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The Forgotten Army

India's Armed Struggle for Independence, 1942-1945

By: Peter Ward Fay

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The Forgotten Army

India's Armed Struggle for Independence, 1942-1945

By: Peter Ward Fay

The first complete history of the Indian National Army and its fight for independence against the British in World War II.

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596

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University of Michigan Press

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0472083422

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9780472083428

The Opium War, 1840-1842

Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century and the War by which They Forced Her Gates Ajar

By: Peter Ward Fay

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The Opium War, 1840-1842

Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century and the War by which They Forced Her Gates Ajar

By: Peter Ward Fay

This book tells the fascinating story of the war between England and China that delivered Hong Kong to the English, forced the imperial Chinese government to add four ports to Canton as places in which foreigners could live and trade, and rendered irrever

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444

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807847143

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9780807847145

Rising Sun Victorious

An Alternate History of the Pacific War

By: Peter G. Tsouras

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Rising Sun Victorious

An Alternate History of the Pacific War

By: Peter G. Tsouras

In war, victory can be held hostage to seemingly insignificant incidents–chance events, opportunities seized or cast aside–that can derail the most brilliant military strategies and change the course of history. What if the Japanese had conquered India and driven out the British? What if the strategic link between the United States and Australia had been severed? What if Vice Admiral Nagumo had launched a third attack on Pearl Harbor? What if the U.S. Navy’s gamble at Midway had backfired? Ten leading military historians ask these and other questions in this fascinating book. The war with Japan was rife with difficult choices and battles that could have gone either way. These fact-based alternate scenarios offer intriguing insights into what might have happened in the Pacific during World War II, and what the consequences would have been for America.

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389

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Tantor eBooks

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1618030205

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9781618030207

Pearl S. Buck

A Cultural Biography

By: Peter Conn,Peter J. Conn

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Pearl S. Buck

A Cultural Biography

By: Peter Conn,Peter J. Conn

One of the most popular novelists of the twentieth century, winner of a Pulitzer and Nobel Prize for Literature and an active social and political campaigner, particularly in the field of women's issues and Asian-American relations, Pearl Buck has, until now, remained 'hidden in public view'. Best known, perhaps, as the prolific author of The Good Earth, Buck led a career which extended well beyond her eighty works of fiction and non-fiction and deep into the public sphere. In this critically acclaimed biography, Peter Conn retrieves Pearl Buck from the footnotes of literary and cultural history and reinstates her as a figure of compelling and uncommon significance in twentieth-century literary, cultural and political history.

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502

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Cambridge University Press

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0521639891

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9780521639897

The Pursuit of Oblivion

A Global History of Narcotics

By: Richard Davenport-Hines,Richard Peter Treadwell Davenport-Hines

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The Pursuit of Oblivion

A Global History of Narcotics

By: Richard Davenport-Hines,Richard Peter Treadwell Davenport-Hines

In this uniquely comprehensive history of drugs and their role in society, award-winning historian Davenport-Hines examines how illicit medicines developed into a huge illegal business. Drawing on evidence from five centuries, "The Pursuit of Oblivion" is considered the standard work on this subject of global importance.

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596

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393325458

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9780393325454

Architectural Encounters with Essence and Form in Modern China

By: Peter G. Rowe,Seng Kuan

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Architectural Encounters with Essence and Form in Modern China

By: Peter G. Rowe,Seng Kuan

A study of traditional and modernist attitudes toward architecture in China from the 1840s to the present. Built around snatches of discussion overheard in a Beijing design studio, this book explores attitudes toward architecture in China since the opening of the Treaty Ports in the 1840s. Central to the discussion are the concepts of ti and yong, or "essence" and "form," Chinese characters that are used to define the proper arrangement of what should be considered modern and essentially Chinese. Ti and yong have gone through various transformations--for example, from "Chinese learning for essential principles and Western learning for practical application" to "socialist essence and cultural form" and an almost complete reversal to "modern essence and Chinese form." The book opens with a discussion of cultural developments in China in response to the forced opening to the West in the mid-nineteenth century, efforts to reform the Qing dynasty, and the Nationalist and Communist regimes. It then considers the return of overseas-educated Chinese architects and foreign influences on Chinese architecture, four architectural orientations toward tradition and modernity in the 1920s and 1930s, and the controversy over the use of "big roofs" and other sinicizing aspects of Chinese architecture in the 1950s. The book then moves to the hard economic conditions of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, when architecture was almost abandoned, and the beginning of reform and opening up to the outside world in the late 1970s and 1980s. Finally, it looks at the present socialist market economy and Chinese architecture during the still incomplete process of modernization. It closes with a prognosis for the future.

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312

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MIT Press

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026268151X

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9780262681513

Narcotic Culture

A History of Drugs in China

By: Frank Dikötter,Lars Peter Laamann,Xun Zhou

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Narcotic Culture

A History of Drugs in China

By: Frank Dikötter,Lars Peter Laamann,Xun Zhou

China was turned into a nation of opium addicts by the pernicious forces of imperialist trade. This study systematically questions this assertion on the basis of abundant archives from China, Europe and the US, showing that opium had few harmful effects on either health or longevity.

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350

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C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS

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1850657254

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9781850657255

Baring Brothers and the Birth of Modern Finance

By: Peter E Austin

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Baring Brothers and the Birth of Modern Finance

By: Peter E Austin

In 1995, the Baring Brothers collapsed over a weekend, brought down by the 'rogue trader' Nick Leeson. Utilizing British and American archives, this work charts Baring Brothers development from wool merchants to one of the most powerful global financial institutions. It also analyses the errors which led to its downfall.

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284

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Routledge

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1317314700

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9781317314707

The Bridge

The epic story of an Australian icon - the Sydney Harbour Bridge

By: Peter Lalor

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The Bridge

The epic story of an Australian icon - the Sydney Harbour Bridge

By: Peter Lalor

The definitive story of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, one of the world's most amazing engineering feats - a structure that has become a national icon.

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396

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Allen & Unwin

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174175027X

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9781741750270

Once a Lawman

By: Peter Brandvold

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Once a Lawman

By: Peter Brandvold

A courtesan and her client are found dead in the town of Clantick in the Montana Territory. Sheriff Ben Stillman must use his skills from his years as a Pinkerton detective to find the killer before the townsfolk take the law into their own hands.

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236

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Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated

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1587242397

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9781587242397

Hell on Wheels

By: Peter Brandvold

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Hell on Wheels

By: Peter Brandvold

On his way home from a wedding in Sulfur, Montana Territory, Sheriff Ben Stillman finds himself fighting a war against a clan of killers out for bloody revenge. Original.

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Berkley Publishing Group

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0425212173

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9780425212172

Book's by Peter Ward Fay

The Forgotten Army

The Forgotten Army

The Opium War, 1840-1842

The Opium War, 1840-1842

Rising Sun Victorious

Rising Sun Victorious

Pearl S. Buck

Pearl S. Buck

The Pursuit of Oblivion

The Pursuit of Oblivion

Architectural Encounters with Essence and Form in Modern China

Architectural Encounters with Essence and Form in Modern China

Narcotic Culture

Narcotic Culture

Baring Brothers and the Birth of Modern Finance

Baring Brothers and the Birth of Modern Finance

The Bridge

The Bridge

Once a Lawman

Once a Lawman

Hell on Wheels

Hell on Wheels

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