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Europe

From the Abode of Islam to the Turkish Vatan The Making of National Homeland in Turkey

Ozkan Behlul

ISBN: PB: 9780300172010, Yale University Press, July 2012
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 27 black&white illus.

How do people move from tribal and religiously based understandings of society to a concept of the modern nation-state? This book examines the complex and pivotal case of Turkey. Tracing the shifting valences of vatan (Arabic for "birthplace" or "hom...

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Gender Studies

Asia

Unfinished Gestures Devadasis, Memory, and Modernity in South India

Soneji Davesh

ISBN: PB: 9780226768106, ISBN: HB: 9780226768090, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 48 halftones, 6 line illus.

"Unfinished Gestures" presents the social and cultural history of courtesans in South India who are generally called devadasis, focusing on their encounters with colonial modernity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Following a hundred...

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America

Objectifying China, Imagining America Chinese Commodities in Early America

Frank Caroline

ISBN: PB: 9780226260280, ISBN: HB: 9780226260273, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 49 halftones, 1 line illus.

With the ever-expanding presence of China in the global economy, Americans more and more look east for goods and trade. But as Caroline Frank reveals, this is not a new development. China loomed as large in the minds – and account books – of eighteen...

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Literary Criticism

Asia

Korean Treasures, Volume 1 Rare Books, Manuscripts and Artefacts in the Bodleian Libraries and Museums of Oxford University

Chung Minh

ISBN: HB: 9781851242870, Bodleian Library Publishing, December 2011
112 pp., 25x21 cm, 82 colour illus.

Many important and valuable manuscripts, rare books, and artefacts related to Korea have been acquired by donations throughout the long history of the Bodleian Library and the museums of the University of Oxford. However, due to an early lack of spec...

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Political Science

China or Japan Which Will Lead Asia?

Meyer Claude

ISBN: PB: 9781849042154, ISBN: HB: 9781849041720, Hurst Publishers, December 2011
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The twenty-first century will doubtless be that of Asia, which by 2030 will be home to three of the world's four mightiest economies, including India. This stimulating book aims to open a debate on the question of leadership in...

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Political Science

Anti-Marcos Struggle Personalistic Rule and Democratic Transition in the Philippines

Thompson Mark R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300184150, Yale University Press, November 2011
274 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

The Philippine dictatorship of Ferdinand E. Marcos was characterized by family-based rule and corruption. This sultanistic regime-in which the ruler exercised power freely, without loyalty to any ideology or institution-had to be brought down because...

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Asia

Libertine's Friend Homosexuality and Masculinity in Late Imperial China

Vitiello Giovanni

ISBN: HB: 9780226857923, University of Chicago Press, August 2011
312 pp., 23x16 cm, 18 halftones

Delving into three hundred years of Chinese literature, from the mid-sixteenth century to the mid-nineteenth, "The Libertine's Friend" uncovers the complex and fascinating history of male homosexual and homosocial relations in the late imperial era....

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Middle East

Asia

Imagining Zion Dreams, Designs, and Realities in a Century of Jewish Settlement

Troen S. Ilan

ISBN: PB: 9780300178531, Yale University Press, April 2011
360 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

This timely book tells the fascinating story of how Zionists colonizers planned and established nearly 700 agricultural settlements, towns, and cities from the 1880s to the present. This extraordinary activity of planners, architects, social scientis...

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Asia

History

Mixed Medicines Health and Culture in French Colonial Cambodia

Au Sokhieng

ISBN: PB: 9780226031644, ISBN: HB: 9780226031637, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
280 pp., 22.6x15.5 cm, 2 tables, 19 halftones, 4 line illus.

During the first half of the twentieth century, representatives of the French colonial health services actively strove to expand the practice of Western medicine in the frontier colony of Cambodia. But as the French physicians ventured beyond their c...

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Military

Asia

Dead Reckoning Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War

Bose Sarmila

ISBN: PB: 9781849040495, ISBN: HB: 9781849040488, Hurst Publishers, April 2011
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This ground-breaking book chronicles the 1971 war in South Asia by reconstituting the memories of those on opposing sides of the conflict. 1971 was marked by a bitter civil war within Pakistan and war between India and Pakista...

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