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The River of Lost Footsteps
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2007; US$ 15.99For 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...
Triumph at Kapyong
Dundurn 2011; US$ 11.99This 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 Gandhi
SAGE India 2010; US$ 25.95Understanding Gandhi is a collection of interviews of six of Mahatma Gandhis closest associatesJ.B. Kriplani, Raihana Tyabji, Dada Dharmadhikari, Sushila Nayar, Jhaver Patel and Sucheta Kripalani. The interviewees reflect on Gandhis ideas in the light of changes that took place in India after Independence. These interviews have been... more...
Pan-Asianism
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2011; US$ 74.99Pan-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-Asianism
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2011; US$ 74.99Pan-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...
Sunset of the Empire in Malaya
I.B.Tauris 2006; US$ 56.00In this rich and rewarding memoir, T.K. Taylor describes his experiences in schools from Kuala Lumpur to Johore Bahru. Full of vivid anecdote and sharply observed historical detail, his writing takes us from his first days spent adapting the Western curriculum to local schools' needs to his time as Chief Education Officer for Selangor state, showing... more...
Frontiers of Ottoman Studies, 2
I.B.Tauris 2004; US$ 105.00Frontiers of Ottoman Studies provides a comprehensive overview of the surge in research into Ottoman history and culture of the past two decades. The second volume covers Ottoman-European International Relations; Ottoman manuscripts in Europe; Ottoman-European cultural exchange and Christian influence and the advent of the Europeans. The work makes... more...
Frontiers of Ottoman Studies, 1
I.B.Tauris 2004; US$ 105.00Frontiers of Ottoman Studies provides a comprehensive overview of the surge in research into Ottoman history and culture over the past two decades. The first volume reflects the growing interest in the provinces, communities and cultures outside the imperial capital of Istanbul and covers four major areas: politics and Islam; economy and taxation;... more...
Knowledge and Text Production in an Age of Print: China, 900-1400
BRILL 2011; US$ 185.00The essays in this volume seek to flesh out the diversity of Chinese textual production during the period spanning the tenth and fourteenth centuries when printing became a widely used technology. more...
Chinese Indonesians and Regime Change
BRILL 2010; US$ 137.00The existing literature on Chinese Indonesians has so far tended to take an approach of either victimization and marginalization or a focus on elite businessmen and their economic influence. This volume takes a different perspective. The Chinese in Indonesia were not only innocent victims of history, but were simultaneously active agents of change.... more...









