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  Unlocking the World: Port Cities and Globalization in the Age of Steam, 1830-1930

  From the acclaimed historian of global empire, the dramatic story of how steam power reshaped our cities and our seas, and forged a new world...
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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,...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  Vietnam: Rising Dragon

  An “enlightening and persuasive” (Jonathan Mirsky, New York Review of Books) survey of Vietnam as an emerging Asian power   The eyes...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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