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Unmaking the East India Company British Art and Political Reform in Colonial India, c. 1813-1858
Illuminates how new modes of artistic production in colonial India shaped the British state’s nationalisation of the East India Company,...RM288.00 -
Unseen Burma: Early Photography 1862–1962
A rare and stunning photographic record of a bygone era from the personal collection of Thai scholar Thweep Rittinaphakorn (Ake) Unseen Burma...RM215.00 -
Unseen Siam: Early Photography, 1860 – 1910
Researched from diverse and extensive source materials (including directories, city archives, field notes, postcards etc), Unseen Siam reveals the...RM299.90 -
Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change
From 'the master storyteller of the human race' (Daily Mail), a brilliant new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others...RM90.00 -
Uttara: The Book of Answers
Of the seven books that comprise the Valmiki Ramayana, the Uttara Kanda is the final and perhaps the most problematic: Rama banishes his...RM77.00 -
Valmiki’s Uttara Kanda: The Book of Answers
The last and most intriguing book of the Ramayana, the Uttara Kanda is rendered here by noted Sanskrit scholar Arshia Sattar in vivid, sensuous...RM143.50 -
Van Gogh and Japan
“All my work is based to some extent on Japanese art” –Vincent van Gogh Vincent van Gogh’s (1853–1890) encounter with Japanese ukiyo-e...RM193.50 -
Van Gogh and Music: A Symphony in Blue and Yellow
“Ah! to make of painting what the music of Berlioz and Wagner has been before us a consolatory art for distressed hearts!”—Vincent van...RM149.90 -
Venice Illuminated: Power and Painting in Renaissance Manuscripts
For patricians in the Republic of Venice, paintings in manuscripts marking their appointment to high office expressed a tension between selfless...RM120.00 -
Verandah of Violence: The Background to the Aceh Problem
In Indonesia's westernmost province of Aceh, the democratisation process that began in Indonesia in 1998 encouraged the overt expression of...RM75.00 -
Victorious Wives: The Disguised Heroine In 19th-Century Malay Syair
In 'Victorious Wives,' Mulaika Hijjas uses tools drawn from literary criticism and gender studies to look at a previously neglected corpus of Malay...RM89.50 -
Vietnam: Rising Dragon
An “enlightening and persuasive” (Jonathan Mirsky, New York Review of Books) survey of Vietnam as an emerging Asian power The eyes...RM80.00 -
Vietnamese Traditional Medicine: A Social History
While reshaping our understanding of the history and development of traditional Vietnamese medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries, Michele...RM85.00 -
Views from Pulau Pinang: Countering Modern Orientation and Policy Perspectives
Views from Pulau Pinang brings together the writings of members of the Centre for Policy Research and International Studies (CenPRIS), Universiti...RM25.00 -
Village China at War: The Impact of Resistance to Japan, 1937-1945
This groundbreaking study on the forging of Chinese communism in the furnace of the anti-Japanese war focuses on North China, where the CCP first...RM135.00 -
Violence Against an Ethnic Minority in Malaysia: Kampung Medan, 2001
This is the first publication on the racial violence that was unleashed by organized thugs against ethnic Indians at Kampung Medan, Petaling Jaya...RM24.00 -
Violence and Belonging: Land, Love and Lethal Conflict in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan
Most studies of violence in the Middle East and South Asia come from the perspective of honour or political violence By contrast, this important...RM160.00 -
Violence and Warfare among Hunter-Gatherers
How did warfare originate Was it human genetics Social competition The rise of complexity Intensive study of the long-term hunter-gatherer past...RM170.30