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The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia: Visions of World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought (Columbia Studies in International and Global History) by Cemil Aydin Publisher Comments In this rich intellectual history, Cemil Aydin challenges the notion that anti-Westernism in the Muslim world is a political and religious reaction to the liberal and democratic values of the West. Nor is anti-Westernism a natural response to Western... (read more) Your price: $50.25 New - Hardcover 
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Tournament of Shadows : Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia (99 Edition) by Karl Ernest Meyer Publisher Comments From the romantic conflicts of the Victorian Great Game to the war-torn history of the region in recent decades, Tournament of Shadows traces the struggle for control of Central Asia and Tibet from the 1830s to the present. The original Great Game, the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $19.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Devil and the Disappearing Sea: Or, How I Tried to Stop the World's Worst Ecological Catastrophe by Rob Ferguson Publisher Comments Environmental crisis, post-Soviet dysfunction, international intrigue, Silk Road history and an unsolved murder - this darkly comic true-crime memoir reads like a novel and is packed with pleasing details for the non-fiction reader.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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An Account of the Kingdom of Nepal, and of the Territory Annexed to This Dominion by the House of Gorkha ... by Francis Hamilton Publisher Comments Title: An account of the kingdom of Nepal, and of the territory annexed to this dominion by the House of Gorkha ... /Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the... (read more) Your price: $34.75 New - Trade Paper
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The New Asian City: Three-Dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form by Jini Kim Watson Publisher Comments Under Jini Kim Watson’s scrutiny, the Asian Tiger metropolises of Seoul, Taipei, and Singapore reveal a surprising residue of the colonial environment. Drawing on a wide array of literary, filmic, and political works, and juxtaposing close... (read more) Your price: $30.75 New - Trade Paper
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The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban by Sarah Chayes Publisher Comments From a beloved former NPR reporter comes a news-breaking eyewitness account of how the U.S. government and armed forces allowed, and even abetted, the tragic return to violent warlordism in Afghanistan following the defeat of the Taliban.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Confucius Lives Next Door: What Living in the East Teaches Us about Living in the West by T R Reid Publisher Comments "Fascinating...clearly stated, interesting and provoking.... A plainspoken account of living in Asia." --San Francisco Chronicle Anyone who has heard his weekly commentary on NPR knows that T. R. Reid is trenchant, funny, and deeply... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Wars of Afghanistan: Messianic Terrorism, Tribal Conflicts, and the Failures of Great Powers by Peter Tomsen Publisher Comments As Ambassador and Special Envoy on Afghanistan from 1989 to 1992, Peter Tomsen has had close relationships with Afghan leaders and has dealt with senior Taliban, warlords, and religious leaders involved in the regions conflicts over the last two decades.... (read more) List Price $39.99 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Shadow War: The Untold Story of Jihad in Kashmir by Arif Jamal Publisher Comments A definitive history of the Kashmiri conflict by one of Pakistan's leading reporters For nearly sixty years, India and Pakistan have battled over the territory of Kashmir. The two nuclear-armed states have fought three bloody wars in the region, but the... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Harvard East Asian Monographs #340: Toward a History Beyond Borders: Contentious Issues in Sino-Japanese Relations by Daqing (edt) Yang Publisher Comments This volume brings to English-language readers the results of an important long-term project of historians from China and Japan addressing contentious issues in their shared modern histories. Originally published simultaneously in Chinese and Japanese in... (read more) Your price: $58.95 New - Hardcover
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The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire by Jack Weatherford Publisher Comments The Mongol queens of the thirteenth century ruled the largest empire the world has ever known. Yet sometime near the end of the century, censors cut a section from The Secret History of the Mongols, leaving a single tantalizing quote from Genghis Khan... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolent Power in Action by Dennis Dalton Publisher Comments Dennis Dalton's classic account of Gandhi's political and intellectual development focuses on the leader's two signal triumphs: the civil disobedience movement (or salt satyagraha) of 1930 and the Calcutta fast of 1947. Dalton clearly demonstrates how... (read more) Your price: $27.50 New - Trade Paper
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The great hill stations of Asia by Barbara Crossette Publisher Comments For the European and later the American colonial soldier, the civil administrator and his clerk, the merchant, the missionary, and the families who followed them east of Suez, daily life was less a matter of advancing the glory of God or empire than a... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Birth of Vietnamese Political Journalism: Saigon, 1916-1930 by Philippe M. F. Peycam Publisher Comments Philippe M. F. Peycam completes the first ever English-language study of Vietnam's emerging political press and its resistance to colonialism. Published in the decade that preceded the Communist Party's founding, this journalistic phenomenon established... (read more) Your price: $58.95 New - Hardcover
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Pakistan: Deep Inside the World's Most Frightening State by Mary Anne Weaver Publisher Comments No nation is more critical to U.S. foreign policy than nuclear-armed Pakistan. Wedged between India and Afghanistan, it is the second largest country in the Islamic world. But with militant Islamists now expanding their control over some of the country's... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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When Asia Was the World by Stewart Gordon Publisher Comments While European civilization stagnated in the “Dark Ages,” Asia flourished as the wellspring of science, philosophy, and religion. Linked together by a web of spiritual, commercial, and intellectual connections, the distant regions of Asia’s vast... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $15.09 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Pakistan: A Hard Country by Anatol Lieven Publisher Comments In the past decade Pakistan has become a country of immense importance to its region, the United States, and the world. With almost 200 million people, a 500,000-man army, nuclear weapons, and a large diaspora in Britain and North America, Pakistan is... (read more) Your price: $21.99 New - Trade Paper
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Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty by Bradley K. Martin Publisher Comments Subsisting on a diet short on food grains and long on lies, North Koreans have been indoctrinated from infancy to follow fanatically the despots Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il. Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader lifts North Korea's curtain of... (read more) Your price: $22.99 New - Trade Paper
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Premodern Japan: A Historical Survey by Mikiso Hane Publisher Comments This newly revised volume drawn from Professor Hane’s classic text, Japan: A Historical Survey, presents a rich account of early Japanese history for students. Important elements of early Japanese history persist in present-day Japan more... (read more) Your price: $55.75 New - Trade Paper
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Empire of the Steppes by Rene Grousset Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 543-632) and index.... (read more) Your price: $37.75 New - Trade Paper
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