Global Cities: How the World Really Lives is the acclaimed narrative nonfiction series that dives deep into the soul of one city per volume – blending history, humor, sensory storytelling, and socia……続きを見る
Global Cities: How the World Really Lives is a radically entertaining series of literary city portraits – each one part cultural deep dive, part urban field guide, and part love letter to the human ……続きを見る
著者:Eric Jones
出版社: Cornell University Press
発売日: 2011年12月15日
Wives, Slaves, and Concubines argues that Dutch colonial practices and law created a new set of social and economic divisions in Batavia-Jakarta, modern-day Indonesia, to deal with difficult realiti……続きを見る
著者:Gregg Jones
出版社: Grand Central Publishing
発売日: 2025年05月01日
**“Well-written and superbly researched. . . . Much of this engrossing book is devoted to individual Marines and their actions amid horrific combat.” ー**The Dallas Morning News
In a remote mountain……続きを見る
Hong Kong is the most European city in Asia. It was not only built by British rule and the energy and entrepreneurship of Chinese but also by people from continental Europe, The citizens of Germany,……続きを見る
The British Army’s report on the Japanese invasion of Burma during WWIIーbased on firsthand accounts by the officers who survived it.
In 1942, the Japanese military drove British and Indian forces o……続きを見る
A major revision of our understanding of JFK’s commitment to Vietnam, revealing that his administration’s plan to withdraw was a political device, the effect of which was to manage public opinion wh……続きを見る
Colonel John Biddulph (25 July 1840 – 24 December 1921) was a British soldier, author and naturalist who served in the government of British India.
He was educated at Westminster School, and at t……続きを見る
著者:Howard Jones
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2017年06月22日
When John F. Kennedy was shot, millions were left to wonder how America, and the world, would have been different had he lived to fulfill the enormous promise of his presidency. For many historians ……続きを見る
POLITICIAN • PRISONER • PARENT
A portrait of one of the most charismatic, but unknown, world leaders
Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and crusader for democracy
in Myanmar, is once again……続きを見る
From Comfort Woman:
“We began the day with breakfast, after which we swept and cleaned our rooms. Then we went to the bathroom downstairs to wash the only dress we had and to bathe. The bathroom did……続きを見る
More than forty years have passed since the official end of the Vietnam War, yet the war’s legacies endure. Its history and iconography still provide fodder for film and fiction, communities of war ……続きを見る
The Pirates Of Malabar, And An Englishwoman In India Two Hundred Years Ago by John Biddulph or Colonel John Biddulph.He was the British soldier,author and naturalist who served in the government of ……続きを見る
著者:Howard Jones
出版社: Oxford University Press, USA
発売日: 2012年06月07日
When John F. Kennedy was shot, millions were left to wonder how America, and the world, would have been different had he lived to fulfill the enormous promise of his presidency. For many historians ……続きを見る
In the spring of 1954, after eight years of bitter fighting, the war in Vietnam between the French and the communist-led Vietminh came to a head. With French forces reeling, the United States planne……続きを見る
With over 500 full-color photographs and expert insights provided by leading archaeological authorities, Burmese Design & Architecture is a must-have for serious connoisseurs of architecture, design……続きを見る
著者:Richard Stoneman
出版社: Princeton University Press
発売日: 2019年02月05日
An exploration of how the Greeks reacted to and interacted with India from the third to first centuries BCE
When the Greeks and Macedonians in Alexander’s army reached India in 326 BCE, they entered……続きを見る
Prominent scholars across the political divide and academic disciplines analyze how the dominant political parties in Malaysia and Singapore, United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) and the Peopl……続きを見る
Now in its 7th edition, Vietnam: An American Ordeal continues to provide a thorough account of the failed American effort to create a viable, non-Communist state in Southern Vietnam.
Unlike most gen……続きを見る