Asia
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Paul Rusch in Postwar Japan: Evangelism, Rural Development, and the Battle against Communism [Hardback]
Andrew T. McDonald (Author); Verlaine Stoner McDonald (Author)
£29.00ISBN: 9780813176079
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Paul Rusch first traveled from Louisville, Kentucky, to Tokyo in 1925 to help rebuild YMCA facilities in the wake of the Great Kanto earthquake. What was planned as a yearlong stay became his life's work as he joined with the Japan Episcopal Churc... .... Learn More -
The Compassionate Bodhisattva: Unique Southeast Asian images of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara [Hardback]
Sofia Sundström (Author)
£75.00ISBN: 9789088906183
Published by : Sidestone Press
Southeast Asia has a long history with Buddhism that continues to the present day. Centuries ago, Buddhism spread to various areas of Southeast Asia, where some of the greatest Buddhist images and monuments were produced over 1,000 years ago. Thes... .... Learn More -
A Zooarchaeological Study of the Haimenkou Site, Yunnan Province, China [Paperback]
Juan Wang (Author)
Regular Price: £45.00
Special Price: £15.00
ISBN: 9781407316130
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Haimenkou was an important location, with trade and cultural links connecting parts of modern Southeast Asia and northwestern China in ancient times. This book is based on an analysis of the faunal assemblage recovered from the Haimenkou site duri... .... Learn More -
North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa: Enabling Violence and Instability [Hardback]
Bruce E. Bechtol (Author)
£25.50ISBN: 9780813175881
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
North Korea has posed a threat to stability in Northeast Asia for decades. Since Kim Jong-un assumed power, this threat has both increased and broadened. Since 2011, the small, isolated nation has detonated nuclear weapons multiple times, tested a... .... Learn More -
Stalin's Nomads: Power and Famine in Kazakhstan [Paperback]
Robert Kindler (Author)
£22.50ISBN: 9780822965435
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Central Eurasia in Context
Robert Kindler's seminal work is a comprehensive and unsettling account of the Soviet campaign to forcefully sedentarize and collectivize the Kazakh clans. Viewing the nomadic life as unproductive, and their lands unused and untilled, Stalin and h... .... Learn More -
Relics and Relic Worship in Early Buddhism: India, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Burma [Paperback]
Janice Stargardt (Editor); Michael Willis (Editor)
£35.00ISBN: 9780861592180
Published by : British Museum Press
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Volume: 218
Among world religions, only Buddhism and Christianity attach a central significance to the role of relics. These two traditions, however, are different in both conceptual and material terms. In Buddhism, the most sacred relics are those considered... .... Learn More -
Learning to Become Turkmen: Literacy, Language, and Power, 1914-2014 [Paperback]
Victoria Clement (Author)
£22.50ISBN: 9780822964636
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Central Eurasia in Context
Learning to Become Turkmen examines the ways in which the iconography of everyday life—in dramatically different alphabets, multiple languages, and shifting education policies—reflects the evolution of Turkmen society in Central Asia over the ... .... Learn More -
Social Memory and State Formation in Early China [Hardback]
Min Li (Author)
Regular Price: £110.00
Special Price: £75.00
ISBN: 9781107141452
Published by : Cambridge University Press
In this book, Li Min proposes a new paradigm for the foundation and emergence of the classical tradition in early China, from the late Neolithic through the Zhou period. Using a wide range of historical and archaeological data, he explains the dev... .... Learn More -
Cityscapes and Monuments of Western Asia Minor: Memories and Identities [Hardback]
Eva Mortensen (Editor); Birte Poulson (Editor)
Regular Price: £60.00
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ISBN: 9781785708367
Published by : Oxbow Books
Cityscapes consist of houses, streets, civic buildings, sanctuaries, tombs, monuments and inscriptions created by multiple generations of citizens and foreigners with an interest in the city; they are interpreted and reinterpreted as expressions o... .... Learn More -
The Rise and Fall of Khoqand, 1709-1876: Central Asia in the Global Age [Paperback]
Scott Levi (Author)
£22.50ISBN: 9780822965060
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Central Eurasia in Context
This book analyzes how Central Asians actively engaged with the rapidly globalizing world of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In presenting the first English-language history of the Khanate of Khoqand (1709–1876), Scott C. Levi examines th... .... Learn More
