Asian history

This study is the first to analyze both the Nazi party's membership development and composition, as well as the motives for joining and the exoneration strategies of former party members chosen during the denazification process.

This volume examines nationhood as a concept and how it became the basis of political discourse in South Asia.

The landmark 2008 presidential and vice presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin brought the role of women in American leadership into sharper focus than ever before.

An accessible, transregional exploration of how Islam and Asia have shaped each other''s histories, societies and cultures from the seventh century to today.

This book explores the human-engineered flooding of China''s Yellow River, and how it affected the state, environment, and inhabitants of the region.

The Ming dynasty was the last great Chinese dynasty before the Manchu conquest in 1644.

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Wartime Shanghai is a lively account of the political and social situation between 1937 and 1946.

Ethiopia, a country of ancient origins in eastern Africa, remains a military powerhouse of that continent until our days.

This is an up-to-date, comprehensive history of all Christian denominations in the Korean peninsula set within a global religious and geopolitical context.

After the trauma of mass violence and massive population movements around the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, both new nation states faced the enormous challenge of creating new national narratives, symbols, and histories, as well as a new framework for their political life.

Now in its 7th edition, Vietnam: An American Ordeal continues to provide a thorough account of the failed American effort to create a viable, non-Communist state in Southern Vietnam.

In the decade following the first Gulf War, most observers regarded it as an exemplary effort by the international community to lawfully and forcefully hold a regional aggressor in check.

Winner of the prestigious Yoshida Shigeru Prize 1999 for the best book in public history when it was published in its original Japanese, this book presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of Japan's international relations from the end of the Pacific War to the present.

This book introduces readers to oracle bone inscriptions (OBI), the oldest known form of Chinese writing.

In 1967 68, the United States Marine Corps (USMC) was on the front line of the defence of South Vietnam's Quang Tri province, which was at the very heart of the Vietnam conflict.

Portuguese Asia, otherwise known as the Estado da Andia Oriental, has been far less studied than the Spanish empire in America, its counterpart in the Western hemisphere.

Japan's momentous Showa era began in 1926, when Emperor Hirohito ascended the throne, and ended with his death in 1989.

Southeast Asia serves as an excellent case study to discuss major transformations in the relationship between states.

This book rethinks the Armenian people as significant actors in the context of Mediterranean and global history.

A monumental new history of British conflict, publishing for the eightieth anniversary of VE Day'Impressive.

';The only way this war is going to end is if the American people truly understand what we have done in their name.

This book explores the recent history of India -a history that focuses on the British Empire, and all that it did on the vast subcontinent during centuries of governance.

The Chronicle of a People's War: The Military and Strategic History of the Cambodian Civil War, 1979-1991 narrates the military and strategic history of the Cambodian Civil War, especially the People's Republic of Kampuchea (PRK), from when it deposed the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in 1979 until the political settlement in 1991.

This is the first book to systematically study the Hepu Han Tombs.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi took pride in calling himself a Sanatani Hindu.

The world was at war, America precariously poised on the sidelines.

Each great samurai warlord, or daimyo, had a division of troops known as the Hatamoto, 'those who stand under the flag'.

This book offers a global history of the Indian Ocean and focuses on a holistic perspective of the worlds of water.

The work of explorers, surveyors and spies in the race to conquer Southern Asia is vividly recounted in this history of British imperial cartography.

Drawing on historiography of the Japanese occupation in the Chinese, Japanese, and English languages, this book examines the politics of the Manchukuo puppet state from the angle of notable Chinese who cooperated with the Japanese military and headed its government institutions.

This book tracks the transformation of sexuality and gender in China, from late imperial times to modern times.

First published in 1988, Science, Politics and the Cold War is a history of the cold-war era that demonstrates the extent to which science and scientists have been implicated in every aspect of the political process.

Since the American Revolution, African American women have served in every U.

The A to Z of Malaysia encapsulates the development of Malaysia from prehistory to the early years of the 21st century.

In 1904, renowned architect Daniel Burnham, the Progressive Era urban planner who famously "e;Made No Little Plans,"e; set off for the Philippines, the new US colonial acquisition.

Spanning the 130-year period between the end of the Tokugawa Era and the end of the Cold War, this book introduces students to the formation, collapse, and rebirth of the modern Japanese state.

Politics and Leadership in North Korea, now fully updated in this second edition, presents an accessible and comprehensive account of North Korea's political, economic and foreign policies since its creation in 1945.

From Hello Kitty to Maneki Neko--Japan is the epicentre of global cat culture!

In the years following Japan's long period of self-imposed isolation from the world, Japan developed a new relationship with the West, and especially with Britain, where relations grew to be particularly close.

Examines the role and influence of news ''fixers'' in Turkey and Syria who assist foreign journalists with local sources and shape the news.

A striking first-person account of the Cultural Revolution in Inner Mongolia, embedded in a close examination of the historical evidence on China's minority nationality policies to the present.

A riveting combination of war memoir and analysis providing “valuable insights” into the role of military intelligence in Vietnam (International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence).

About the Allies victory in the Pacific in WWII, it goes almost without question that Japans defeat was inevitable in the face of overwhelming American military might and economic power.

Translated by the noted Victorian Orientalist, Sir Richard F.

A soldier-citizen describes the role of the Republic of China's military in the political socialization of Taiwan's citizens during the first two decades after the loss of the Chinese mainland.

This book examines the complex relations between Joseon Korea (1392-1910) and Ming/Qing China in history, and reveals their contemporary implications for the nature of a China-dominated order in East Asia and the relations between China and the middle powers in the region.

This deft and lively study by Robert DeCaroli explores the questions of how and why the earliest verifiable images of the historical Buddha were created.