Nonfiction - Asian Reads
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Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /An extraordinary story of romance, history, and divided loyalties — set against the backdrop of one of the most dramatic events of the twentieth ...
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The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /A fascinating history of China’s relations with the West—told through the lives of two eighteenth-century translatorsThe 1793 British embassy to ...
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Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India
PaperbackOriginal price $45.00Original price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In less that one hundred years, the British made themselves the masters of India. They ruled for another hundred, leaving behind the independent ...
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For the Love of Wine: My Odyssey through the World's Most Ancient Wine Culture
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /In 2011 when Alice Feiring first arrived in Georgia, she felt as if she'd emerged from the magic wardrobe into a world filled with mythical chara...
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The Rise and Rule of Tamerlane / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /This is the first serious study of Tamerlane, the great nomad conqueror who rose to power in 1370 on the ruins of the Mongol Empire and led his a...
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When Asia Was the World: Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created the ""Riches of the ""East""
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /While European civilization stagnated in the "Dark Ages," Asia flourished as the wellspring of science, philosophy, and religion. Linked together...
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Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The forgotten story of Central Asia's enlightenment—its rise, fall, and enduring legacyIn this sweeping and richly illustrated history, S. Freder...
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1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /The brilliance of the Renaissance laid the foundation of the modern world. Textbooks tell us that it came about as a result of a rediscovery of t...
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Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Written with the style of a great novelist and the intrigue of a Cold War thriller, Embers of War is a landmark wo...
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Inglorious Empire: what the British did to India
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In the eighteenth century, India’s share of the world economy was as large as Europe’s. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decr...
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The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In this evocative study of the fall of the Mughal Empire and the beginning of the Raj, award-winning historian William Dalrymple uses previously ...
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Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A Best Book of the Year: The Economist, Slate, Kirkus ReviewsIn 1839, nearly 20,000 British troops poured through the mountain passes into Afghan...
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The Qing Empire and the Opium War: The Collapse of the Heavenly Dynasty
PaperbackOriginal price $40.99 - Original price $40.99Original price $40.99$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /The Opium War of 1839–42, the first military conflict to take place between China and the West, is a subject of enduring interest. Mao Haijian, o...
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The Cambridge History of Japan
HardcoverOriginal price $91.99 - Original price $91.99Original price $91.99$109.99$109.99 - $109.99Current price $109.99| /This third volume in The Cambridge History of Japan is devoted to the three and a half centuries spanning the final decades of the twelfth centur...
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The Cambridge History of Japan
HardcoverOriginal price $91.99 - Original price $91.99Original price $91.99$109.99$109.99 - $109.99Current price $109.99| /Japan's ancient age was a period of radical and political change during which a Chinese-style empire emerged. This volume of The Cambridge Histor...
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The Cambridge History of Japan
HardcoverOriginal price $104.00 - Original price $104.00Original price $104.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /This volume provides the most comprehensive treatment of the Heian period, the golden age of the Japanese imperial court, in any Western language...
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The Anarchy
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEARNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal and NPR The epic story of how th...
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The Anarchy
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Finalist for the Cundill History Prize ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street ...
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Samurai: An Illustrated History
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Samurai: An Illustrated History brings the violent, tumultuous, and, at the same time, elegant world of the medieval Japanese samurai to life. This...
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Forged in America: How Irish-Jewish Encounters Shaped a Nation
HardcoverOriginal price $89.00 - Original price $89.00Original price $89.00$111.99$111.99 - $111.99Current price $111.99| /Examines how Irish and Jewish Americans defined their place in a complex society.The story of America is the story of the unlikely groups of immi...
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Georgia (Gruusia)
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Georgia: Maastamuuttokohde, jossa on maailman paras hinta-laatusuhde?! Maastamuutto on suuren ihmisryhmän "tehtävälistan" kärjessä. Useimmat i...
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Gold Rush Societies, Environments and Migrant Networks in the Tasman World
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /This book creatively explores the gold rushes in the Tasman World through an examination of the Otago gold rushes, revealing how transnational conn...
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Under Stalin's Shadow: A Global History of Greek Communism
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /Under Stalin's Shadow examines the history of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) from 1918 to 1956, showing how closely national Communism was rel...
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Empire of Influence
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$116.99$116.99 - $116.99Current price $116.99| /Indirect rule is widely considered as a defining feature of the nineteenth and twentieth century British Empire but its divisive earlier history re...
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