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8vo, 2 volumes hardcover in dj. xiv, 313, 296 pages, folding map. George Forster`s journey from Bengal to England during 1782-84. He travelled from India through Kashmir, Afghanistan, Persia, by the Caspian Sea to Russia, from Petersburg finally he took a ship to England, visiting and describing amongst other the cities of Calcutta, Murshidabad, Patna, Benares, Allahabad Lucknow, Bareilly, Moradabad, Bilaspur, Nurpur, Jummu, Jalalabad, Kabul, Ghazni, Khandhar, Herat, Astrakhan and Moscow. He has also devoted chapters to Hindu Mythology, Brief Histories of Rohillas, Shujah-ud-daulah, and the Sikhs. Printed Pages: 625
HBK with dj, green boards, five pages b/w photographs, b/w figures, book as new - ISBN 0 300 09760 3 In this powerful history of Pakistan from 1947 to the present, Bennett Jones describes the many fault lines in Pakistani society. He assesses the role of the nationalists in the provinces, the feudal landlords in the countryside, and the bureaucratic elite in Islamabad and analyses the complex relationships between religion, regional politics and the armed forces.The combination of political instability, deep-seated economic and social problems, access to nuclear weapons, and the war in neighboring Afghanistan have made Pakistan one of the most strategically sensitive countries in the world. Its military ruler, General Pervez Musharraf, recently re-elected to a second term as President, is at the centre of global attention. He is the first Pakistani leader in thirty years to dare to confront the country's Islamic extremists. But will he succeed in controlling the forces that helped create the Taliban in Afghanistan and fuelled the bitter conflict in Kashmir? Will his army and intelligence agencies be able to tame the radical elements that they created and sustained?As a BBC correspondent in Pakistan between 1998 and 2001, Bennett Jones witnessed first hand many of the events that brought General Musharraf to power. This book contains the first detailed accounts of the 1999 coup, the Kargil conflict and how Pakistan came to test its nuclear bomb. It will be essential reading for anyone who wants to understand a country that was crucial to the expulsion of Soviet forces from Afghanistan in the 1980s and which, after the 11 September 2001 attack, became a key coalition partner in America's was against terrorism.328 pages
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and numerous wood-engraved decorations in the text; green cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The frontispiece is a fine self-portrait.
8vo, hardcover in dj. 253pp. From Spanish conquistadors to British colonialists, the prevailing story of European empire-building has focused on the rival ambitions of competing states. But as Outsourcing Empire shows, from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, company-states?not sovereign states?drove European expansion, building the world?s first genuinely international system. Company-states were hybrid ventures: pioneering multinational trading firms run for profit, with founding charters that granted them sovereign powers of war, peace, and rule. Those like the English and Dutch East India Companies carved out corporate empires in Asia, while other company-states pushed forward European expansion through North America, Africa, and the South Pacific. In this comparative exploration, Andrew Phillips and J. C. Sharman explain the rise and fall of company-states, why some succeeded while others failed, and their role as vanguards of capitalism and imperialism. In dealing with alien civilizations to the East and West, Europeans relied primarily on company-states to mediate geographic and cultural distances in trade and diplomacy. Emerging as improvised solutions to bridge the gap between European rulers? expansive geopolitical ambitions and their scarce means, company-states succeeded best where they could balance the twin imperatives of power and profit. Yet as European states strengthened from the late eighteenth century onward, and a sense of separate public and private spheres grew, the company-states lost their usefulness and legitimacy. Bringing a fresh understanding to the ways cross-cultural relations were handled across the oceans, Outsourcing Empire examines the significance of company-states as key progenitors of the globalized world.
Amiot-Dumont. 1954. In-8 Carré. Broché, Jaquette. Bon état. Couv. convenable. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur bon état. 228 pages. Illustré de nombreuses photos en noir et blanc (héliogravées) hors texte. Jaquette d'origine illustrée en noir et blanc, légèrement passée. Etiquette annotée sur le dos. Tampons et annotation en page de titre. 'Bibliothèque des voyages'. Préface d'A. David-Neel.
1st Edition. 263 pages, B & W photos, maps. Roberts served for forty-one years in India.
8vo, br. d. 600pp. Sotto il vessillo della Guerra santa, grazie alla guida di Berlino e alla longa manus di Costantinopoli, tedeschi e turchi diedero il via nel 1914, mentre la Prima guerra mondiale si preparava a devastare il Vecchio continente, al tentativo di scatenare la rivoluzione nell’India britannica e nell’Asia centrale russa, nonché di rafforzarsi in Medio Oriente. Si trattava di una nuova e più ampia versione dell’antico «Grande Gioco», con il dominio del mondo come obiettivo finale. Raccontato con epici dettagli, Servizi segreti a oriente di Costantinopoli è il resoconto delle imprese, dei complotti, dei fallimenti e dei successi delle spie, dei cospiratori, dei diplomatici e degli avventurieri che vi presero parte nei due opposti schieramenti, in un susseguirsi di eroismi, tradimenti e sacrifici. Un’opera che getta nuova luce sulle ambigue trame delle grandi potenze in questa regione instabile del mondo in cui il «Grande Gioco» non è mai finito.
