White Mughals
White Mughals by William Dalrymple is a captivating and heart-wrenching tale set in late 18th and early 19th century India. It chronicles the passionate love affair between James Achilles Kirkpatrick, the British Resident at the court of Hyderabad, and Khair un-Nissa, the enchanting great-niece of the Prime Minister of Hyderabad. Their romance defies the rigid cultural, religious, and political boundaries...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Vietnam
Vietnam by Max Hastings is an unparalleled exploration of the Vietnam War, providing a gripping and comprehensive account of this turbulent period. Drawing on three years of meticulous research and interviews with individuals from all sides of the conflict, Hastings offers an epic narrative that vividly brings to life the ground-breaking events and personal experiences of those who lived through...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today-
On China
On China by Henry Kissinger offers a profound examination of the historical and contemporary intricacies of one of the world's oldest civilizations and its burgeoning role as a global superpower. Drawing from his extensive experience and personal involvement in Sino-American relations, Kissinger provides readers with an unparalleled perspective on China’s diplomatic traditions, strategic thinking, and its journey through centuries of...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today 
The Forgotten Home Front
As the Korean War (1950-1953) drew to a close and South Korea began to rebuild, American GI Roger Marshutz (1929-2007) was stationed in Pusan to photograph U.S. reconstruction efforts. In his spare time, Marshutz also wandered the streets, documenting the daily life of Korean civilians. The Forgotten Home Front: Roger Marshutz's Photographs of Pusan, South Korea, 1952-1954 offers both an...Hardback$9799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Race and Power in British India
By the nineteenth century, the British had ruled India for over a hundred years and had consolidated their power over the sub-continent. Until 1858, when Queen Victoria assumed sovereignty following the Indian Rebellion, the country was run by the East India Company—by this time a hybrid of state and commercial enterprises and eloquently and fiercely attacked as intrinsically immoral and...Paperback$6599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Mao’s Last Revolution
The Cultural Revolution was a watershed event in the history of the People's Republic of China, the defining decade of half a century of communist rule. Before 1966, China was a typical communist state, with a command economy and a powerful party able to keep the population under control. But during the Cultural Revolution, in a move unprecedented in any...Paperback$9900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
China’s Cosmopolitan Empire
The Tang dynasty is often called China's "golden age," a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections spanning from Korea and Japan to the Persian Gulf, and a time of unsurpassed literary creativity. China’s Cosmopolitan Empire by Mark Edward Lewis captures this dynamic era in which the empire reached its greatest geographical extent under Chinese rule. During this period, painting...Paperback$6799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Pre-orderA Brief History of the Philippines
A fascinating story of national resilience and pride through centuries of colonial rule, World War II, independence, dictatorship, People Power, and the global diaspora of Filipinos!A Brief History of the Philippines tells the sweeping story of a nation whose past is filled with epic struggles, improbable triumphs, and an enduring search for identity in a world that has too often...Paperback$1499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips from Supplier
Writing Empire and Self
China's early medieval period, from the fifth through the early seventh century, from the Northern and Southern Dynasties through the unified Sui, was a time of political fragmentation, military strife, and ethnic conflict. It also witnessed brilliant artistic creations as well as a full flowering of court culture, with poetry at its heart. How did poetry come to be regarded...Paperback$13700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
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The Camphor War
The First Opium War is remembered as the defining conflict between Britain and China in the nineteenth century. In stark contrast, the Camphor War of 1868 has faded into obscurity. Lasting for only a few weeks, the clash arose from British interests in breaking the Qing monopoly over the lucrative trade in camphor, which was cultivated in Taiwan and widely...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableOut 15 Sep 2026Pre-order -
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The Book of China
In the early sixteenth century, a Persian-speaking Muslim merchant named ʿAli Akbar Khatayi travelled to China and stayed for six years. There, he acquired inside knowledge of the Ming imperial court and gained familiarity with the government bureaucracy, the military, and the daily lives and culture of ordinary people. In a treatise presented to the rulers of the Ottoman Empire,...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableOut 30 Oct 2026Pre-order -
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The Arts of Japan
