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This is a study of the origins and nature of Japanese imperialism from the Sino-Japanese war of 1894-1895 through to 1945. Japan is the only Asian country in modern times to have built both a successful industrial economy and an empire, and it is Professor Beasley's...
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OUP Oxford
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1987-03-05
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Gandhi led several important movements against british rule. The champaran satyagraha was organized to support farmers suffering under oppressive plantation systems. The non-cooperation movement encouraged indians to boycott british institutions and goods. The civil...
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Rob Satterfield
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2026-01-19
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This book follows gandhi’s life as a continuous experiment in truth. From moral formation and early fear, through law, humiliation, and the emergence of satyagraha, to nonviolence, simplicity, fasting, and the catastrophic final years of partition, gandhi is presented...
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Rob Satterfield
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2026-01-08
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In this deeply researched and beautifully written biography, readers are invited to walk alongside gandhi from his quiet childhood in porbandar to his years of awakening in south africa, and from his fearless leadership in india’s freedom movement to his enduring...
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Rob Satterfield
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2025-12-30
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Vo Nguyen Giap, Southeast Asia's most successful Communist general, Minister of Defense and Commander in Chief of North Vietnam's army, shares with Premier Khrushchev a conviction that the future holds many "just wars of national liberation." This volume stresses the...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2025-12-20
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I Dialoghi di Confucio influenzano ancora oggi in profondità la cultura cinese poiché, insieme alle altre opere che costituiscono i Quattro Libri, insegnano le principali virtù: il decoro, la giustizia, la lealtà e la pietà filiale. Per circa due millenni, questi...
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Cactus
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2024-07-25
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An account of four generations of Mongol leaders, from Genghis Khan, through his sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons. The book is arranged into a series of narratives, which are grouped dynastically and chronologically covering the span of the Thirteenth Century, and...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2022-05-12
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These are the memoirs of the great mystic and teacher who inspired a generation of disciples and followers before, during and briefing after the Second World War. In Meetings With Remarkable Men Gurdjieff introduces us to some of the companions he encountered in his...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2021-11-10
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Longlisted, RBC Taylor PrizeIn the shadows of the Altai Mountains live the Kazakh nomads of western Mongolia. These hard-living nomads survive on windswept steppes, grazing their herds and keeping an ancient practice alive: hunting not with traps or guns, but on...
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Goose Lane Editions
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2019-10-15
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Patriots, Traitors and Empires is an account of modern Korean history, written from the point of view of those who fought to free Korea from the domination of foreign empires. It traces the history of Korea’s struggle for freedom from opposition to Japanese colonialism...
Editeur :
Baraka Books
Parution :
2018-04-01
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A history of Chinese immigrants encounter with Canadian Protestant missionaries, “His Dominion” and the “Yellow Peril”: Protestant Missions to Chinese Immigrants in Canada, 1859-1967, analyzes the evangelizing activities of missionaries and the role of religion in...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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2010-02-25
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Editions SR
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