World History

Tokyo Before Tokyo

Power and Magic in the Shogun’s City of Edo

Timon Screech

“According to Screech, the city is the source of much of what we consider to be Japanese culture: sushi, Mt Fuji, cherry blossoms. Tokyo Before Tokyo is a rich illustrated volume that presents the vibrant visual history of Edo. The book is presented as a series of vignettes, dealing with key landmarks and districts from the old city, from the Shogun’s castle to the famous redlight Yoshiwara district.” —New Books Network

Distributed for Reaktion Books

2020 272 p. 63/4 x 83/4 105 color plates, 5 halftones 63 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-233-4 $40.00

Your Price: $12.00

My First Trip to China

Scholars, Diplomats and Journalists Reflect on their First Encounters with China

Edited by Kin-Ming Liu

“The opening of China to the world, and then of the world to China, is one of modern history’s most consequential stories. That story is told in a fresh, innovative fashion in this insightful collection of personal experiences related by a distinguished collection of historians, diplomats, journalists, political writers, and others who ventured behind the Bamboo Curtain early on.”—Washington Post

“Illuminating. . . . My First Trip to China invites readers to relive those voyages of discovery and to reflect on the complexities of modern-day China, whose new openness, material progress and limited freedoms were unimaginable just a generation ago.”—Wall Street Journal

Distributed for Hong Kong University Press

2012 320 p. 71/8 x 71/8 64 Paper ISBN: 978-988-16046-2-0 $28.00

Your Price: $11.00

The Water Kingdom

A Secret History of China

Philip Ball

“A rewarding read. . . . At its most fascinating when describing how in China the laws of nature seem to have embedded in them a moral precept. . . . Ball puts water beautifully back at the heart of China’s story.”—Economist Travelling in Hong Kong 1907–1909

Translated by Elizabeth Szász, Krisztina Sarkady and Adrian Hart

Poised to learn more about Asia and to experience China firsthand, Hungarian naval doctor Dezso Bozóky traveled to the East during the first decade of the twentieth century, recorded his journey in a hitherto unpublished diary and photographed and self-developed hundreds of images that today present rare visual resources of the former colonial city. This collection of Bozóky’s beautiful black-and-white and hand-colored pictures allows us to retrace their master’s steps and offer insights into the bustling merchant town, culturally mixed society and lush natural landscape that he encountered.

Distributed for HKU Museum and Art Gallery

2016 116 p. 9 x 9 50 hand-colored images 66 Paper ISBN: 978-988-19023-0-6 $21.00

Your Price: $7.00

A Story of Ruins

Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture

Wu Hung

“With admirable clarity and precision, this ambitious book examines a rich topic—the multiple varieties of significance that have been invested in ruins as vehicles of cultural memory in China, from classical times until the present. A Story of Ruins is an original and welcome contribution not only to the study of art in China but art generally.”—Martin Powers, University of Michigan

Distributed for Reaktion Books

2019 296 p. 71/2 x 93/4 131 color plates, 59 halftones 67 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-86189-876-0 $60.00

Your Price: $17.00

A Historical Atlas of Tibet

Karl E. Ryavec

“This may well be the best historical atlas of our time. Combining a hard-won mastery of Tibetan history and geography with an equally impressive command of digital cartography, Ryavec has revealed the contours of Tibet in unprecedented, radiant detail. . . . A must-have for every serious library.” —Kären Wigen, coeditor of Time in Maps

2015 216 p. 81/2 x 11 121 color plates, 36 halftones, 2 tables 68 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-73244-2 $45.00

Your Price: $12.00

Revolution

Structure and Meaning in World History

Saïd Amir Arjomand

“A masterful synthesis of knowledge about revolutions in the ancient and medieval world. Written by one of the world’s leading scholars on the Iranian revolution, this book offers a wealth of insights on revolutions that do not rely on the modern revolutionary myth.”—Hans Joas, Humboldt University of Berlin

Jerry Brotton and Nick Millea

The Bodleian Library’s map collection is a treasure trove of cartographic delights spanning more than a thousand years. This lavishly illustrated book features highlights from the collection together with rare artifacts and some stunning examples from twenty-first-century map-makers. Each map is accompanied by a narrative revealing the story behind its creation and the significance of its design.

Distributed for Bodleian Library Publishing

2019 144 p. 7 x 7 80 color plates 70 Paper ISBN: 978-1-85124-523-9 $20.00

Your Price: $7.00

After the Nobel Prize 1989–1994

The Non-fiction Writing of Naguib Mahfouz, Volume IV

Naguib Mahfouz

Naguib Mahfouz, the Arab world’s only Nobel literature laureate, is best known internationally for his short stories and novels, including The Cairo Trilogy. But in Egypt he was equally familiar to newspaper readers for the column he wrote for many years in the leading daily Al-Ahram, in which he reflected on issues of the day from domestic and international events, politics, and economics to historic anniversaries, inspirational personalities, and questions of cultural freedom. This volume brings together the 285 articles he wrote between January 1989 and October 1994.

“He was not only a Hugo and a Dickens, but also a Galsworthy, a Mann, a Zola, and a Jules Romain.”—London Review of Books

Distributed for Gingko Library

2020 700 p. 6 x 9 71 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-909942-13-4 $40.00

Your Price: $12.00

Palestinian Art

Gannit Ankori

“What’s wonderful about Palestinian Art is that it brings to our attention so many very good artists. . . . We learn that they have so much more on their minds than ‘the conflict.’” —Boston Globe

Distributed for Reaktion Books

2006 256 p. 71/2 x 93/4 143 color plates, 19 halftones 72 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-259-1 $35.00

Your Price: $11.00

The Last Colonial Massacre

Latin America in the Cold War, Updated Edition

Greg Grandin

“Mounting the most powerful case to date against the know-nothing triumphalism of Cold War historians and the smug complacency of the American media, Grandin’s book also performs a modest act of restorative justice: it allows Guatemalans to tell their own stories in their own words. ” —London Review of Books