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  • The Port

    Hà Tiên and the Mo Clan in Early Modern Asia

    par Xing Hang ...
    The Port (present-day Hà Tiên), situated in the Mekong River Delta and Gulf of Siam littoral, was founded and governed by the Chinese creole Mo clan during the eighteenth century and prospered as a free-trade emporium in maritime East Asia. Mo Jiu and his son, Mo Tianci, maintained an independent polity through ambiguous and simultaneous allegiances to the Cochinchinese regime of southern Vietnam, ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • Conflict and Commerce in Maritime East Asia

    The Zheng Family and the Shaping of the Modern World, c.1620–1720

    par Xing Hang ...
    The Zheng family of merchants and militarists emerged from the tumultuous seventeenth century amid a severe economic depression, a harrowing dynastic transition from the ethnic Chinese Ming to the Manchu Qing, and the first wave of European expansion into East Asia. Under four generations of leaders over six decades, the Zheng had come to dominate trade across the China Seas. Their average annual ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai

    Maritime East Asia in Global History, 1550–1700

    par Tonio Andrade, Xing Hang, Anand A. Yang, Kieko Matteson, Professor Robert J. Antony, Dr. Robert K. Batchelor, Dr. Leonard Blusse, Professor Anna Busquets, Dr. Patrizia Carioti0, Dr. Weichung Cheng1, Dr. Adam Clulow2, Dr. Dahpon D. Ho3, Dr. Peter Kang4, Michael Laver5, Cheng-Heng Lu6, Dr. Mark Ravina7, Dr. Peter D. Shapinsky8, Birgit Tremml-Werner9, John E. Wills, , Jr.0 ...
    Collections series Perspectives on the Global Past
    Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai traces the roots of modern global East Asia by focusing on the fascinating history of its seaways. The East Asian maritime realm, from the Straits of Malacca to the Sea of Japan, has been a core region of international trade for millennia, but during the long seventeenth century (1550 to 1700), the velocity and scale of commerce increased dramatically. Chinese, ... En savoir plus

    $79.99 CAD

  • In North Korea

    An American Travels through an Imprisoned Nation

    par Xing Hang, Nanchu ...
    This is an account of an American woman's recent travels through North Korea. Throughout her journey, she continually witnessed rundown villages, starving children with hollow eyes, haggard women crawling in the fields for single grains of rice and civilians unloading food aid at the point of bayonets.The author predicts that North Korea's economic reform, which has just started, will progress ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

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  • The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia

    par James C. Scott ...
    For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the organized state societies that surround them—slavery, conscription, taxes, corvée labor, epidemics, and warfare. This book, essentially an “anarchist history,” is the first-ever examination of the huge ... En savoir plus

    $38.49 CAD

  • A History of East Asia

    From the Origins of Civilization to the Twenty-First Century

    par Charles Holcombe ...
    Charles Holcombe begins by asking the question 'what is East Asia?' In the modern age, many of the features that made the region - now defined as including China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam - distinct have been submerged by the effects of revolution, politics or globalization. Yet, as an ancient civilization, the region had both an historical and cultural coherence. This shared past is at the heart ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD

  • A Short History of Laos

    The land in between

    par Grant Evans ...
    Laos, perhaps the least known country in mainland Southeast Asia, stands at the region's crossroads. This small 'land in between' is surrounded by China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Burma-countries that, in pre-modern times, provided Lao kings with a field for territorial expansion. But more often, Laos has been a bridge between these powerful neighbours, and an arena in which they and their ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Everything Under the Heavens

    How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power

    par Howard W. French ...
    From the former New York Times Asia correspondent and author of China's Second Continent, an incisive investigation of China's ideological development as it becomes an ever more aggressive player in regional and global diplomacy.For many years after its reform and opening in 1978, China maintained an attitude of false modesty about its ambitions. That role, reports Howard French, has been set ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

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  • A Brief History of Vietnam

    Colonialism, War and Renewal: The Story of a Nation Transformed

    par Bill Hayton ...
    Collections series Brief History of Asia Series
    A comprehensive guide to understanding Vietnam's long and tumultuous historyA Brief History of Vietnam explores the turbulent history of a land that has risen from the ashes of war to become the newest Asian tiger economy. This book expertly examines the history of a people and a nation with ancient roots which only took its current shape in the 19th century under French colonial rule, and its ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

  • Viet Nam

    A History from Earliest Times to the Present

    par Ben Kiernan ...
    For many Westerners, the name Vietnam evokes images of a bloody televised American war that generated a firestorm of protest and brought conflict into their living rooms. In his sweeping account, Ben Kiernan broadens this vision by narrating the rich history of the peoples who have inhabited the land now known as Viet Nam over the past three thousand years. Despite the tragedies of the American ... En savoir plus

    $26.39 CAD

  • A Short History of China and Southeast Asia

    Tribute, Trade and Influence

    par Martin Stuart-Fox ...
    China, the world's most populous nation, has always exerted great influence on the traditional kingdoms and modern states of Southeast Asia. Today, history and culture continue to shape the modern relationship.In this concise volume, Martin Stuart-Fox charts the history of relations between China and Southeast Asia across two millennia, examining patterns of diplomacy, commercial networks, and ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • A History of Southeast Asia

    Critical Crossroads

    par Anthony Reid ...
    Collections series Blackwell History of the World
    2016 PROSE Award Honorable Mention for Textbook in the HumanitiesA History of Southeast Asia: Critical Crossroads presents a comprehensive history of Southeast Asia from our earliest knowledge of its civilizations and religious patterns up to the present day.Incorporates environmental, social, economic, and gender issues to tell a multi-dimensional story of Southeast Asian history from earliest ... En savoir plus

    $44.99 CAD