Asian history

Rewriting Buddhism is the first intellectual history of premodern Sri Lanka's most culturally productive period.

In the 1960s and 1970s in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), or West Germany, newspaper readers and television viewers were appalled by terrible images of fires burning half a world away.

First we mapped the heavens, then we started mapping the land.

In 'Becoming the Superpowers: John Dewey's Reflections on U.

Almost 10 years ago the mineral-rich country of Mongolia experienced very rapid economic growth, fuelled by China's need for coal and copper.

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'Walden And On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience'' is written by Sir Henry David Thoreau.

In 'Der Aufruhr um den Junker Ernst' von Jakob Wassermann wird die Geschichte eines jungen Junkers erzählt, der in eine politische Intrige verwickelt wird.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;China, Japan and the U.

Dieses eBook: "Francisco Pizarro, der Eroberer von Peru (Romanbiografie)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

Most of the following chapters were written some time since, at the request of the publisher, whose intention it was to present the readers of Irish history with a portable volume, which, while removing the necessity of wading through many tomes, would give an authentic account of the two leading events of a very important period,-the battles of the Boyne and Aughrim.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;Kim (Adventure Classic) - Illustrated Edition"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;Kim (Adventure Classic) - Illustrated"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;At the Black Rocks (Illustrated)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

Se presenta en estas páginas la crónica histórica de las principales batallas que marcaron uno de los momentos más difíciles en la historia del México independiente: la invasión norteamericana.

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This book is a historical study of the events of October 1941 in the Viaz’ma pocket, based on documents found in the Russian Federation’s Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense, the German Bundesarchiv, and the US National Archives.

No detailed description available for "e;Japanese Feminist Debates"e;.

USS Intrepid's Fighting Squadron 18 (VF-18) was one of the U.

The amazing life of one of the Marine Corps' premier combat leaders in World War II and Korea.

Although the battlefields of World War II lay thousands of miles from Mexican shores, the conflict had a significant influence on the country's political development.

On 2 August 1990, Saddam Hussein's armed forces invaded and occupied Kuwait.

Now one of Kirkus Reviews' "e;Best Books of the Year"e; From Paul French, the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Peking-winner of both the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction-comes City of Devils, a rags-to-riches tale of two self-made men set against a backdrop of crime and vice in the sprawling badlands of Shanghai.

No detailed description available for "e;Catholics and Anti-Catholicism in Choson Korea"e;.

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No detailed description available for "e;Back from the Dead"e;.

The Vietnam War was a tragic and dismal failureat least that is what the mainstream media and history books would have you believe.

Born against a background of privation and civil war, divided along lines of caste, class, language and religion, independent India emerged, somehow, as a united and democratic country.

Adventures and contemplations throughout the world by a master storyteller, critic, and expatriate writer.

"e;Naval history enthusiasts and military historians who enjoy taking deeper dives into the backgrounds of well-known battles, particularly concerning tactics and leadership, will appreciate this read.

An illustrated history of the American tanks deployed to the Pacific theater during World War II and the conflicts they faced there.

No detailed description available for "e;Homing"e;.

No detailed description available for "e;Writing Pregnancy in Low-Fertility Japan"e;.

Approaching the end of his five year stint as a BBC journalist in Beijing, Michael Bristow decided he wanted to write about the country's modern history.