Asia
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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 -
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 -
Power versus Law in Modern China: Cities, Courts, and the Communist Party [Hardback]
Qiang Fang (Author); Xiaobing Li (Author)
£36.00ISBN: 9780813173931
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Asia in the New Millennium
Today 700 million Chinese citizens -- more than fifty-four percent of the population -- live in cities. The mass migration of rural populations to urban centers increased rapidly following economic reforms of the 1990s, and serious problems such a... .... Learn More -
Water in Kentucky: Natural History, Communities, and Conservation [Paperback]
Brian D. Lee (Editor); Tricia Coakley (Other); Jeffrey W. Stringer (Other); Emma Whitt (Other); Jamey Wiglesworth (Other)
£32.00ISBN: 9780813175157
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Home to sprawling Appalachian forests, rolling prairies, and the longest cave system in the world, Kentucky is among the most ecologically diverse states in the nation. Lakes, rivers, and springs have shaped and nourished life in the Commonwealth ... .... Learn More -
At the Decisive Point in the Sinai: Generalship in the Yom Kippur War [Hardback]
Jacob Even (Author); Simcha B. Maoz (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9780813169552
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Foreign Military Studies
The Yom Kippur War pitted Israel against Syria in the north and Egypt in the south in October 1973. Caught by surprise and surrounded by enemies, Israel relied on the flexibility and creative thinking of its senior field commanders. After Israeli ... .... Learn More -
Puspika: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions [Paperback]
Lucas den Boer (Editor); Daniele Cuneo (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781785707568
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Puspika: Tracing Ancient India through Texts and Traditions
Volume: 4
Puṣpikā Volume 4 contains the proceedings of the seventh International Indology Graduate Research Symposium (Leiden 2015). The fourteen papers included here cover a rich variety of topics related to the intellectual traditions of South As... .... Learn More -
First Islanders: Prehistory and Human Migration in Island Southeast Asia [Hardback]
Peter Bellwood (Author)
Regular Price: £60.00
Special Price: £45.00
ISBN: 9781119251545
Published by : Wiley-Blackwell
Incorporating research findings over the last twenty years, First Islanders examines the human prehistory of Island Southeast Asia. This fascinating story is explored from a broad swathe of multidisciplinary perspectives and pays close attention ... .... Learn More
