Asian history

This book examines the role of Hindu-inspired faith movements (HIFMs) in contemporary India as actors in social transformation.

Throughout modern-day Israel, over four hundred Palestinian villages were depopulated in the 1947-1949 war.

Based on extensive archival research in South Africa and drawing on the most recent scholarship, this book is an original and lucid exposition of the ideological, political and administrative origins of Apartheid.

An introduction to the Qur''an (Koran), a text that has guided the lives of millions.

Helen Hardacre, a leading scholar of religious life in modern Japan, examines the Japanese state's involvement in and manipulation of shinto from the Meiji Restoration to the present.

A veteran RAF fighter pilot reflects on his service in the sky during the Cold War, the Gulf War, and more in this exciting memoir.

Commercial Relations between India and England (1924) is a comprehensive study of the beginnings of the English relations with India and the East.

Notwithstanding the long shadows cast by Abu Ghraib and Guantnamo, the United States has been generally humane in the treatment of prisoners of war, reflecting a desire to both respect international law and provide the kind of treatment we would want for our own troops if captured.

During the first four decades of the twentieth century, the British Indian Army possessed an illusion of racial and religious inclusivity.

This book explores the question "e;Why is the US Navy in the South China Sea at all?

The Safavid dynasty, which reigned from the late fifteenth to the eighteenth century, links medieval with modern Iran.

In Knowledge and the Ends of Empire, Ian W.

Why do sports matter so much to so many people?

This essay collection presents a new examination and fresh insight into Sino-American relations from the end of World War II to the 1960s.

Manipur is bounded by Nagaland in the north, Mizoram in the south, upper Myanmar.

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.

Hindu nationalism has emerged as a political ideology represented by the Hindu Mahasabha.

The China we know today emerged at the end of a long period of internal rebellions, civil wars, foreign invasions, and revolutionary insurrections that stretched across the nineteenth century to the mid-point of the twentieth.

The first English-language study of German-Japanese interwar relations to employ sources in both languages.

Often portrayed as an inept and stubborn tyrant, South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem has long been the subject of much derision but little understanding.

This comprehensive and absorbing book traces the cultural history of Southeast Asia from prehistoric (especially Neolithic, Bronze-Iron age) times through to the major Hindu and Buddhist civilizations, to around AD 1300.

For young Englishwomen stepping off the steamer, the sights and sounds of humid colonial India were like nothing theyd ever experienced.

Paul Rusch first traveled from Louisville, Kentucky, to Tokyo in 1925 to help rebuild YMCA facilities in the wake of the Great Kanto earthquake.

In the early morning darkness of 19 March 1969, troops from Britain’s 2nd Battalion of the Parachute Regiment (2 PARA) and Royal Marines, clambered into the small landing craft and helicopters aboard HMS Minervaand HMS Rothesay.

This book describes artisans from South Sulawesi, Indonesia, as they attempt to overcome poverty and communicate ethnic identity through participation in fluctuating silk and tourist souvenir industries.

Twenty-five years in the Navy had made Cheryl Ruff an independent, resilient, strong woman -and a master at providing patient care while serving at various Navy hospitals around the world.

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.

This book aims to explore various aspects of the use of moving images in fashion retail and fashion apparel companies in-store or online.

First published in 1986, this book sets Kipling firmly in the historical context not only of contemporary India but of prior Anglo-Indian writers about India.

In this colorful and detailed history, Joshua Goldstein describes the formation of the Peking opera in late Qing and its subsequent rise and re-creation as the epitome of the Chinese national culture in Republican era China.

Once the capital of the five-hundred-year Choson dynasty (1392-1897) and the Taehan Empire (1897-1910), the city of Seoul posed unique challenges to urban reform and modernization under Japanese colonial rule in the early twentieth century, constrained by the labyrinthian built environment of the old Korean capital.

Received wisdom has it that Buddhism disappeared from India, the land of its birth, between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, long forgotten until British colonial scholars re-discovered it in the early 1800s.

In recent years anthropologists have focused on informal, unfree, and other nonnormative labor arrangements and labeled them as "e;noncapitalist.

A classic, finally back in print!

India, colourful and vibrant, is a land as diverse as its people.

Southeast Asia consists of the countries of Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.

The kingworms, Nepal and Bhutan are two of the poorest and least developed countries in the world.

How science in medieval Europe originated in Buddhist AsiaWarriors of the Cloisters tells how key cultural innovations from Central Asia revolutionized medieval Europe and gave rise to the culture of science in the West.

The description for this book, Policy Making in China, will be forthcoming.

Exploring the fundamental question of how a new discipline comes into being, this groundbreaking book tells the story of the emergence of native ethnology in Imperial Japan, a "e;one nation"e; social science devoted to the study of the Japanese people.

Encyclopaedia of Bangladesh is a pioneering attempt by the reputed scholars to bring together not only the all aspects of the history and culture of Bangladesh but also provides factual details of the geographical features, philosophy, religion, socio-economic life of rural and urban people, history of politics and political developments, folk culture, art and architecture, literature, dance and drama, painting, and women and their socio-political status of Bangladesh since the earliest time to present day in a logical sequence.

This volume seeks to capture the rich array of images that define Japan's encounters with the Pacific Ocean.

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.

In this revealing study, Daisuke Miyao explores "e;the aesthetics of shadow"e; in Japanese cinema in the first half of the twentieth century.

This book offers an interdisciplinary, historically grounded study of Asian cinemas' complex responses to the Cold War conflict.

In 1958, Suzanne and Ezra Vogel embedded themselves in a Tokyo suburban community, interviewing six middle-class families regularly for a year.

This collection examines literature and film studies from the late colonial and early postcolonial periods in Taiwan and Korea, and highlights the similarities and differences of Taiwanese and Korean popular culture by focusing on the representation of gender, genre, state regulation, and spectatorship.