This exciting new volume focuses on the arts of Japan through the lens of creativity and innovation, drawing on current scholarship in the field and providing some historical context for developments over time. Despite a deep respect for tradition, Japanese artists also process and restructure ideas and technologies from abroad to develop entirely new styles and techniques. Certain themes crop...Paperback$2500Unit price /UnavailableOut 21 Sep 2026Pre-order -
Shallow Blue Empire
A nuanced history of seafaring communities in the Indian Ocean, where the force of British imperial power depended on the expertise of local divers and sailors to feed a global demand for pearls. In the late nineteenth century, thousands of men and boys across the northern rim of the Indian Ocean dove daily to the ocean floor in search of...Hardback$10700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Privileged but Powerless
A compelling examination of North Korea's elites, their hidden discontent, and the role they may play in shaping the regime's future In her second book on North Korea, Privileged but Powerless, Jieun Baek offers a deeply researched and sharply analytical account of the grievances harboured by the country's elite. Drawing on hours of in-depth interviews with escapees from Pyongyang, Baek...Hardback$12900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
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Living with Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi was an anticolonial activist, lawyer, and politician. Less famously, but no less importantly, he was also a back-to-the-land farmer, a founder of communes, and a seeker of utopia. Living with Gandhi: Experiments in Utopia tells the story of everyday life at four of Gandhi’s communities in India and South Africa. It explores who lived at each community alongside...Paperback$2500Unit price /UnavailableOut 21 Sep 2026Pre-order -
Exquisite Things and Strange Wonders
A defence of poetry from a towering figure of the medieval Persianate world. Written in 1294 as the introduction to a book of poetry, the Dībācha-yi dīvān-i ghurrat al-kamāl became a lauded work in its own right. Its author, Amir Khusraw Dihlavi (1253-1325), was a poet, historian, courtier, Sufi, and musician whose influence still resonates. In this extraordinary text, he...Hardback$9600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
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Compelling and important - Rana Mitter, The Observer Few books qualify as essential reading but Ghost Nation is one of them - Clive Hamilton, bestselling co-author of The Hidden Hand The gripping story of Taiwan's rich past and precarious present from the country's top foreign correspondent. Taiwan is the geopolitical tinderbox of the 21st century, sitting at the heart of...Paperback$2399Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableOut 20 Oct 2026Pre-order-
Russian-Turkmen Encounters
In the mid-eighteenth century, the Russian tsar sent two expeditions across the Caspian Sea in response to an extraordinary plea for assistance from the recently subjugated Kalmyk Khan. The official journals of these expeditions, here translated into English for the first time, record the encounters of Captains Tebelev and Kopitovskii (in 1741 and 1745, respectively) with the Turkmen tribes of...Paperback$6599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Private Life Of Chairman Mao
For 22 years, Dr Zhisui Li was Mao Tse-tung's personal physician, confidant and companion. He saw Mao and his country through the years of "the Great Leap Forward" and the Cultural Revolution. In this book, Li reveals details of Mao's relations with Krushchev and other Soviet leaders, and the growing paranoia that led Mao to turn against the Chinese Communist...Paperback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Battle of Tassafaronga
The Battle of Tassafaronga, on 30 November 1942, was the fifth and last major night surface action fought off Savo Island during World War II's Guadalcanal campaign. It ended a string of Japanese victories but was a horrible embarrassment to the U.S. Navy, which had three heavy cruisers damaged and one sunk by enemy torpedoes. After the battle, American commanders...Paperback$6200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Life of Mahatma Gandhi
The Life of Mahatma Gandhi by Louis Fischer is hailed as "the best biography of Gandhi... I was enthralled from the first page... it changed my life" — Sir Richard Attenborough. According to The Times, it is "a monumental yet intimate biography, a vivid portrait of the man, the statesman and the saint." Mahatma Gandhi became a legend in his...Paperback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
By More Than Providence
Soon after the American Revolution, certain of the founders began to recognise the strategic significance of Asia and the Pacific and the vast material and cultural resources at stake there. Over the coming generations, the United States continued to ask how best to expand trade with the region and whether to partner with China, at the centre of the continent,...Hardback$9499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Pre-orderThe Shortest History of Delhi
