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  • Jerusalem

    The Biography – A History of the Middle East

    par Simon Sebag Montefiore ...
    Thoroughly updated and revised for 2024, JERUSALEM: THE BIOGRAPHY is the history of the Middle East through the lens of the Holy City and the Holy Land, from King David to the wars and chaos of today.The history of Jerusalem is the story of the world: Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths. The Holy City and Holy Land are the battlefields for today ... En savoir plus

    9,49 €

  • The Anarchy

    The Relentless Rise of the East India Company

    par William Dalrymple ...
    THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARFINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019A FINANCIAL TIMES, OBSERVER, DAILY TELEGRAPH, WALL STREET JOURNAL AND TIMES BOOK OF ... ... En savoir plus

    11,42 €

  • China

    A History

    par John Keay ...
    Three thousand years of Chinese history in an accessible and authoritative single volume.Despite the recent rise of China to a position of dominance on the world economic stage, Chinese history remains an elusive subject. Yet it is this vast narrative of appalling loss, superhuman endeavour and incredible invention that has made China the superpower it is today. From the dawn of legend to the ... En savoir plus

    12,89 €

  • Breakneck

    China's Quest to Engineer the Future

    par Dan Wang ...
    The New York Times bestseller, Financial Times and Sunday Times Book of the YearShortlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the YearThe book we need to understand China today: a riveting, first-hand account of its seismic progress from an indispensable expert voiceFor close to a decade, Dan Wang has been observing China’s tumultuous and astounding gr... ... En savoir plus

    Avant 14,99 € Après 10,99 €

  • Les Routes de la Soie

    L'histoire du cœur du monde

    par Peter Frankopan ...
    Traduit par Guillaume Villeneuve ...
    Collection Livre 1 - Les Routes de la Soie
    D’Alexandre le Grand aux nouvelles Routes de la Soie, 2500 ans d’histoire comme vous ne l’avez jamais lue.Avec son « histoire du cœur du monde », Peter Frankopan renverse notre récit traditionnel, qui gravite autour de la Grèce antique, de Rome et de l’irrésistible ascension de l’Occident. Une approche réductrice, qui mérite une relecture urgente et approfondie.L’auteur élargit la perspective et ... En savoir plus

    12,99 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Wild Swans

    Three Daughters of China

    par Jung Chang ...
    OVER 13M COPIES SOLD – THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING PHENOMENON – NUMBER 8 ON SUNDAY TIMES BEST OF THE BESTSELLER LISTFew books have had such an impact as Wild Swans: a popular bestseller which has sold more than 13 million copies and a critically acclaimed history of China; a tragic tale of nightmarish cruelty and an uplifting story of bravery and survival.Through the story of three generations ... En savoir plus

    8,99 €

  • Pakistan: A Hard Country

    par Anatol Lieven ...
    DAILY TELEGRAPH and INDEPENDENT BOOKS OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 20122011 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALISTIn the wake of Pakistan's development of nuclear weapons, unpoliceable border areas, shelter of the Afghan Taliban and Bin Laden, and the spread of terrorist attacks by groups based in Pakistan to London, Bombay and New York, there is a clear need to look further than the ... En savoir plus

    9,49 €

  • Underground

    par Haruki Murakami ...
    Murakami tells the true story behind an act of terrorism that turned an average Monday morning into a national disaster.In spite of the perpetrators' intentions, the Tokyo gas attack left only twelve people dead, but thousands were injured and many suffered serious after-effects. Murakami interviews the victims to try and establish precisely what happened on the subway that day.He also interviews ... En savoir plus

    10,99 €

  • De njai

    het concubinaat in Nederlands-Indie

    par Reggie Baay ...
    In het koloniale Nederlands-Indië hebben altijd meer Europese mannen dan Europese vrouwen gewoond. Voor dit blanke mannenoverschot vond men een praktische oplossing: het concubinaat. De soldaten, planters of ambtenaren gingen samenleven met een Indonesische, of ook wel een Chinese of Japanse vrouw. Zo n vrouw werd een njai genoemd. Haar geschiedenis (en die van haar kinderen) wordt in De njai voor ... En savoir plus

