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The Taipans: Hong Kong’s Merchant Princes (Oxford Paperbacks)

March 22, 2015

The Taipans is a popular account of Hong Kong’s merchant princes from the origins of the first trading houses in eighteenth-century Canton and Macau to the beginning of the First World War. The early taipans, hard-headed business men from Britain, the USA, and India, built up immense fortunes from the opium trade. In the 1830s […]
Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East

March 22, 2015

Acclaimed historian and political commentator Rashid Khalidi presents the compelling case that U.S. and Soviet intervention in the Middle East not only exacerbated civil wars and provoked the breakdown of fragile democracies, but continues to this day to shape global conflict in the region. Examining the strategic interplay of cold war superpowers, Khalidi explains how […]
Settling the Frontier: Land, Law and Society in the Peshawar Valley, 1500-1900

March 22, 2015

This political and social history explores four centuries in the history of the Peshawar region, from 1500 to 1900. It examines how different residents experienced imperial expansion (from the Mughals to the British), technological innovation, and the growth of state institutions, while they simultaneously nurtured and transformed indigenous power relations, socio-cultural practices, and a political […]
The Philippines: A Past Revisited, Vol. 1

March 22, 2015

In this book the traditional elements of historical writing are included but are critically examined against the background of changes in production relations and class structure and in the role of the Filipino people in the making of their own history. Sale Price:$80.62 9718958002
Beyond the March of Death: Memoir of a Soldier’s Journey from Bataan to Nagasaki

March 22, 2015

The first to admit that he did not volunteer for military service, Myrrl W. McBride, Sr., was just a young man trying to work and return to college when he was drafted from Grants, New Mexico, into a world completely foreign to him and a war he never envisioned. Soon he would bear witness to […]
The People of Turkey: Twenty years’ residence among Bulgarians, Greeks, Albanians, Turks, and Armenians. Volume 1

March 22, 2015

Edited by Stanley Lane Poole. This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1878 edition by John Murray, London. Sale Price:$15.53 140215108X
The Formative Years Of Malaysian Politics

March 22, 2015

Dr. Charles Shumaker was employed by the Methodist Board of Mission in 1948 and was considered the master school builder in Southeast Asia until 1959. His service in the U.S. Navy in World War II had taken him to the U.S. Naval Language School, where he became a Chinese Interpreter during the war years and […]
Southeast Asia in the New International Era

March 22, 2015

Southeast Asia in the New International Era highlights the dramatic political events sweeping a dynamic region populated by more than 500 million people. Where economic boom and crisis dominated events in the late twentieth century, economic recovery and policy dilemmas define much of the region today. Political cleavage continues to bedevil Thailand’s intermittent democratization. Vietnam’s […]
Sinister Twilight: The Fall of Singapore

March 22, 2015

World War II seige of Sngapore by the japanese Sale Price:$0.01 0099559609
Proverbs For Kids With Pictures of Hong Kong by Sheldon Patnett

March 22, 2015

Chinese Quotes And Proverbs For Kids features 12 beautiful scenic and close-up pictures of Hong Kong photographed by Sheldon Patnett. This compilation of proverbs and quotes is carefully selected to be easily discussed in classrooms or explained by parents to children between the ages of 6 and 14. The book is ideal for introducing children […]

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