The essential introduction to a city that has captivated imaginations for millennia. Delhi, with its stories of intrigue and empire, decadence and artistry, destruction and rebirth, has been exhilarating travellers for centuries. Its history stretches back thousands of years, through invasions, empires and the struggle for independence. This many-layered history can be seen on the streets of Delhi today -...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order
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From an indispensable voice on China (Evan Osnos) comes a riveting, first-hand account of China's seismic progress. America used to pride itself on ambition. Today, it looks stuck. Meanwhile, China has been busy building the future. Over the past six years, technology analyst Dan Wang lived through China's astonishing, messy progress and the dissolution of its relationship to the West....Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableOut 6 Oct 2026Pre-order
Women, Wealth and the State in Early Colonial India
Few polities were more instrumental to the rise of the East India Company and the advent of British colonial rule in South Asia than the Mughal successor state of Awadh (c. 1722–1856). And few individuals influenced the making of the Awadh regime and its pivotal relationship with the Company more than the chief consorts, the begams. Women, Wealth and the...Paperback$10100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
We Are Soldiers Still
Lt. Gen. Harold Moore and Joseph Galloway return to Vietnam's Ia Drang Valley more than four decades after the battle they recalled in their #1 New York Times bestseller We Were Soldiers Once ...and Young. Renewing their relationships with ten American veterans of the fabled conflict—and with former adversaries—the authors explore how the war changed them all, as well as...Paperback$5300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Unraveling Heart
Women's songs of the grind mill are among the oldest oral traditions in South Asia. They have been sung to accompany a daily household labour, making flour using a stone hand mill, for many centuries. Even today, grind mill songs are still well known in Maharashtra, testifying to the endurance of a remarkable genre. Yet these songs have long been...Hardback$45900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Traitor
In postwar Japan, a writer meets a small-town innkeeper who is obsessed with a tale from the nineteenth century. He relates the saga of Enomoto Takeaki, an admiral in the final years of the Tokugawa shogunate who regained authority under the Meiji government. A former member of imperial Japan's military police, the innkeeper dwells on the question of loyalty even...Hardback$33000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Sinostan
Based on more than a decade's writing, research, and travel, this book offers a rare glimpse into China's expanding economic, cultural, and political power in the Eurasian heartland. China's rise is changing the world. Much attention has been given to how China's geo-economic vision is playing out in the global economy, or how its technology is reshaping the planet, yet...Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Rajmata Kunti
This book is a combination of meticulous research and profound insights into the multifaceted character of Kunti. It is a laudable endeavour, establishing the persona of Rajmata Kunti—her philosophy, her contribution, and her indelible impact on Indian history. Kunti embodies strength, endurance, and grace. The book brings her to life with sensitivity and depth, highlighting how Kunti has inspired generations...Hardback$8400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Pakistan’s Ethnic Tensions
This book studies the ethnic tensions in Pakistan and their repercussions on its territorial integrity and stability as a multi-ethnic and pivotal state located at the trijunction of South Asia, South-West Asia, and Central Asia. It analyses the causes of the emergence of ethnic tensions in Pakistan since its inception and considers their likely course in the future. The study...Hardback$52100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Memoirs of Phạm Duy, a Vietnamese Musician in a Turbulent Century
Memoirs of Phạm Duy, A Vietnamese Musician in a Turbulent Century tells the story of the triumphs, scandals, and adventures of Vietnam's most prolific songwriter. Born in 1921, Phạm Duy came of age during colonial rule, joined the anti-French resistance, and later became a major voice of the southern Republic before coming to the United States as an exile after...Hardback$43800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Lyric Poetry As State Criticism in Modern Japan
Lyric Poetry as State Criticism in Modern Japan explores how seemingly apolitical verse became a subtle vehicle for political expression under censorship. In an era of intense state control, Japanese poets such as Kitahara Hakushū, Hagiwara Sakutarō, Yonezawa Nobuko, and Ōte Takuji turned to lyric poetry to discuss police censorship and surveillance of modern media, state-sponsored efforts at Western-style modernization,...Paperback$10600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Lyric Poetry As State Criticism in Modern Japan
Lyric Poetry as State Criticism in Modern Japan explores how seemingly apolitical verse became a subtle vehicle for political expression under censorship. In an era of intense state control, Japanese poets such as Kitahara Hakushū, Hagiwara Sakutarō, Yonezawa Nobuko, and Ōte Takuji turned to lyric poetry to discuss police censorship and surveillance of modern media, state-sponsored efforts at Western-style modernization,...Hardback$44900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Linguistic Resistance in Pakistan
