islamic attittudes to interfaith relations. While they were usually tolerant, coercion was employed occasionally against marginal elements. Friedmann's erudite study sheds light not only on medieval attitudes, but also on the approach of some radical Islamic movements today. more...

  • Conflict and Confrontation in South East Asia, 1961-1965by Matthew Jones

    Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 28.00

    Matthew Jones provides a detailed insight into the origins, outbreak and development of the Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation within the context of Britain and American diplomacy. Using new archival sources, he illuminates the creation of Malaysia, Indonesia's opposition to the new state and the Western Powers' reactions to the resulting conflict. more...

  • Africa since 1800by Roland Oliver; Anthony Atmore

    Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 26.00

    This book looks at the peoples of Africa at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, partition and colonisation, and the colonial rule up to 1960. The last third of the book is concerned with the history of independent Africa during the last years of the twentieth century. more...

  • Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japanby Dorothy Ko; JaHyun Kim Haboush; Joan R. Piggott

    University of California Press 2003; US$ 15.95

    Representing an unprecedented collaboration among international scholars from Asia, Europe, and the United States, this volume rewrites the history of East Asia by rethinking the contentious relationship between Confucianism and women. The authors discuss the absence of women in the Confucian canonical tradition and examine the presence of women in politics, family, education, and art in premodern China, Korea, and Japan. more...

  • Making English Moralsby M. J. D. Roberts; Margot Finn; Keith Wrightson; Colin Jones

    Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 37.00

    Campaigns for moral reform were a recurrent and distinctive feature of public life in later Georgian and Victorian England. This book sets out to explore the world of these volunteer networks, their foci of concern, their patterns of recruitment, their methods of operation, and the responses they aroused. more...

  • Short History of Cambodiaby John Tully

    Allen & Unwin 2006; US$ 21.78

    A concise and readable history of Cambodia, from its rich and powerful past, through the era of French protection, the Vietnamese conflict, the Pol Pot regime and to its present day incarnation as a constitutional monarchy and popular tourist destination. more...

  • The Political Thought of Sun Yat-Senby A. Wells

    Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2001; US$ 132.00

    The significance of Sun Yat-sen's political thought has rarely been appreciated though he is hailed as the Father of Modern China. This is the first extended treatment of the subject, which will be invaluable to sinologists and historians of political thought. Dr Wells first traces the development of Sun's revolutionary ideas from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. She then considers the impact of Sun's political thought on Chinese revolutionary leaders and on Third World countries, arguing that it has been considerable. This subject has never before been so widely explored. more...

  • Nothing to Envyby Barbara Demick

    Spiegel & Grau 2009; US$ 9.99

    A National Book Award finalist and National Book Critics Circle finalist, Barbara Demick’s Nothing to Envy is a remarkable view into North Korea, as seen through the lives of six ordinary citizens   Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung, the unchallenged rise to power of his son Kim Jong-il, and the devastation of a far-ranging famine that killed one-fifth of the population. Taking us into a landscape most of us have never before seen, award-winning journalist Barbara Demick brings to life what it means to be living under the most repressive totalitarian regime today—an Orwellian world that is by choice not connected to the... more...

  • The Asian Military Revolutionby Peter A. Lorge

    Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 22.00

    Explores the impact of the Chinese invention of gunpowder on the surrounding Asian region. more...

  • The Invisible Hookby Peter T. Leeson

    Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 16.95

    Pack your cutlass and blunderbuss--it's time to go a-pirating! The Invisible Hook takes readers inside the wily world of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century pirates. With swashbuckling irreverence and devilish wit, Peter Leeson uncovers the hidden economics behind pirates' notorious, entertaining, and sometimes downright shocking behavior. Why did pirates fly flags of Skull & Bones? Why did they create a "pirate code"? Were pirates really ferocious madmen? And what made them so successful? The Invisible Hook uses economics to examine these and other infamous aspects of piracy. Leeson argues that the pirate customs we know and love resulted from pirates responding rationally to prevailing economic conditions in the pursuit... more...