Asian history

In his latest book, Patrick Brantlinger probes the state of contemporary America.

In late imperial China, opera transmitted ideas across the social hierarchy about the self, family, society, and politics.

From 1885-1924, China underwent a period of acute political struggle and cultural change, brought on by a radical change in thought: after over 2,000 years of monarchical rule, the Chinese people stopped believing in the emperor.

A study of the politics of rice in Canton, this book sheds new light on the local history of the city and illuminates how China's struggles with food shortages in the early twentieth century unfolded and the ways in which they were affected by the rise of nationalism and the fluctuation of global commerce.

American Evangelicals have long considered Africa a welcoming place for joining faith with social action, but their work overseas is often ambivalently received.

In this long-awaited ethnography, Chuan-kang Shih details the traditional social and cultural conditions of the Moso, a matrilineal group living on the border of Yunnan and Sichuan Provinces in southwest China.

Presenting a fresh examination of women writers and prewar ideology, this book breaks new ground in its investigation of love as a critical aspect of Japanese culture during the early to mid-twentieth century.

Although Sumatra is the sixth largest island in the world and home to an estimated 44 million Indonesians, its musical arts and cultures have not been the subject of a book-length study until now.

Paths to Peace begins by developing a theory about the domestic obstacles to making peace and the role played by shifts in states' governing coalitions in overcoming these obstacles.

In a world dominated by considerations of material and security threats, Japan provides a fascinating case for why, and under what conditions, a state would choose to adopt international norms and laws that are seemingly in direct conflict with its domestic norms.

Contentious Spirits explores the role of religion in Korean American history during the first half of the twentieth century in Hawai'i and California.

In July 1941, the Soviet Union was in mortal danger.

In the towering mountains of northern India, a chilling chapter was written in the history of international espionage.

For most Americans, Cambodia was a sideshow to the war in Vietnam, but by the time of the Vietnam invasion of Democratic Kampuchea in 1978 and the subsequent war, it had finally moved to center stage.

Introduces the Muslim prayer including its actions and its Divine origins through Prophets Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad.

In the United States, December 7, 1941, may live in infamy, in President Franklin D.

Defiance against Chinese oppression has been a defining characteristic of Tibetan life for more than four decades, symbolized most visibly by the much revered Dalai Lama.

Original oral and ethnographic sources inform this conceptual history of power in central Africa, imagined through the lens of Kitawala religious practices.

Original oral and ethnographic sources inform this conceptual history of power in central Africa, imagined through the lens of Kitawala religious practices.

The 1950s and 1960s were a key moment in the development of postwar France.

America's independent films often seem to defy classification.

Although conventionally treated as separate, Americas four wars in Asia were actually phases in a sustained U.

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt von Mohenjo-daro, einer der größten archäologischen Entdeckungen des 20.

China's explosive transformation from a planned economy to a more market-oriented one over the past three decades owes much to the charismatic reformer Zhu Rongji.

Managing Indonesia's Transformation: An Oral History is an account of Ginandjar Kartasasmita's career in the Indonesian government, both under President Suharto and in the post-Suharto era.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;Kim (Adventure Classic) - Illustrated"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

The Vietnam War was different from most previous U.

Translated in full for the first time, this first volumeimmerses readers in the power and drama of the electrifying classic Chinese novel.

This scarce antiquarian book is a reprint of the original.

Organized by theme, this comprehensive encyclopedia examines all aspects of life in Japan, from geography and government to food and etiquette and much more.

In June 1967 Israel, which seemed on the verge of being annihilated by its Arab neighbors, took six days to redraw the Middle Eastern strategic map in one of the most dramatic reversals of fortune in modern times.

First published in 1980, Quakers in India is an account of the Quaker encounter with India from the day the first Quaker-owned ship sailed from Liverpool for Calcutta in 1815, until more than a century later.

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This book uses detailed, straightforward language and high-resolution color, step-by-step photos to ensure readers can understand and apply everything they need to know about growing mushrooms.

The 16th and 17th century raids of the Tatars of the Northern Black Sea take an important place in the historical consciousness of the Eastern European societies that were affected by it.

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt der Samurai mit "Die große Zeit der Samurai - Der lange Weg des Kriegers vom alten Japan in die Moderne".

Nong Nor is a prehistoric coastal site located in the Chonburi Province, Southeast Asia.

The book addresses for the first time the dynamics associated with the modernization of mathematics in China from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century from a transcultural global historical perspective.

A new narrative and analytic history of the twenty U.

"e;The book describes what a fully loaded Huey was comprised of, the role of each of the four crew members, and most of Greene's missions.

Dieses eBook: "Homo sum (Historischer Roman)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Kolonialismus ohne Kolonien" verfügbar.

This book provides a critical feminist analysis of the Korean Protestant Right's gendered politics.

Wang Fuzhi (1619-1692), a Ming loyalist, was forced to find solutions for both cultural and political crises of his time.

In an era dominated by male rulers, one woman's extraordinary rise to power left an indelible mark on Chinese history.

The shift to the modern world in East Asia was accomplished in part via the experience of colonial rule in the late nineteenth century.

This book is the first to trace the unique monetary history of the Indian Ocean World.

Sixty years since the tripartite aggression of France, Great Britain and Israel against Egypt, this is the first account about Egyptian military operations during the Suez War of 1956 (or ‘Suez Crisis’, as it is known in the West).