Soon after independence in 1947, the Pakistani government adopted a language policy that promoted the use of Urdu. This provoked a strong reaction in provinces where languages such as Bengali, Sindhi, Punjabi, Pashto, and Balochi were spoken by the majority, giving rise to movements that sought to protect them. In Punjab, provincial authorities decreed that Urdu would be the sole...Paperback$12200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Linguistic Resistance in Pakistan
Soon after independence in 1947, the Pakistani government adopted a language policy that promoted the use of Urdu. This provoked a strong reaction in provinces where languages such as Bengali, Sindhi, Punjabi, Pashto, and Balochi were spoken by the majority, giving rise to movements that sought to protect them. In Punjab, provincial authorities decreed that Urdu would be the sole...Hardback$43400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Japanese-Russian Transnational Comparison
This book examines the transnational circulation of knowledge between Russia and Japan from the early Meiji era to the present day, reconfiguring the East-West paradigm both in terms of socio-geographical divides and cultural and political tensions within both cultures. Featuring chapters from the fields of literature, history, philosophy, film, and social and political thought, the case studies give interdisciplinary examples...Hardback$54700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
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Focusing on Indonesia and Malaysia, Islam and Colonialism examines how European colonial and Islamic modernising powers operated in the common and parallel domains of government and politics, law and education in the first half of the twentieth century. The book demonstrates that colonialisation was able to coexist with Islamisation, arguing that Islamic movements were not necessarily antithetical to modernisation, nor...Paperback$6999Unit price /UnavailableOut 8 Sep 2026Pre-order-
For a Just Republic
From the forging of a constitution for the post-independence republic to the reign of Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party today, the idea of India as a nation-state has predominated. Yet the country encompasses a vast diversity of communities, regions, languages, and cultures, calling into question any unitary identity. In this magisterial account of Indian politics over the past seventy-five years,...Hardback$41900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Empires of the Southern Ocean
Drawing on recent archaeological and historical research, this book presents the fascinating developments in the archaeology of prehistoric societies of mainland Southeast Asia. Empires of the Southern Ocean offers a sweeping and authoritative account of the emergence, expansion, and transformation of early state-level societies across the regions that today encompass Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam. Spanning from the...Hardback$28600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Emotional Filipinos
In the first half of the twentieth century, the United States attempted to build a colony in the Philippines in its own image—one fraught with racist notions of what it means to be civilized, developed, and worthy of self-rule. These imported notions of race and modernity left a profound imprint on the nation. More recently, we have seen a menacing...Hardback$39600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Critical Failures
Critical Failures revisits the overlooked messiness at the heart of Japan's early experiments with modern criticism. In the Meiji era, young intellectuals posited that mastering the art of critical reading – called hihyō – was essential for Japan's advancement on the world stage. Yet, while they made concerted efforts to theorize hihyō and proposed ambitious ideals, their actual reading practice...Hardback$44900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Critical Failures
Critical Failures revisits the overlooked messiness at the heart of Japan's early experiments with modern criticism. In the Meiji era, young intellectuals posited that mastering the art of critical reading – called hihyō – was essential for Japan's advancement on the world stage. Yet, while they made concerted efforts to theorise hihyō and proposed ambitious ideals, their actual reading practice...Paperback$12200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Contesting Memorial Spaces of Japan's Empire
Ongoing arguments over how histories are honoured – as evidenced by the conflict between South Korea and Japan over the opening of Tokyo’s Heritage Information Centre in June 2020 – reveal the extent to which heritage processes enable states to assert legitimacy and power on a global stage. Here, Contesting Memorial Spaces of Japan’s Empire shines a timely spotlight on...Paperback$13400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Concubines in Public
Moving beyond familiar narratives of abolition, Xia Shi introduces the contentious public presence of concubines in Republican China. Drawing on a rich variety of historical sources, Shi highlights the shifting social and educational backgrounds of concubines, showing how some served as public companions of elite men in China and on the international stage from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth...Hardback$26700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Appearance Politics
