This entertaining account of the English in India studies the behavior and the customs of the English from the very first connections down to the end of the eighteenth-century. It attempts to trace and account for the various phases of the development of the social life of the English in eighteenth-century India. The author, the late Dr. Percival Spear (1901-1982) taught history at St. Stephen's College, Delhi, and was the author of The Oxford History of Modern India 1740-1975.
Japan Prepares for Total War (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs (Hardcover))
by Associate Professor Michael A Barnhart
Why Sports Morally Matter (Routledge Critical Studies in Sport)
by William Morgan
When we accept that advertisers and sponsors dictate athletic schedules, that success in sport is measured by revenue, that athletes' loyalties lie with their commercial agents instead of teams and that game rules exist to be tested and broken in the pursuit of a win, what does our regard for sport say about the moral and political well-being of our society? Why Sports Morally Matter is a deeply critical examination of pressing ethical issues in sports - and in society as a whole. Exploring the...
The Vietnam War (Make History)
Traffic in Asian Women (Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies)
by Laura Hyun Yi Kang
In Traffic in Asian Women Laura Hyun Yi Kang demonstrates that the figure of "Asian women" functions as an analytic with which to understand the emergence, decline, and permutation of U.S. power/knowledge at the nexus of capitalism, state power, global governance, and knowledge production throughout the twentieth century. Kang analyzes the establishment, suppression, forgetting, and illegibility of the Japanese military "comfort system" (1932-1945) within that broader geohistorical arc. Although...
The Manchus, or The reigning dynasty of China; their rise and progress
by John Ross
Information in English on Japanese World War Two transport aircraft is hard to find, and in this book the story of the Japanese experimental transport designs is told in great detail. The context of each aircraft is explained, with information on the low priority given to transport aircraft and the disastrous implications of that neglect for the Japanese war effort. Fully illustrated with many rare photographs and excellent artwork, the various designs and proposals for transport aircraft during...
Pa Chin and His Writings (Harvard East Asian, #28) (East Asian S.)
by Olga Lang
The Land of the Rising Sun (Classic Reprint)
by Gregoire De Wollant
Ancient Chinese Porcelains, Pottery and Bronzes and Old Japanese Bronzes and Lacquers
During the 1964 election campaign, Lyndon Johnson pledged to limit US involvement in the Vietnam War, and yet within a year America was fully committed to resisting the Vietcong. In this study of Johnson's volte face, Brian Van de Mark considers the pressures placed on the President to choose between his Great Society social proposals and the alienation of America's right wing, a conflict of interests that was enacted before his eyes during a dramatic weekend at Camp David in July 1965.