    9,99 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Cultural Revolution

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Richard Curt Kraus ...
    Collection series Very Short Introductions
    China's decade-long Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution shook the politics of China and the world. Even as we approach its fiftieth anniversary, the movement remains so contentious that the Chinese Communist Party still forbids fully open investigation of its origins, development, and conclusion. Drawing upon a vital trove of scholarship, memoirs, and popular culture, this Very Short ... En savoir plus

    6,99 €

  • Revolusi

    par David Van Reybrouck ...
    Vijf jaar lang werkte David Van Reybrouck aan zijn monumentale Revolusi. Hij interviewde bijna tweehonderd mensen, de laatste nog levende getuigen van de onafhankelijkheidsstrijd, in Indonesische rusthuizen, Japanse miljoenensteden en op verafgelegen eilanden. Ook in Nederland bracht zijn onderzoek tal van nieuwe verhalen aan het licht. De veelheid aan perspectieven en herinneringen weeft Van ... En savoir plus

    16,99 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • India in the Persianate Age

    1000-1765

    par Richard M. Eaton ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE'Remarkable ... this brilliant book stands as an important monument to an almost forgotten world' William Dalrymple, SpectatorA sweeping, magisterial new history of India from the middle ages to the arrival of the BritishThe Indian subcontinent might seem a self-contained world. Protected by vast mountains and seas, it has created its own religions, ... En savoir plus

    12,99 €

  • Trespassers on the Roof of the World

    The Race for Lhasa

    par Peter Hopkirk ...
    No other land has captured man's imagination quite like Tibet. Hidden away behind the highest mountains on earth, and ruled over by a mysterious God-king, it was for centuries a land forbidden to all outsiders.In this remarkable and ultimately tragic narrative, Peter Hopkirk recounts the forcible opening up of this medieval Buddhist kingdom by inquisitive Western travellers during the nineteenth ... En savoir plus

    3,99 €

  • Istanbul

    A Tale of Three Cities

    par Bettany Hughes ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Life-filled and life-affirming history, steeped in romance and written with verve' GUARDIAN'Richly entertaining and impeccably researched' Peter FrankopanIstanbul has always been a place where stories and histories collide and crackle, where the idea is as potent as the historical fact. From the Qu'ran to Shakespeare, this city with three names - Byzantium, ... En savoir plus

    6,99 €

  • Return of a King

    The Battle for Afghanistan

    par William Dalrymple ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2013'As taut and richly embroidered as a great novel . . . a masterpiece' Sunday Telegraph'Dazzling' Sunday Times | 'Magnificent' Guardian | 'Sparkling' Daily TelegraphA towering history of the first Afghan War by bestselling historian William Dalrymple.In the spring of 1839, Britain invaded Afghanistan for the first t... ... En savoir plus

    11,42 €

  • Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

    par Jack Weatherford ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The startling true history of how one extraordinary man from a remote corner of the world created an empire that led the world into the modern age—by the author featured in Echoes of the Empire: Beyond Genghis Khan.The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every country the ... En savoir plus

    8,44 €

  • Among the Russians

    par Colin Thubron ...
    "There is no travel writer working today in English who possesses such a remarkable combination of the observant and the lyric gifts--the most poetic of us all." — Jan MorrisThe first book in Thubron's Russian trilogy AMONG THE RUSSIANS, called "superb" by the New York Times Book Review, recounts Thurbon's 10,000 mile journey throughout half of Russia's cities and countryside.Here is a fresh ... En savoir plus

    8,99 €

  • Vaisakhi

    par Gurjinder Singh ...
    This book is about the India Festival Vaisakhi, and its importance in India and Indian peopleperfect for kids to know about Indian festivals and their origin ... En savoir plus