Appearance Politics, by Lex Lu, argues that crafting an appealing and powerful outward image has long been a critical political tool in China. This strategy is evident in historical records, imperial portraits, physiognomic assessments, photographs, posters, statues, and digital images. Using rare archival materials from Beijing, Shanghai, and Nanjing, Lu explores how political figures designed their images and examines the...Paperback$12800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Agrarian Superpower
The United States's superpower status is often associated with its industrial, financial, and military might. Yet its global power after the Second World War hinged in part on something often seen as backward: agriculture. In contrast to Britain, the predominant global power of the nineteenth century, which depended on its current and former colonies for food and raw materials, the...Hardback$43700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
A Confucian theory of power
In the book's lead essay, Sungmoon Kim offers a comprehensive analysis of Confucian power. Through a blend of philosophical, political, and historical analysis, Kim challenges the dominant idea that Confucianism is primarily centred on virtue ethics. Instead, he argues that Confucianism perceives power through the prism of responsibility. Kim not only traces this perspective throughout history but also demonstrates its...Hardback$38000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Venice and the Mongols
A global history of commercial and cultural exchange between two great powers of the medieval age. In the mid-thirteenth century, Europe was shaken by the Mongol invasions. Realising the immense potential for accessing remote markets in the East, Venetian merchants, diplomats, and seafarers established far-flung commercial networks with the Mongol Empire. Venice and the Mongols tells the story of this...Hardback$12200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Park Chung Hee Era
In 1961 South Korea was mired in poverty. By 1979 it had a powerful industrial economy and a vibrant civil society in the making, which would lead to a democratic breakthrough eight years later. The transformation took place during the years of Park Chung Hee's presidency. Park seized power in a coup in 1961 and ruled as a virtual dictator...Paperback$6199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Sons of Heaven
Sons of Heaven is the first accessible, newly researched account in English of the imperial family who ruled Ming China (1368-1644), one of the country's most dynamic and influential eras. Beginning with a fresh look at what a dynasty really was, the book follows the lives of emperors, empresses, relatives and those who came into the imperial orbit. Uniquely drawing...Hardback$8000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Hideyoshi
Here is the first full-length biography in English of the most important political figure in premodern Japan. Hideyoshi—peasant turned general, military genius, and imperial regent of Japan—is the subject of an immense legendary literature. He is best known for the conquest of Japan's sixteenth-century warlords and the invasion of Korea. He is known, too, as an extravagant showman who rebuilt...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
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From Life Itself
'A gripping portrait of a crisis-ridden Turkey' — PANKAJ MISHRA 'A dizzying tour de force that leaves the reader with a sense of wonder' — ELIF BATUMAN 'Intimate and revealing' — MOHSIN HAMID Pulitzer finalist Suzy Hansen chronicles the age of authoritarianism in Turkey through an intimate portrait of its people. In the midst of a world in upheaval, Erdogan...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableOut 1 Sep 2026Pre-order -
Empires of the Southern Ocean
Drawing on recent archaeological and historical research, this book presents the fascinating developments in the archaeology of prehistoric societies of mainland Southeast Asia. Empires of the Southern Ocean offers a sweeping and authoritative account of the emergence, expansion, and transformation of early state-level societies across the regions that today encompass Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam. Spanning from the...Paperback$12099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Contemporary China
The fourth edition of this concise textbook offers students a comprehensive introduction to the politics, economy, culture, and society of modern China, while grounding all of these areas in the context of China’s recent history in the 19th and 20th centuries. Fully up to date, this accessible text examines key developments that are shaping China's place in the world today,...Paperback$6599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Pre-orderConquering the North
A panoramic history of the roots of China and Mongolia’s historic rivalry… and why it matters now. ‘A beguiling blend of history and intimate narrative – and a delight to read.’ Colin Thubron, author of Shadow of the Silk Road The Great Wall of China – stretching from the arid rises of Gansu province to the cold waters of the...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableOut 1 Sep 2026Pre-order
Approaching the Buddha
