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  • Chronicling Westerners in Nineteenth-Century East Asia

    Lives, Linkages, and Imperial Connections

    Edited by Professor Robert S.G. Fletcher, Associate Professor Robert Hellyer ...
    Series series SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan
    This book presents intimate, engaging, and largely untold portraits of Western lives and livelihoods in Japanese and Chinese treaty ports, as well as in the British colonies of Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand, during the 19th century. It does so by examining how Westerners 'chronicled' their overseas lives in personal letters, diplomatic dispatches, business records, and academic papers. By ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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    The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age

    by Stephen R. Platt ...
    As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country’s last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War.As one of the most potent turning points in the country’s modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today’s China seeks to put behind it. In this dramatic, epic story, ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • The Brutish Museums

    The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution

    by Dan Hicks ...
    New York Times 'Best Art Books' 2020'Essential' – Sunday Times'Brilliantly enraged' - New York Review of Books'A real game-changer'– EconomistWalk into any Western museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit. Accompanying pieces of card offer a name, date and place of origin. They do not mention that the objects are all stolen ... Read more

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  • Ten Cities that Made an Empire

    by Tristram Hunt ...
    From Tristram Hunt, award-winning author of The Frock-Coated Communist and leading UK politician, Ten Cities that Made an Empire presents a new approach to Britain's imperial past through the cities that epitomised itThe final embers of the British Empire are dying, but its legacy remains in the lives and structures of the cities which it shaped. Here Tristram Hunt examines the stories and ... Read more

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  • Chinese Martial Code

    The Art of War of Sun Tzu, The Precepts of War by Sima Rangju, Wu Zi on the Art of War

    by A. L. Sadler ...
    Chinese Martial Code provides clear, easy-to-follow translations of three of the most respected Chinese works of military strategyIt features a masterful translation of The Art of War of Sun Tzu-the most respected of all works of military strategy-as well as the less famous but equally wise The Precepts of War by Sima Rangju and Wu Zi On the Art of War.Additionally, A. L. Sadler's translation is ... Read more

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  • Forgotten Armies

    Britain's Asian Empire and the War with Japan

    by Christopher Bayly, Tim Harper ...
    The vast crescent of British-ruled territories from India down to Singapore appeared in the early stages of the Second World War a massive asset in the war with Germany, providing huge quantities of soldiers and raw materials and key part of an impregnable global network denied to the Nazis. Within a few weeks in 1941-2 a Japanese invasion had destroyed all this, almost effortlessly taking the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Finding Japan

    Early Canadian Encounters with Asia

    by Anne Shannon ...
    In contrast to the widely known experiences of Asian immigrants who came to Canada, this book looks at movement in the opposite direction. Using text and images, it is a collection of stories about how Canadians “found Japan,” the first place they reached when travelling westward across the Pacific.These connections began as early as 1848, when the adventurous son of a Hudson’s Bay Company trader ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Empireland

    How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain

    by Sathnam Sanghera ...
    A best-selling journalist’s illuminating tour through the hidden legacies and modern realities of British empire that exposes how much of the present-day United Kingdom is actually rooted in its colonial past. Empireland boldly and lucidly makes the case that in order to understand America, we must first understand British imperialism."Empireland is brilliantly written, deeply researched and ... Read more

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  • Empire Made Me

    An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai

    by Robert Bickers ...
    'This is a biography of a nobody that offers a window into an otherwise closed world. It is a life which manages to touch us all...' Empire Made MeShanghai in the wake of the First World War was one of the world's most dynamic, brutal and exciting cities - an incredible panorama of nightclubs, opium-dens, gambling and murder. Threatened from within by communist workers and from without by Chinese ... Read more

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  • The History of Canada Series: Trouble on Main Street

    Mackenzie King Reason Race And The 1907 Vancouver Riots

    by Julie F Gilmour ...
    Series series History of Canada
    The weather on the Labour Day weekend of 1907 was hot and tempers were short. British Columbians had always been sensitive to Asian immigration and had become increasingly fearful over the summer. More Japanese immigrants were coming to B.C. and rumours smouldered of massive labour contracts for the projected Grand Trunk Pacific Railway.Like the citizens of Seattle and San Francisco, the residents ... Read more

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  • Dragon and Kangaroo

    Australia and China's Shared History from the Goldfields to the Present Day

    by Robert Macklin ...
    The fascinating story of the Chinese presence in and influence on this country - our intertwined history from colonial times to today.Chinese 'presence' in Australia extends from well before the time of Captain Cook - trading with northern Australia long before Europeans came here - right through to the present day, with Chinese activities ranging from being the main customer for our iron ore, to ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Opium and Empire

    The Lives and Careers of William Jardine and James Matheson

    by Richard Grace ...
    In 1832 William Jardine and James Matheson established what would become the greatest British trading company in East Asia in the nineteenth century. After the termination of the East India Company's monopoly in the tea trade, Jardine, Matheson & Company's aggressive marketing strategies concentrated on the export of teas and the import of opium, sold offshore to Chinese smugglers.Jardine and ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD