Asian history

Bertrandon de la Broquiere was esquire to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy.

Bertrandon de la Broquiere was esquire to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy.

Waziristan, a region on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, has in recent years become a flash point in the so-called 'War on Terror'.

Waziristan, a region on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, has in recent years become a flash point in the so-called 'War on Terror'.

Jahangir was the fourth of the six “Great Mughals,” the oldest son of Akbar the Great, who extended the Mughal Empire across the Indian Subcontinent, and the father of Shah Jahan, builder of the Taj Mahal.

Jahangir was the fourth of the six “Great Mughals,” the oldest son of Akbar the Great, who extended the Mughal Empire across the Indian Subcontinent, and the father of Shah Jahan, builder of the Taj Mahal.

Dhirendra Jha's deeply researched history places Nathuram Godse's life as the juncture of the dangerous fault lines in contemporary India: the quest for independence and the rise of Hindu nationalism.

This volume of wide-ranging essays by sport historians and sociologists examines the complex relations of war, peace and sport through a series of case studies from South and North America, Europe, North Africa, Asia and New Zealand.

Lying at the heart of the modern Action Cinema Canon is the concept of transformation.

Lying at the heart of the modern Action Cinema Canon is the concept of transformation.

The noughties witnessed rapid change in Action Cinema, carrying with it the new action stars of the previous decade, and the boundary blurring experimentation of films such as The Matrix, that incorporated not only action but science fiction.

The noughties witnessed rapid change in Action Cinema, carrying with it the new action stars of the previous decade, and the boundary blurring experimentation of films such as The Matrix, that incorporated not only action but science fiction.

For every hero, there is a villain, and for every villain there is a story.

For every hero, there is a villain, and for every villain there is a story.

Sylvester Stallone's action thriller, First Blood, hit cinema screens in 1982, leading to the cementing of what can be called the Action Movie Canon.

Sylvester Stallone's action thriller, First Blood, hit cinema screens in 1982, leading to the cementing of what can be called the Action Movie Canon.

Hirohito: The Trial of the Emperor is a book of information and training, a reference book that should be read as an educational tool on Japan's war in Southeast Asia and the Pacific.

Le Proces de l'Empereur : Hirohito : Coupable ou Innocent est un ouvrage d'information et de formation, un livre de reference qui doit etre lu comme un outil educatif sur la guerre menee par le Japon dans le Sud-Est asiatique et dans le Pacifique.

Cultures of Modernity and the U.

This monograph provides an analysis and contextualization of an extraordinarily successful book, the History of the Great Kingdom of China (Rome 1585), by the Spanish Augustinian friar Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza (1545-1618).

This edited collection provides an in-depth analysis of the imperial, colonial, and postcolonial history of tobacco from 1780 to 1960, which was one of the major periods of change in the global tobacco economy.

This edited collection provides an in-depth analysis of the imperial, colonial, and postcolonial history of tobacco from 1780 to 1960, which was one of the major periods of change in the global tobacco economy.

Throughout history and across cultures, the spy chief has been a leader of the state security apparatus and an essential adviser to heads of state.

Arthwyr ap Meurig, der wahre König Arthur, im Schatten der Normannen & Franken, ist meine deutsche Übersetzung der historischen Bücher von Wilson & Blackett.

Unfinished Nation traces the evolution of Indonesia from its anti-colonial stirrings in the early twentieth century to the lengthy, and eventually victorious, struggle against the dictatorship of President Suharto.

In order to render the strange logic of dreams, Freud quoted the old joke about the borrowed kettle: (1) I never borrowed a kettle from you, (2) I returned it to you unbroken, (3) the kettle was already broken when I got it from you.

In 1271 Marco Polo set out on a journey to China to meet the Mongol Emperor Kublai Khan.

For millennia, the silk roads have been the arteries of international trade.

This book brings together multiple strands of debate around the cultural creative industries and contemporary capitalism, China's position in global capitalism, the future of modernity and new ways of thinking about culture and cultural policy.

This book brings together multiple strands of debate around the cultural creative industries and contemporary capitalism, China's position in global capitalism, the future of modernity and new ways of thinking about culture and cultural policy.

In recent decades, there has been a new surge of interest in the history and legacies of the Silk Roads both within academic and public discourses.

In recent decades, there has been a new surge of interest in the history and legacies of the Silk Roads both within academic and public discourses.

The central issues discussed in this new collected work in the highly successful ancient textiles series are the relationships between fiber resources and availability on the one hand and the ways those resources were exploited to produce textiles on the other.

The central issues discussed in this new collected work in the highly successful ancient textiles series are the relationships between fiber resources and availability on the one hand and the ways those resources were exploited to produce textiles on the other.

Asia Minor is considered to have been a fairly prosperous region in Late Antiquity.

Asia Minor is considered to have been a fairly prosperous region in Late Antiquity.

With its rapid industrialization, modernization, and gradual democratization, Imperial Germany has typically been understood in secular terms.

The collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy at the end of World War I ushered in a period of radical change for East-Central European political structures and national identities.

During the First World War, the Jewish population of Central Europe was politically, socially, and experientially diverse, to an extent that resists containment within a simple historical narrative.

Nomads and Commissars: Mongolia Revisited, which was first published in 1962, provides a lively description of modern-day Mongolia, combined with historical material.

The distinction between "e;history"e; and "e;value"e; is the ground of this penetrating work.

This is a record of adventures, and of achievements in the face of supposedly insuperable obstacles, which is thrilling by reason of the size and color and significance of the events.

The struggle in China between the Manchus and the old Ming Dynasty had been going on for over three centuries when Captain Ansel O'Banion signed his name in blood to the secret oath with the Po Wong Wui and became involved in the Chinese revolutionary movement.

All the world knows that Roy Chapman Andrews is the discoverer of the dinosaur Eggs, for these small and fragile relics of an inconceivably remote past fired the public's imagination and were the sensation of their day.

Here is the full story of one man's adventures as he seeks out the poor and sick in China as a medical missionary, and who was still busily at work in the Far East in his 80's.

Now sorrowful, now joking, but always in deadly earnest, the Chinese philosopher faces the grim facts of war and the grimmer prospects of peace.