Through images of 28 sculptures created over the course of 15 centuries, this book sheds light on how different cultures have depicted the Buddha over time. Approaching the Buddha: Transmission and Transformation highlights works from the Xuzhou Collection of Buddhist Art, a private collection of masterpieces from major Buddhist cultures across the Asian continent. These works tell the life story...Hardback$8200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Gurkha Way
In the 18th century in the town of Gorkha, just north of Kathmandu, ruler Prithvi Narayan fought campaigns against his neighbours and the British. During the fighting, his warriors, renowned for their aggression and courage, gained the respect of the British, who appreciated that the steadfast warriors would make excellent soldiers. Upon the declaration of peace in 1816, a partnership...Hardback$7999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week-
From the Blitz to the Burmese Jungle and Beyond: a Memoir by Hennessy
One man's memoir of World War II which took him from the Blitz to the jungles of Burma, to the devastation of Hiroshima. I consider myself lucky to have survived the global carnage still myself - a reluctant soldier who had to go to war, who only ever wanted peace for everyone. - Brian Hennessy Brian immigrated to New Zealand...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week 
Escape from the Taliban
Deeba first left Afghanistan in 2002, fleeing a war-torn country and an abusive husband shortly after she was captured by the Taliban and nearly sold to an Arab Shaikh, narrowly escaping due to a small twist of fate. In June 2021, Deeba returned to visit family in Kabul to organise the engagement of her son. Regardless of the Taliban's progress,...Hardback$7999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
Pre-orderThe Little Book of Japanese Mythology
The Little Book of Japanese Mythology invites you to discover the timeless tales of heroes, deities, creatures, and villains from one of the world's most influential cultures. Rooted in Shinto and Buddhist traditions, ancient legends about spirits, creatures, deities, and creation have been recounted by Japanese families from generation to generation. Where once these tales were told to understand the...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableOut 20 Oct 2026Pre-order
Villages and Market Towns in Hong Kong
Ever since he came to Hong Kong some 50 years ago, Patrick Hase has researched the local history of Hong Kong, and especially of the New Territories villages and market towns. Written documentation for the study of these communities has been lacking, so much of the research was conducted by way of oral interviews with village elders, conducted during the...Paperback$9199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Pearl of Khorasan
Herat is one of the most significant trading and cultural entrepôts of Eurasia, which has long celebrated its Persian heritage. Charlie Gammell's splendid account spans its history to the present day. The city of Herat in western Afghanistan long sat at the edge of empires and served as a hub for trade and a conduit for armies. Yet it has...Paperback$8900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Idea of China
An acclaimed historian's bold response to two simple, yet vexed, questions: What counts as China, and who counts as Chinese? China became a capitalist superpower by investing in globalization. Now that it has established its credentials and emerged as a major US competitor, its leaders are looking within, focused on suppressing dissent and fostering cohesion. The result has been an...Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Japan
A history of the Japanese archipelago through its material artefacts over fifteen millennia. This spirited visual account of life in the Japanese archipelago spans over 15,000 years, revealing the stories behind an intriguing selection of objects from the British Museum Collection. It explores the history of the region through artefacts, from the lengthy prehistoric record, through the rise of Buddhism...Hardback$8500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
I'll Walk Beside You
From the fall of Java to the hell of the Burma–Thai Railway, one battalion’s courage becomes a nation’s story. February 1942. The troopship HMT Orcades lies in port at Java, heavy with Australian soldiers whose fate hangs in the balance. Among them are brothers Cal and Alan, unaware that their journey will take them into the darkest reaches of human...Paperback$4199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
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Cycling Myanmar, Mandalay, and the Nylon Hotel over three decades, Daniel Ehrlich opens a series of windows onto people and places held captive in time. Through beautifully crafted vignettes of coming and going, meeting and waiting, we are invited to get to know a prince among sidecar drivers, an anglophile living on the banks of the Irrawaddy, a long-haired freedom-fighting...Paperback$4500Unit price /UnavailableOut 14 Sep 2026Pre-order
Hokusai Prints Coloring Book
A colouring book for adults featuring iconic prints by Japan's most famous artist. This beautifully designed adult colouring book presents 23 iconic ukiyo-e prints by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), one of Japan's most influential artists. Each artwork is reproduced in full colour and perforated for easy removal and display, making it simple to enjoy the art both during and after colouring....Paperback$4600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
