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Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Opium Queen is the true story of the widely mythologized genderqueer Burmese opium-pioneer of noble Chinese descent, Olive Yang, who secretly ran an anti-communist rebel army supported by the CIA in the 1950s heyday of the Golden Triangle"--
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A harrowing history of the conflicts that swept Asia during the decade following World War II-and determined the fate of the continent. The end of World War II led to the United States' emergence as a global superpower. For war-ravaged Western Europe it marked the beginning of decades of unprecedented cooperation and prosperity that one historian has labeled "the long peace." Yet half a world away, in China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Korea, and Malaya-the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stryker-Post Publications, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
An annually updated presentation of East & Southeast Asia past and present, providing introductory regional and comparative chapters followed by distinct sections on each country in the region. --Adapted from publisher description
Author
Series
Publisher
Rourke Educational Media, a division of Carson Dellosa Education
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
What do kites, writing, gunpowder, and the number zero have in common? They all have histories in Asia, the world's largest continent. Discover the great minds and finds of ancient and modern Asia in this learning adventure."--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This history of money describes the gold standard, which began in 16th century Spain's quest to collect as much gold as possible through the introduction of paper money as a means of wartime financing during the French and American Revolutions.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A reassessment of World War II's legacy evaluates the unique challenges of reconstructing an entire continent of Holocaust survivors and starving refugees, in an account that draws on memoirs, essays, and oral histories to discuss lesser-known aspects of the massive postwar relief efforts.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Draws on the author's own parallel journey and new evidence to retraces the steps of the medieval Italian merchant who traveled from Venice, through the Middle East and Central Asia, to China and Xanadu, the summer capital of Kublai Khan.
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