Empires of Vice. The Rise of Opium Prohibition across Southeast Asia, Paperback - Professor Diana S. Kim

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Professor Diana S. KimIllustration(s): 20 b/w illus. 6 tables. 6 maps.Number of pages: 336Collectio...

Reducere. San Francisco's Queen of Vice uncovers the story of one of the most skilled, high-priced, and corrupt abortion entrepreneurs in America. Even as Pr...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Diane EnnsNumber of pages: 216Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 139 x 215 x 23Cover type: ...

Reducere. A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America's most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the US Constitution was amended to...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading The Khmer Empire, a...

The Commander-in-Chief of the Burmese Army, nicknamed the "four-foot Colonel, " offers an account of his nation's struggle for independence from a ...

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This book examines the connections between the British Empire and French colonialism in war, peace and the various stages of competitive cooperatio...

This Element is for practitioners, policy-makers and researchers interested in the rights-culture-politics nexus in Southeast Asia. It investigates...

The first global history of the Normans, who - beyond the conquest of England - came to dominate Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East.Publ...

A unique survey of seven great Asian empires, powerful forces on the world stage during a thousand years of history and that continue to resonate i...

Reducere. During the boisterous days of American Prohibition, the Lake Chaplain region of New York State teemed with bootleggers, all hoping to make a fast b...

DescriptionBefore newspapers were ravaged by the digital age, they were a powerful force, especially in Australia -- a country of newspaper giants ...

Reducere. You are walking to your car and suddenly confronted by an armed attacker. What do you do? Knife assaults can be extremely dangerous and it is best ...

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Reducere. Developing a framework to study "what makes a region, " Amitav Acharya investigates the origins and evolution of Southeast Asian regionalism and in...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of Southeast Asia, then keep reading...Five captivating manuscripts in one book: History of Southea...

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Reducere. Wild Food Plants of the South Pacific and Southeast Asia is an introduction to the wide variety of edible food plants available on the islands of th...

Publisher: Prospect BooksAuthor(s): Alan DavidsonIllustration(s): 100 b&w illustrationsNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2003Dimensions: 248 x ...

The Karen tribe had been waiting for generations to hear the Word of God. The legend of the missing white book had been passed down throughout the ...

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This easy-to-use identification guide to the 129 species of mammal most commonly seen in Southeast Asia (covering Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos...

Explore the fascinating history of south-east Asia A Short History of South-East Asia, Sixth Edition is the latest in a series of updated texts spo...

Reducere. This book gives an overview of the history of KunTao, explaining the Hakka culture as well as how KunTao came into being. After tracing the history...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 165 x 245 x 18Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Iulia Lumin...

Publisher: John Beaufoy Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Emerson SyIllustration(s): 300 photographsNumber of pages: 176Collection: Naturalists' GuidesPubli...

With more than 200 spectacular photographs in a handy pocket format, Thailand is a stunning collection of images celebrating one of the most exciti...

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Reducere. A dazzling new history of the world through ten major empires.

Reducere. Like Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs, and Steel, Peter Turchin in War and Peace and War uses his expertise in evolutionary biology to make a highly or...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: David Seiwert The karambit has become extremely popular in recent years, spread by practitioners of Southeast Asian martial...

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Reducere. The late Pleistocene-early Holocene landscape hosted more species and greater numbers of them in the Southeast compared to any other region in Nort...

This fully revised and updated 3rd edition of A Naturalist's Guide to the Snakes of Southeast Asia is an easy-to-use identification guide to 264 sn...

East Asia hosts a fifth of the world's population and consumes over half the world's coal, a quarter of its petroleum products, and a tenth of its ...

Reducere. Tamerlane, the Ottomans, the Mughals, the Manchus, the British, the Japanese, the Nazis, and the Soviets: All built empires meant to last forever; ...

Reducere. Rethinking exhibition practices and histories in China and Southeast Asia.This book is the result of various ongoing assembly platforms linked toge...

A History of Southeast Asia: Critical Crossroads presents a comprehensive history of Southeast Asia from our earliest knowledge of its civilization...

Reducere. A New Yorker and Fortune Best Book of the Year Analyzing the strategic maneuvers of today's great information powers-Apple, Google, and an eerily r...

Reducere. It's 1975: Saigon has fallen, and erstwhile college-radical Caryn, now a young Chicago career woman on the climb, just got the letter that will set...

This Element examines gender in Southeast Asia by focusing on two main themes: hegemonic cultural constructions of gender and the way hegemonic ide...

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A dazzling new history of the world through ten major empires.

Description*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "Without Empire France today would only be a libera...

This Element examines the political nature of urban development; scrutinizes the implications of power inequality in urban development discussions;...

"They're mostly Muslims--they'll hate you " was the dire warning given to the author before she embarked upon the adventure that would change her l...

Abraham or Aristotle? First Millennium Empires and Exegetical Traditions: An Inaugural Lecture by the Sultan Qaboos Professor of Abrahamic Faiths Give

The Venture of Islam has been honored as a magisterial work of the mind since its publication in early 1975. In this three-volume study, illustrate...