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This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world from 1400 to the present.

The Mahabharata, one of the major epics of India, is a sourcebook complete by itself as well as an open text constantly under construction.

A thoroughly researched assessment of how China's economic success continues to be shaped by the communist ideology of Chairman Mao It was long assumed that as China embraced open markets and private enterprise, its state-controlled economy would fall by the wayside, that free markets would inevitably lead to a more liberal society.

This book deals with the genesis, outbreak and far-reaching effects of a legal controversy and the resulting outbreak of mass violence, which determined the course of British colonial rule after post World War Two in Singapore and Malaya.

This book examines the key political and military events in Afghanistan from 1978 to August 2021.

During the Vietnam War, the Viet Cong (VC) main forces and North Vietnamese Army (NVA) were forced to hide weapons and supplies underground and to dig protective shelters to counter massive US firepower.

Precious metals played a key role in inter-continental trade between Europe and Asia in the early modern period.

Providing historical insights essential to the understanding of contemporary China, this text presents a nation's story of trauma and growth during the early twentieth century.

This volume evaluates the dual roles of war and modernity in the transformation of twentieth-century Chinese identity.

A gripping account of the final period of the war in the Asia Pacific during WWII.

Winner of the Thomas Cook Travel Book AwardFor the Chinese, the Great Wall of China has defined much more than a physical barrier.

The Limits of Alignment is an engaging and accessible study that explores how small states and middle powers of Southeast Asia ensure their security in a world where they are overshadowed by greater powers.

Colonialism in China was a piecemeal agglomeration that achieved its greatest extent in the first half of the twentieth century, the last edifices falling at the close of the century.

The Caucasus is a strategically and economically important region in contemporary global affairs.

Even as China is central to the contemporary global economy, its socialist past continues to shape its capitalist present.

In the mid-nineteenth century, Cuba's infamous "e;coolie"e; trade brought well over 100,000 Chinese indentured laborers to its shores.

First published in 1932 Land and Labour in China is an introductory volume dealing with certain aspects of economic life in China.

Encyclopaedia lndica is a monumental work by reputed authors which highlights all aspects of lndian History and Culture in the light of modern knowledge in its pristine vigour.

From 1935 to 1945, the Japan Romantic School (Nihon Romanha), a group of major intellectuals and literary figures, explored issues concerning politics, literature, and nationalism in ways that still influence cultural discourse in Japan today.

At present, a nativist turn in Indian political theory can be observed.

THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARFINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019A FINANCIAL TIMES, OBSERVER, DAILY TELEGRAPH, WALL STREET JOURNAL AND TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'Dalrymple is a superb historian with a visceral understanding of India A book of beauty' Gerard DeGroot, The TimesIn August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish a new administration in his richest provinces.

A comprehensive survey of Chinese economic history from 1800 to the present from an international team of leading experts.

Devotional Sovereignty: Kingship and Religion in India investigates the shifting conceptualization of sovereignty in the South Indian kingdom of Mysore during the reigns of Tipu Sultan (r.

When United Nations sponsored elections were held in 1993, there were high hopes that Cambodia would finally be able to escape the nightmare of war, the killing fields, famine, and economic turmoil that its people had endured since 1970.

The indistinct status of the Zainichi has meant that, since the late 1940s, two ethnic Korean associations, the Chongryun (pro-North) and the Mindan (pro-South) have been vying for political loyalty from the Zainichi, with both groups initially opposing their assimilation in Japan.

Of Colonial Bungalows and Piano Lessons can be read as a metaphor - as an icon - of the encounter between cultures.

The South Asian Diaspora numbers just under 30 million people worldwide, and it is recognized as the most widely dispersed diaspora.

The sixty years between 1773 and 1833 determined British paramountcy in India.

Throughout the past three decades East Asia has seen more peace and stability than at any time since the Opium Wars of 1839-1841.

This study examines how the concept of "e;Korean woman"e; underwent a radical transformation in Korea's public discourse during the years of Japanese colonialism.

Tensions over the "e;Tibet Question"e;-the political status of Tibet-are escalating every day.

The theme covers the period of the eminent Mughal Emperors who succeeded Akbar the Great after 1605.

In the early 2000s, the central government of China encouraged all of the nation's registered minorities to "e;salvage, sort, synthesize, and elevate"e; folk medical knowledges in an effort to create local health care systems comparable to the nationally supported institutions of traditional Chinese medicine.

One of the first philosophical approaches to the study of Korea's ethnic nationalism, Christianity, the Sovereign Subject, and Ethnic Nationalism in Colonial Korea traces the impact of Christianity in the formation of Korean national identity, outlining the metaphysical origins of the concept of the sovereign subject.

This book provides an answer to the mystery of why no peace treaty has yet been signed between Japan and Russia after more than sixty years since the end of World War Two.

The Mutiny of 1857, which began with a revolt of the military soldiers at Meerut, soon became widespread and posed a grave challenge to the British rule.

Using original primary sources, this book uncovers and analyzes for the first time the politics of fertility and the battle over birth control in South Africa from 1910 (the year the country was formed) to 1945.

Punk rock has long been equated with the ever-shifting concepts of dissent, disruption, and counter-cultural activities.

President Barack Obama's mother, S.

An innovative exploration of how colonial interventions in Afghanistan have been made possible through representations of the country as ''backward''.

The Historical Dictionary of the Mongol World Empire examines the history of the Mongol Empire, the pre-imperial era of Mongolian history that preceded it, and the various Mongol successor states that continued to dominate Eurasia long after the breakdown of Mongol unity.

In this probing and original study, Parks M.

Over the past quarter century new ideologies of participation and representation have proliferated across democratic and non-democratic regimes.

This interdisciplinary volume represents the first comprehensive English-language analysis of the development of Protestant Christianity in Xiamen from the nineteenth century to the present.

Are Eastern Orthodoxy and evangelicalism at all compatible?

Bangladesh is the world's eighth most populous country.