Paris, Payot, Bibliothèque Géographique, 1930. Grand in-8, broché, 426 pp plus table des cartes. Ouvrage illustré de 23 cartes en noir et d'une carte en couleurs (rempliées). Bel exemplaire.
Very Good French Paperback. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In French. 389 p., b/w ills. Cr. 8vo. 17 plts. and 1 b/w folding map about Central Asia. Les Etrusques etaient des Turcs (preuves).
Chez l'auteur. 1917. In-8 Carré. Broché. Bon état. Couv. convenable. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur frais. Plaquette de 16 pages illustrée d'une carte en noir et blanc dépliable. Annotations sur le 1er plat et en page de titre. 'Aux enfants de France. Ces quelqus lignes sont destinées à vous faire connaître le peuple malheureux pour qui la France fut toujours la protectrice loitaine et bien-aimée (...)'
NAGEL. VERS 1968. In-8 Carré. Relié, Jaquette. Bon état. Couv. convenable. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur frais. 258 pages augmentées de nombreuses photos en noir et blanc et e ncouleur dans et hors texte. Jaquette en bon etat. + 1 mini catalogue de NAGEL.
FOT.. Non daté. In-8 Carré. Broché. Etat d'usage. Couv. légèrement passée. Dos frotté. Intérieur acceptable. 129 pages. Nombreuses photos en noir et blanc et en couleurs dans le texte et hors texte. Envoi de l'auteur ( ? ) . Etiquette de classement sur le dos de l'ouvrage.
Xaveriana. 1937. In-16 Carré. Broché. Etat d'usage. 1er plat abîmé. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur frais. Plaquette de 36 pages. Tampon et annotations de bibliothèque sur le 1er plat. Xaveriana n° 157. Monseigneur Hamer. Mongolie centrale. Pire que la mort...
205 + [3] pp., softcover, 22cm., text in Russian in Cyrillic script, Good condition, OCLC 299899463, X77534
8vo. With material on the Siege of Lucknow, the Umbeyla Expedition, and the Kabul-Kandahar Field Force. Illustrated with B/W photo plates, frontisportrait and advertisements. 237p. good e copy in the original dulled and edge rubbed blue cloth. Title gilt. fep with probable prev. owner's signature clipped at one corner.
xiii + 529pp.with ills., 24cm., reprint of the 1939-edition, cloth, G, X71572
pbk, pp. 160, vg.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, double-page map and pictorial endpapers; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Reginald Teague-Jones took the name 'Ronald Sinclair' to avoid retribution from the Soviets following the massacre of the Baku Commissars. He lived under this alias for seventy years, his true identity being revealed only after his death in 1988 at the age of 99.This dramatic account is based on his secret diary. ALREADY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo grande, tela fregi oro cm.15,5x24,; pp.612,; leg.ed.in t.tela rossa ,titoli e fregi in oro al dorso.; Coll.Classici delle Religioni.Le religioni orientali
Genève, Editions d'Art Albert Skira, sixième volume de la Collection "Les trésors de l'Asie", 1963 ; petit in-4, pleine toile de l'éditeur, jaquette illustrée en couleurs conservée, étui, 135 pp. Illustrations en couleurs, dans et hors-textes. Planches contrecollées. Bel exemplaire.
Paris, Librairie Hachette, Bibliothèque rose illustrée, 1867. In-12, pleine percaline rouge de l'éditeur, trois tranches dorées, 263 pp. Vignettes et carte rempliée du Turkestan en fin d'ouvrage. Bel exemplaire.
169 + [2] pp., softcover, 22cm., text in Russian in Cyrillic script, Edition of only 1500 copies, Good condition, rare, OCLC 649253431, X77535
As New As New English Original bdg with original dust wrapper. Mint. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. 1392 p. Very heavy volume. A comprehensive and full text translation of Dede Korkut Book. Dedem Korkudun kitabi.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured plates and maps; original Society binding of blue cloth, upper boards framed in blind enclosing sailing vessel blocked in gilt, gilt backs, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Hakluyt Society, Second Series, No. 189.
Slight wear to DJ; Profusely illustrated look at the major city in Nepal ; Color Photographs; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 197 pages