History of Asia

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India (6)

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Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion and the Afghan Response, 1979-1982
by Mohammed Kakar - University of California Press , 1997
Every ninth Afghan had died, every seventh has been disabled, every third had fled abroad: this book reveals the true horror of this unfortunate conflict. The author is an Afghan historian who has studied Afghan society, culture, and politics.
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Arabia: The Cradle Of Islam
by Samuel Zwemer - Blue Light Publishing , 2002
The ethnological, geographical, archeological, and political information of this text brings to our hands a valuable and readable summary of facts, and quicken an interest in one of the great religious and international problems of our times.
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Chinese History in Economic Perspective
by Thomas G. Rawski, Lillian M. Li - University of California Press , 1992
The essays assembled here represent a turning point in the study of Chinese economic history. These studies break new ground, bringing Western economic theory to the study of China's economy since the seventeenth century.
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Inscribed Landscapes: Travel Writing from Imperial China
by Richard E. Strassberg - University of California Press , 1994
This anthology is the only comprehensive collection in English of Chinese travel writing from the first century A.D. through the nineteenth. The anthology is abundantly illustrated with paintings, portraits, maps, and drawings.
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Struggle for Asia
by Francis Low - Books for Libraries Press , 1972
Intended to supply a background on Asian affairs for the average citizen, who has neither the time nor the inclination to pursue intensive research, but who reads the daily papers and is frequently puzzled by developments which occur in Asia.
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The Andaman Islands
by F. Dass - South Asia Books , 1988
Easy to read book on the subject of the Andaman islands and their strange aboriginal inhabitants. The author naively and cheerfully lists his facts and graphic descriptions, adds a few personal observations and then goes on to the next topic.
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The Civilization of China
by Herbert A. Giles - Historical Text Archive , 1990
A brief outline of Chinese civilization from the earliest times down to the 20th century. The book was written for readers who know little or nothing of China, in the hope that it may succeed in alluring them to a wider and more methodical survey.
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Villehardouin and de Joinville: Memoirs of the Crusades
by Geoffroi de Villehardouin - Dutton , 1955
Written by eye-witnesses who had taken an important part in what they describe. Stirring episodes in one of the most stirring chapters in human history. How Christendom put forth its power to capture and again recapture the holy land.
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