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Central Asia in World History by Golden Peter B
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Golden, Peter B.

CHAPTER SEVEN The Later Chinggisids, Temür, and the Timurid Renaissance In the fragmenting Chinggisid world, Mongols were a privileged minority, one increasingly assimilated by their subjects. As al-’Umarî, an Arab ...
( Category: Asia August 18,2018 )
Bên Thắng Cuộc II - Quyền Bính by Huy Đức
azw3 |eng | 2013-01-17 | Author:Huy Đức

( Category: Asia August 18,2018 )
Bên Thắng Cuộc I - Giải Phóng by Huy Đức
azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Huy Đức

( Category: Asia August 18,2018 )
Daoism and Anarchism by Rapp John A.;
epub |eng | 2012-08-13 | Author:Rapp, John A.;

Notes 1For example, see Kalpana Misra, From Post-Maoism to Post-Marxism: The Erosion of Official Ideology in Deng’s China, passim. 2For the most prominent and recent versions of this view, see ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 14,2018 )
Phase Line Green by Nicholas Warr
epub |eng | | Author:Nicholas Warr [Warr, Nicholas]

Chapter Ten Coping with Disaster: A Dead Dog Day Afternoon 14 February 1968 Early the following morning, Scott Nelson visited the Charlie One CP group, or rather what was left ...
( Category: Military August 13,2018 )
The Indus Civilization by Gregory L. Possehl
epub |eng | 2013-06-24 | Author:Gregory L. Possehl [Possehl, Gregory L.]

The Need to Study the Writing System in Its Various Contexts Fairservis has been the most convincing voice for studying the Indus script within the context of the Indus Civilization. ...
( Category: Archaeology August 13,2018 )
Toraja: Misadventures of an Anthropologist in Sulawesi, Indonesia by Barley Nigel
epub |eng | | Author:Barley, Nigel

Mountain Barnstormers An early morning mist still hung about the valleys, lurking among the trees and undergrowth. Although it was barely light, one of the great tidal waves of schoolchildren ...
( Category: Asia August 12,2018 )
Ho Chi Minh: A Life by Duiker William J
azw3 |eng | 2012-11-12 | Author:Duiker, William J. [Duiker, William J.]

Armed with the imprimatur of a new coalition government, Ho Chi Minh resumed his negotations with Sainteny in the first weeks of 1946. At first, it appeared that the gap ...
( Category: Military August 11,2018 )
1 Mao's War Against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China by Judith Shapiro
epub |eng | 2015-05-28 | Author:Judith Shapiro [Shapiro, Judith]

According to an elderly former worker interviewed in Haigeng Park, a military officer surnamed Liang ordered local people to encircle a bay between Chengong and Kunyang counties to try to ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology August 11,2018 )
The Dalai Lama and the Emperor of China: A Political History of the Tibetan Institution of Reincarnation by Peter Schwieger
epub | | 2015-04-13 | Author:Peter Schwieger [Schwieger, Peter]

FIGURE 5.1 Document issued by amban Wenbi and assistant amban Yangchun (1810) KDL 2035 The confiscation of a rich monastery once granted to a regent was not all that uncommon ...
( Category: World August 11,2018 )
Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong by Mathews Gordon
epub |eng | 2011-06-01 | Author:Mathews, Gordon [Mathews, Gordon]

The Generation Gap among Traders All the traders in Chungking Mansions are more or less wealthy by the standards of their home countries, if not of Hong Kong. This is ...
( Category: Sociology August 11,2018 )
Pearl Harbor by Gordon W. Prange
epub |eng | | Author:Gordon W. Prange

PART III FIELD COMMANDERS AND OPERATORS CHAPTER 20 “A Sentinel on Duty” Nature of command responsibility—Short’s background—Appointment to Hawaii and briefings—Opinions of fellow officers—His staff—Methods of operating—His chief of staff—Short’s ...
( Category: Military August 11,2018 )
Setting the East Ablaze by Hopkirk Peter
epub |eng | 2012-02-16 | Author:Hopkirk, Peter [Hopkirk, Peter]

9 The Bloody Baron While Roy was planning the downfall of the British in India, elsewhere in Asia agents of the Comintern were already busy spreading the heady new revolutionary ...
( Category: Asia August 11,2018 )
Why Did They Kill? by Hinton Alexander Laban;
epub |eng | 2005-08-10 | Author:Hinton, Alexander Laban;

When the Khmer Rouge took Kompong Som, a port city on the southwest coast of Cambodia, Ung Pech and many other people were happy because they thought the country would ...
( Category: Anthropology August 11,2018 )
The Vietnam War by Lawrence Mark Atwood
epub |eng | 2008-08-10 | Author:Lawrence, Mark Atwood

U.S. helicopters ferry American and South Vietnamese soldiers into action during a search-and-destroy mission southwest of Saigon in August 1967. (AP Images/Dang Van Phuoc) These conditions took a heavy physical ...
( Category: Asia August 11,2018 )

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