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Fashioning the Asian Century
If the 21st century can be described as the Asian century, what does this Pan-Asian ascendency mean for fashion? Fashioning the Asian Century offers various compelling perspectives on this fascinating and urgent question. Exploring the influence of Asian fashion both within and beyond China, India, Japan, Korea and Thailand, this collection of essays is written by contributors from across the...Paperback$5899Unit price /UnavailableOut 15 Oct 2026Pre-order -
Emperor of the Seas
Astonishing... Brings to life a thriving – and rather civilized – empire - The Telegraph Sparkles with energy, insight and passion... difficult to put down. Nicholas Morton, BBC History Magazine Control the sea, and you control everything... a gripping tale of dynastic rivalry and innovation, from the author of the classic work Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern...Paperback$5000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
The Steppe and Its Empires
The Steppe and Its Empires offers a broad comparative study that highlights the importance of the Eurasian steppe and its impact on the arc of Russian history. Throughout its existence, Russia has been a hybrid empire shaped by both Europe and Asia. Focusing on the formation of the Russian state between the sixteenth and the mid-nineteenth centuries, renowned historian Michael...Hardback$7100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
The First Social Democracy
Following the collapse of the Russian Empire, the small nation of Georgia established its independence in May 1918. Its leaders surprised the world by creating the first social democratic state. Based on a combination of parliamentarianism and direct democracy, it was a representative government of the peasants and workers themselves, with ballots in their hands. The First Social Democracy is...Hardback$10600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Painting into Being
Amid the political turmoil of China’s Cultural Revolution, a small group of painters in Beijing defied state control, creating art in secrecy that challenged the ideological constraints of their time. Painting into Being is the first in-depth study of underground art during this period, focusing on the Wuming (No Name) Painting Group, active from 1972 to 1981, in conjunction with...Hardback$19400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
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The War Against Japan offers a detailed and visually rich account of the campaign in South East Asia and the Pacific during the Second World War, tracing the causes, course, and consequences of the conflict from its origins in the 1930s to the attack on Pearl Harbor and through to VJ Day and beyond. The historical narrative is enriched with...Hardback$8780Unit price /UnavailableOut 9 Oct 2026Pre-order-
Wisdom of the Shoguns
In the Age of the Shoguns, great leaders were philosophers whose strength was measured not just by the sword but by patience, wisdom, and moral clarity! In the wake of the Emmy Award-winning Shogun series, interest in Japan's ancient Samurai culture has never been higher. This book offers a bridge between their world and ours with a collection of sayings...Hardback$4000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week 
Japan's Amazing Bullet Trains
An illustrated history of Japan's amazing bullet trains — the original high-speed network! This first-ever photographic history offers a rare archival look at the rise and evolution of the legendary system that has crisscrossed Japan for over 60 years. Make station stops as the lines linked and expanded. Trace the tech evolution of trains that became sleeker and ever faster...Hardback$6200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Wild Swans
The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author. An engrossing record of Mao's impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in...Paperback$5700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Hare with Amber Eyes
A New York Times BestsellerAn Economist Book of the YearCosta Book Award Winner for BiographyGalaxy National Book Award Winner (New Writer of the Year Award) Edmund de Waal is a world-famous ceramicist. Having spent thirty years making beautiful pots—sold, collected, and handed on—he has a particular sense of the secret lives of objects. When he inherited a collection of 264...Paperback$5400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY • A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY • AN OPRAH DAILY BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE PAST TWO DECADES “Inspiring . . ....Paperback$5100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Pre-orderMichael Palin in the Philippines
A richly illustrated account of Michael Palin's latest travel adventure. Michael Palin in the Philippines sees him exploring one of the most fascinatingly complex and contradictory countries on earth – the Philippines. It's a popular tourist destination, but also a place of extreme poverty for many. It's a nation where religious beliefs are strongly held and divorce is illegal, yet...Hardback$4499Elsewhere:$5500Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order
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