Asian history

This pioneering book is the first English volume on Korean memories.

Since 1954, Japan has become home to a vibrant but little-known tradition of Black Studies.

This book is a critical study of the development of a racialised nationalism in China, exploring its unique characteristics and internal tensions, and connecting it to other forms of global racism.

This book analyzes the dynamic political economy of authoritarian institutions in China and attempts to answer the following questions: What is the significance of China's authoritarian institutions and the changes Xi Jinping has brought to them?

This book examines the creation and operation of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), which is a hybrid domestic/international tribunal tasked with putting senior leaders of the Khmer Rouge on trial.

Japan has a rich history of human spaceflight, flying in space with both NASA and the Soviet/Russian space agencies over the years.

This volume explores how scholars wrote, preserved, circulated, and read knowledge in ancient Mesopotamia.

This volume explores how scholars wrote, preserved, circulated, and read knowledge in ancient Mesopotamia.

Given the near-silence in technological and business history about post-World War II socialist enterprises, this book gives voice to a generation of Communist China's managers, entrepreneurs, cadres, and workers from the Liberation to the early 1970s.

First we mapped the heavens, then we started mapping the land.

Religion as Securitization in Central and Eastern Europe examines the significance of securitization theory as a reference point in understanding current religious, socio-cultural, and political processes in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).

Japan has a rich history of human spaceflight, flying in space with both NASA and the Soviet/Russian space agencies over the years.

Plaine et hautes terres, lacs, fleuves et forets, la nature impose au Cambodge cette distinction.

Decouvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur le bouddhisme en moins d'une heure !

This book studies how contemporary clerics engage with the historically first and currently most populated Islamic nation-state: Pakistan.

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