    5,20 €

  • Education-at-large: Student Life And Activities In Singapore 1945-1965

    par Siao See Teng, Cheow Thia Chan, Huay Leng Lee ...
    The first part of the book contains documentation of a groundbreaking exhibition held in 2007 on student activities and societal engagements during post-war Singapore 1945-1965 and transcripts of forums held in conjunction with it. The second half centres on oral history accounts of mostly former Chinese school students who shared about their social, cultural and political activities in complex ... En savoir plus

    28,11 €

  • Secularism, Religion, and Democracy in Southeast Asia

    Modifié par Vidhu Verma ...
    Collection series Religion and Democracy: Reconceptualizing Religion, Culture, and Politics in a Global Context
    Until the 1990s, secularism was understood largely as exclusion of religion from the public domain. However, in the last two decades, the world has witnessed the return of religion as a medium and subject of national, regional, and global politics. With such a shift, the previously unquestioned Western values of modernity and secularism find themselves at loggerheads with the increasing assertion ... En savoir plus

    57,77 €

  • 'My' Self on Camera

    First Person Documentary Practice in an Individualising China

    par Kiki Tianqi Yu ...
    Collection series Edinburgh Studies in East Asian Film

    23,06 €

  • 消失的台灣醫界良心

    par 藍博洲 ...
    ★2006年金鼎獎　最佳文學類圖書獎現代人多感慨醫德淪喪，卻鮮少有人知道，在台灣曾經有一群年輕秀異的醫師，以他們的生命和自由為代價，追求人民的福祉與國家美好的未來。但那一代熱血的台灣俊秀，卻在五○年代的政治肅清中家破人亡，這一段狂飆的歷史也在白色恐怖的陰影和富裕生活的饜足心態下，長埋地下，隨時光漸漸湮滅。《消失的台灣醫界良心》希望能為這些抱持理想與熱情的生命留下紀錄，也在被簡化、扭曲的官方歷史之外，提供另一個觀看思考的向度。郭秀琮、蘇友鵬、胡寶珍、許強四人皆為台北帝國大學醫學部（今台大醫學院）畢業的優秀醫生，二次世界大戰束，他們從抗日而熱情迎向台灣的光復、到對陳儀體制的腐敗和獨占憤然抗議、繼之參與一九四七年台灣二月蜂起（二二八事件）、再經蜂起的全面潰敗，他們徬徨、幻滅，掙扎著尋求思想的出路及所謂祖國的圖像，也在當時中國內戰的激盪下，重新找到國家的認同。然而一九五○年，一場全面的、堅定的 ... En savoir plus

    5,89 €

  • Pakistan in an Age of Turbulence

    par Masuma Hasan ...
    A detailed and graphic personal and family history within a national and international context. It mirrors and brings to life the modern and contemporary history of the Indian sub-continent and of India and Pakistan, and the dramatic birth-struggles of both major nation states dominating South Asia. And the complex racial, religious and ethnic mix was central to turbulent politics and Islamic ... En savoir plus

    9,57 €

  • 圖解香港史

    par 周子峰 ...
    探索香港發展軌跡　補白本地歷史盲點介紹從遠古到1949年香港的歷史，囊括了政治、經濟、文化等社會的方方面面。香港學者寫給香港人的歷史普及讀物——遵循歷史時序，梳理從遠古到英佔，直至1949年香港史的主要軌跡。考古發現、政治變遷、經濟發展、本土民俗……掃描香港歷史全景，幫助讀者快速掌握本地歷史概貌。敘述簡明，脈絡清晰，對照生動形象的圖解，輕鬆解構繁雜多變的本土歷史，為通識科的優質讀物。章末附重要人物簡介，以人帶事，呈現了解正史的第三視角。附錄香港大事年表、1949年之前的歷屆港督和延伸閱讀，提供更多相關資訊。 ... En savoir plus

    3,72 €