The Allure of Empire
ISBN: 9780197631621 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Allure of Empire traces how American ideas about race in the Pacific were made and remade on the imperial stage before World War II. Following the Russo-Japanese War, the United States cultivated an amicable relationship with Japan based on the belief that it was a "progressive" empire akin to its own. Even as the two nations competed for influence in Asia and clashed over immigration issues in the American West, the mutual respect for empire sustained their transpacific cooperation until Pearl Harbor, when both sides disavowed their history of collaboration and cast each other as...
The Allure of Empire traces how American ideas about race in the Pacific were made and remade on the imperial stage before World War II. Following the...
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105,09 zł |
Sex in the Land of Genghis Khan: From the Times of the Great Conqueror to Today
ISBN: 9781666937497 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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400,88 zł |
Beyond Science and Empire: Circulation of Knowledge in an Age of Global Empires, 1750–1945
ISBN: 9780367410728 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through ten case studies by international specialists, this book investigates the circulation and production of scientific knowledge between 1750 and 1945 in the fields of agriculture, astronomy, botany, cartography, medicine, statistics, and zoology.
Through ten case studies by international specialists, this book investigates the circulation and production of scientific knowledge between 1750 and ...
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730,37 zł |
The Dimming of Starlight
ISBN: 9780197689912 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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134,75 zł |
Oil Crises of the 1970s and the Transformation of International Order: Economy, Development, and Aid in Asia and Africa
ISBN: 9781350413801 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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466,78 zł |
Right to Information and the Grievance Redressal System in India
ISBN: 9781666925647 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book rejects the fundamental ideas of hidden administrative practices and helps the policy maker to strengthen the right to information Act in India. Finally this book is an attempt to ensure accountability and how the grievance redressal mechanism related to work culture in India.
This book rejects the fundamental ideas of hidden administrative practices and helps the policy maker to strengthen the right to information Act in In...
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466,78 zł |
Mirabai: The Making of a Saint
ISBN: 9780195153903 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mirabai, an iconic sixteenth-century Indian poet-saint, is renowned for her unwavering love of God, her disregard for social hierarchies and gendered notions of honor and shame, and her challenge to familial, feudal, and religious authorities. Defying attempts to constrain and even kill her, she could not be silenced. Though verifiable facts regarding her life are few, her fame spread across social, linguistic, and religious boundaries, and stories about her multiplied across the subcontinent and the centuries. In Mirabai, Nancy M. Martin traces the story of this immensely popular Indian...
Mirabai, an iconic sixteenth-century Indian poet-saint, is renowned for her unwavering love of God, her disregard for social hierarchies and gendered ...
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119,92 zł |
Charting the Emerging Field of Japanese Diaspora Archaeology
ISBN: 9789819911288 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the Japanese diaspora from the historical archaeology perspective—drawing from archaeological data, archival research, and often oral history—and explores current trends in archaeological scholarship while also looking at new methodological and theoretical directions. The chapters include research on pre-War rural labor camps or villages in the US, as well as research on western Canada (British Columbia), Peru, and the Pacific Islands (Hawai‘i and Tinian), incorporating work on understudied urban and cemetery sites. One of the main themes explored in the book is...
This book examines the Japanese diaspora from the historical archaeology perspective—drawing from archaeological data, archival research, and often ...
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506,99 zł |
Insurgency Warfare: A Global History to the Present
ISBN: 9781538179413 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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192,20 zł |
Vietnam War: From Saigon to Hanoi
ISBN: 9781839382529 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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97,60 zł |
The Impact of Coincidence in Modern American, British, and Asian History: Twenty-One Unusual Historical Events
ISBN: 9781839989605 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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144,94 zł |
From Colonization to Nation-State: The Political Demography of Indonesia
ISBN: 9789811664397 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the history of the political demography of Indonesia. Chronologically, the book begins by introducing the colonization program as a predecessor of transmigration program after independence. The transmigration program, Indonesia’s state policy on migration, is discussed at length in the book but other migration related issues are also presented to show the complex relationship between migration and other social, economic and political issues in Indonesia. In the final chapter, the book discusses the contemporary issues and challenges of disintegration that is facing...
This book examines the history of the political demography of Indonesia. Chronologically, the book begins by introducing the colonization program as a...
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585,00 zł |
A Chronicle of China’s Notary History (1902-1979)
ISBN: 9789819916849 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book seeks to trace the notarial history of China from 1902 to 1979. While working on this trailblazing effort, the author taps into a rich variety of artifacts, especially the notarial documents, archived records, manuals and journals from private collection or originally issued by China’s judicial authorities during different periods. No similar book has been published so far. Many of these items are taken from old publications and notarial documents that the author purchased from grass-root vendors. The book complements the text with illustrations, and the descriptions of the same...
This book seeks to trace the notarial history of China from 1902 to 1979. While working on this trailblazing effort, the author taps into a rich varie...
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1092,02 zł |
Situating Religion and Medicine in Asia: Methodological Insights and Innovations
ISBN: 9781526160010 / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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494,24 zł |
Storm Clouds Over the Pacific: War in the Far East Volume 1
ISBN: 9781636243016 / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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102,99 zł |
A Breve Historia de Pol Pot: A Ascensao e o Reino do Khmer Vermelho, a Revolucao, os Campos de Matanca do Camboja, o Tribunal e o Colapso do Regime Comunista
ISBN: 9789493298965 / Portugalski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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56,74 zł |
The Alevis in Turkey: The Emergence of a Secular Islamic Tradition
ISBN: 9780700716067 / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The example of the Alevis of Turkey is used to contribute to debates over the role of Islam in the modern world. It is argued there is nothing inherently secular-proof within Islam, but belief depends on the wider social and religious context.
The example of the Alevis of Turkey is used to contribute to debates over the role of Islam in the modern world. It is argued there is nothing inheren...
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756,45 zł |
Sustaining China's Economic Growth in the Twenty-first Century
ISBN: 9780415297264 / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Yao and Xiaming present the work of leading economists of China, who put forward new research findings and new thinking on a wide range of issues connected with the problem of sustaining China's economic growth.
Yao and Xiaming present the work of leading economists of China, who put forward new research findings and new thinking on a wide range of issues conn...
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704,29 zł |
Crisis in Sri Lanka and the World: Colonial and Neoliberal Origins: Ecological and Collective Alternatives
ISBN: 9783111203430 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a broad picture of Sri Lanka's on-going political and economic crisis as the culmination of several centuries of colonial and neo-colonial developments. The book presents the Sri Lankan crisis as an exemplification of a broader global existential crisis facing more and more debt trapped countries, especially in the post-colonial Global South. The book's in-depth case study raises important questions pertaining to sovereignty and political and economic democracy in Sri Lanka and the world at large. The book also explores the emergence of the crisis in the context of the...
This book provides a broad picture of Sri Lanka's on-going political and economic crisis as the culmination of several centuries of colonial and neo-c...
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435,69 zł |