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ISBN: 9780091941536 - We Remember the Home Guard We Remember the Home Guard
Frank Shaw, Joan Shaw

ISBN10: 0091941539  ISBN13: 9780091941536
Publisher: Ebury Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 10 May 2012
On 22 June 1940 France surrendered to Germany and the invasion of Britain seemed a very real possibility. Members came from reserved occupations, the elderly and the young, with miners and farmers training alongside former majors. This title also... More

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ISBN: 9781108046411 - A Journey to the Tea Countries of China A Journey to the Tea Countries of China
Robert Fortune

ISBN10: 110804641X  ISBN13: 9781108046411
Publisher: Cambridge Library Collection Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 30 Apr 2012
First published in 1852, this travel narrative charts Robert Fortune's search for the best tea specimens in China. 'My object is to give a peep into the Celestial Empire, to show its strange hills and romantic valleys, its rivers and canals ... More

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ISBN: 9780520272767 - A Malleable Map A Malleable Map
Karen Wigen

ISBN10: 0520272765  ISBN13: 9780520272767
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 23 Apr 2012
Probes regional cartography, choerography, and statecraft to redefine restoration (ishin) in modern Japanese history. This title argues that both the founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate (1600-1868) and the reformers of the Meiji era (1868... More

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ISBN: 9780199570331 - East Wind East Wind
Tom Buchanan

ISBN10: 0199570337  ISBN13: 9780199570331
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 19 Apr 2012
The first complete, archive-based account of the relationship between China and the British Left, from the rise of modern Chinese nationalism to the death of Mao Tse tung. East Wind offers the first complete, archive-based account of the... More

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ISBN: 9780470672914 - The Portuguese Empire in Asia, 1500-1700 The Portuguese Empire in Asia, 1500-1700
Sanjay Subrahmanyam

ISBN10: 0470672919  ISBN13: 9780470672914
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 10 Apr 2012
Featuring updates and revisions that reflect recent historiography, this new edition of The Portuguese Empire in Asia 1500-1700 presents a comprehensive overview of Portuguese imperial history that considers Asian and European perspectives. More

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ISBN: 9780674062566 - Toward a History Beyond Borders Toward a History Beyond Borders
Daqing Yang, Jie Liu, Hiroshi Mitani, Andrew Gordon

ISBN10: 0674062566  ISBN13: 9780674062566
Publisher: Harvard University, Asia Center
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 03 Apr 2012
Originally published simultaneously in Chinese and Japanese in 2006, this volume brings to English-language readers the fruits of a critical long-term project by Chinese and Japanese historians addressing contentious issues in their shared modern... More

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ISBN: 9780748646593 - Plague, Quarantines and Geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire Plague, Quarantines and Geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire
Birsen Bulmus

ISBN10: 0748646590  ISBN13: 9780748646593
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01 Apr 2012
A sweeping examination of Ottoman plague treatise writers from the Black Death until 1923 A sweeping examination of Ottoman plague treatise writers from the Black Death until 1923 Were you aware that many of the greatest and most colourful Ottoman... More

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ISBN: 9780521186759 - Chinese Publishing Chinese Publishing
Hu Yang, Yang Xiao

ISBN10: 0521186757  ISBN13: 9780521186759
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Edition: 3rd edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 19 Mar 2012
An illustrated introduction to the origins and development of printing and publication in China from ancient to modern times. As the birthplace of moveable-type printing, China has some claim to being the homeland of publishing. China's ancient... More

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ISBN: 9780521186803 - Chinese Tea Chinese Tea
Tong Liu

ISBN10: 0521186803  ISBN13: 9780521186803
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Edition: 3rd Revised edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 09 Mar 2012
An illustrated introduction to the ancient culture of tea in China and its popularisation around the world. China is world renowned as the homeland of tea planting, production and drinking. In this illustrated introduction Liu Tong provides a... More

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ISBN: 9780521186643 - Chinese Kung Fu Chinese Kung Fu
Guangxi Wang

ISBN10: 0521186641  ISBN13: 9780521186643
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Edition: 3rd Revised edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 09 Mar 2012
An illustrated introduction to the history and development of kung fu, a fascinating and popular branch of traditional Chinese culture. Wushu, the Chinese martial art form known as kung fu in the West, embodies traditional Chinese culture and... More