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The Complete Commercial Artist: Making Modern Design in Japan, 1928–1930

The Complete Commercial Artist: Making Modern Design...

Author: Gennifer Weisenfeld
ISBN: 9781736863343
Format: Paperback
$158.40

A revelatory, beautifully produced compendium of the influential Japanese commercial design journal, with posters,...  Read More >>

Fighting on the Cultural Front: U.S.-China Relations in the Cold War

Fighting on the Cultural Front: U.S.-China Relations...

Author: Hongshan Li
ISBN: 9780231207041
Format: Hardback
$248.95

Hongshan Li provides a groundbreaking account of the confrontation between the United States and the People’s Republic...  Read More >>

Colonialism and Communalism: Religion and Changing Identities in Modern India

Colonialism and Communalism: Religion and Changing Identities...

Author: M. Christhu Doss (Christ University, Bengaluru, India)
ISBN: 9781032732381
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Doss demonstrates how the multicultural Indian society, known widely for its composite culture, and secular convictions...  Read More >>

Science and the British Empire

Science and the British Empire

Author: Rajesh Kochhar (Panjab University Mathematics Department, Chandigarh)
ISBN: 9781032435183
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book studies the linkages between science, technology, and institution building in Colonial and modern India....  Read More >>

Brothers in Arms

Brothers in Arms

Author: Perry Pierik
ISBN: 9798224830923
Format: Paperback
$86.99

Suffering due to the consequences of the border revision of mid-europe, romania, led by marshal antonescu, opted...  Read More >>

Henrietta Szold: Hadassah and the Zionist Dream

Henrietta Szold: Hadassah and the Zionist Dream

Author: Francine Klagsbrun
ISBN: 9780300247787
Format: Hardback
$34.95

Award-winning author Francine Klagsbrun reveals the complex life and work of Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah...  Read More >>

Hiroshima and the Historians: Debating America's Most Controversial Decision

Hiroshima and the Historians: Debating America's Most...

Author: Kenneth B. Pyle (University of Washington)
ISBN: 9781009477444
Format: Paperback
$59.49

The decision to use atomic bombs in 1945 was one of the most controversial in historical memory. In this thought-provoking...  Read More >>

Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II

Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the...

Author: Evan Thomas
ISBN: 9780399589270
Format: Paperback
$60.72

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Sedition: Macaulay to Modi

Sedition: Macaulay to Modi

Author: Rijul Singh Uppal
ISBN: 9781032768946
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book examines the trajectory of the sedition law from its introduction by the British colonial power and its...  Read More >>

Jerusalem Interrupted: Modernity and Colonial Transformation 1917 - Present

Jerusalem Interrupted: Modernity and Colonial Transformation...

Author: Lena Jayyusi
ISBN: 9781623716776
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Most histories of twentieth-century Jerusalem published in English focus on the city's Jewish life and neighbourhoods;...  Read More >>

The Enigma of Egypt: Exploring the Untold Secrets of the Pyramids

The Enigma of Egypt: Exploring the Untold Secrets of...

Author: Devarajan Pillai G
ISBN: 9798224063833
Format: Paperback
$79.20

"""The Enigma of Egypt: Exploring the Untold Secrets of the Pyramids"" is a captivating journey into the heart of...  Read More >>

The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Making of the Modern Middle East

The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Making...

Author: Eugene Rogan
ISBN: 9781541604278
Format: Hardback
$84.48

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Antioch on the Orontes: History, Society, Ecology, and Visual Culture

Antioch on the Orontes: History, Society, Ecology, and...

Author: Andrea U. De Giorgi (Florida State University)
ISBN: 9781108833998
Format: Hardback
$362.25

Drawing on a vast body of modern research, this volume offers an archaeological and historical overview of Antioch...  Read More >>

On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar

On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar...

Author: Clare Hammond
ISBN: 9780241623893
Format: Hardback
$55.00

An immersive, magisterial portrait of Myanmar, told through the story of its hidden railways In 2016, while working...  Read More >>

Hiroshima and the Historians: Debating America's Most Controversial Decision

Hiroshima and the Historians: Debating America's Most...

Author: Kenneth B. Pyle (University of Washington)
ISBN: 9781009477451
Format: Hardback
$181.13

The decision to use atomic bombs in 1945 was one of the most controversial in historical memory. In this thought-provoking...  Read More >>

Global Gold: Aesthetics, Material Desires, Economies in the Late Medieval and Early Modern World

Global Gold: Aesthetics, Material Desires, Economies...

Author: Thomas B. F. Cummins ,  Abigail Krasner Balbale
ISBN: 9780674296176
Format: Paperback
$68.95

The interdisciplinary essays in Global Gold—by scholars of European, American, African, and Asian history and art...  Read More >>

Biographies of Port Said: Everydayness of State, Dwellers, and Strangers: Cairo Papers in Social Science Vol. 36, No. 1

Biographies of Port Said: Everydayness of State, Dwellers,...

Author: Mostafa Mohie
ISBN: 9781649032300
Format: Paperback
$79.07

A study of how the city of Port Said was created, and its spaces mutually produced and transformed through the practices...  Read More >>

Understanding the Public Sector in Egyptian Cinema: A State Venture: Cairo Papers in Social Science Vol. 35, No. 3

Understanding the Public Sector in Egyptian Cinema:...

Author: Tamara Chahine Maatouk
ISBN: 9781649032287
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Public and government attitudes to the role of the public sector in Egyptian cinema In 1957 the public sector in...  Read More >>

On Friendship between the No Longer and the Not Yet: An Ethnographic Account: Cairo Papers in Social Science Vol. 35, No. 4

On Friendship between the No Longer and the Not Yet:...

Author: Soha Mohsen
ISBN: 9781649032294
Format: Paperback
$79.07

"An ethnographic study of the contemporary meanings, forms, and purposes of friendship among young Egyptians There...  Read More >>

Oral History in Times of Change: Gender, Documentation, and the Making of Archives: Cairo Papers in Social Science Vol. 35, No. 1

Oral History in Times of Change: Gender, Documentation,...

Author: Hoda Elsadda
ISBN: 9781649032355
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Challenges, opportunities, and methodological issues in the creation of oral history archives in the Arab world...  Read More >>

International Migration in the Euro-Mediterranean Region: Cairo Papers in Social Science Vol. 35, No. 2

International Migration in the Euro-Mediterranean Region:...

Author: Ibrahim Awad
ISBN: 9781649032270
Format: Paperback
$79.07

A multilayered, multidisciplinary examination of migration in the Euro-Mediterranean region during two centuries...  Read More >>

The Shortest History of Japan

The Shortest History of Japan

Author: Lesley Downer
ISBN: 9781760643850
Format: Paperback
$27.99

This brilliantly distilled and entertaining history takes the reader from Japan's prehistoric beginnings right up...  Read More >>

Balinese Food: The Traditional Cuisine & Food Culture of Bali

Balinese Food: The Traditional Cuisine & Food Culture...

Author: Vivienne Kruger
ISBN: 9780804857574
Format: Paperback
$13.50

"Explore the exotic world of Balinese cooking—a cuisine dedicated to the gods and fueled by an aromatic array of...  Read More >>

Odar: Jido, A Journey Through Community

Odar: Jido, A Journey Through Community

Author: Denice Peter Karamardian
ISBN: 9798990098213
Format: Hardback
$71.25

Hovsep Karamardian is on the precipice of adulthood. Finishing his education, he awaits a life in the family business...  Read More >>

Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir

Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir...

Author: Omer Aijazi
ISBN: 9781512823608
Format: Paperback
$85.80

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