Asian history

When his electronic warfare plane--call sign Bat 21--was shot down on 2 April 1972, fifty-three-year-old Air Force navigator Iceal "e;Gene"e; Hambleton parachuted into the middle of a North Vietnamese invasion force and set off the biggest and most controversial air rescue effort of the Vietnam War.

This volume provides an overview of the nature and scope of the concept of Sunna both in pre-modern and modern Islamic discussions.

In 1949, G.

Pan'gye surok (or "e;Pan'gye's Random Jottings"e;) was written by the Korean scholar and social critic Yu Hyongwon(1622-1673), who proposed to reform the Joseon dynasty and realise an ideal Confucian society.

The Russo-Japanese War was in essence a colonial conflict between the expanding interests of Russia and Japan in East Asia.

Encyclopaedia of Asia: Land, Culture and People is a unique attempt in the sense that for the first time the editors have attempted to provide readers with most contemporary information-base about these very important countries, forming the said region, called Asia.

In today's world all eyes are on Iran, which has grappled with an experiment that has had a massive global impact.

In Philosophical Enactment and Bodily Cultivation in Early Daoism, Thomas Michael illuminates the formative early history of the Daodejing and the social, political, religious, and philosophical trends that indelibly marked it.

The Routledge Handbook of the History of Colonialism in South Asia provides a comprehensive overview of the historiographical specialisation and sophistication of the history of colonialism in South Asia.

During the Pacific War the Japanese government used a wide range of methods to recruit workers for construction projects throughout the occupied territories.

The Sung Dynasty (960-1279) was a paradoxical era for Chinese women.

Terror warnings, fake news, spectacles and scandals in real time - the networked world has wound itself up into a nervous frenzy, where everything has become visible: the banal and the terrible, the uninhibited abuse and the anonymous attack.

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

An objective, professional, and informed resource that will help you understand the history and culture of the Middle Eastincluding including Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Kuwait, Turkey, and Syria.

During the Vietnam War, the U.

Dennis Merrill examines the origins and implementation of U.

In this clear and concise volume, author David Chandler provides a timely overview of Cambodia, a small but increasingly visible Southeast Asian nation.

This book presents a great deal of new primary research on a wide range of aspects of early modern East Asia.

'On the Shadow Tracks harnesses the railway lines of Myanmar s complicated past to its turbulent present, and the result is part travelogue, part history and completely absorbing.

Middle East oil and Anglo-American special relations were among the most contentious issues during the Cold War.

Ancient history is the study of the written past from the beginning of recorded human history to the Early Middle Ages.

"e;Harmsen makes a convincing argument that the occupation of Greenland fits within the broader narrative of the war, and is just as important to remember and understand as 'bigger' events that overshadow it.

A detailed examination of the industrial development of Japan since the Meiji Restoration.

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.

My Men Are My Heroes introduces its readers to a living standard of Marine Corps esprit de corps and military decorum.

This book re-visits the history of the Korean War of 1950-1953 from a Chinese perspective, examining Chinese strategy and exploring why China sent three million troops to Korea, in Mao's words, to "e;defend the homeland and safeguard the country"e;-giving rise to what became the war's common name in China.

The musical output of jazz pianist and composer Herbie Hancock has toppled genre boundaries and influenced generations of musicians.

For the Chinese, the drive toward growing political and economic power is part of an ongoing effort to restore China's past greatness and remove the lingering memories of history's humiliations.

The sixty years between 1773 and 1833 determined British paramountcy in India.

In this cogent and insightful reading of China's twentieth-century political culture, David Strand argues that the Chinese Revolution of 1911 engendered a new political life-one that began to free men and women from the inequality and hierarchy that formed the spine of China's social and cultural order.

Commodity, culture and colonialism are intimately related and mutually constitutive.

Cinema has become a battleground upon which history is made-a major mass medium of the twentieth century dealing with history.

This study of the Tunisian army and government in the time of the pasha-bey Hammuda the Husaynid (1777--1814) stresses the deeply Ottoman character of these institutions and the political and administrative impact of the jurisdictional authority of the Ottoman Porte on the province in general.

This book is a comparative study of imperial organization and longevity in the Ottoman Empire.

An in-depth look at how democratic values have widened the American arts scene, even as it remains elite and cosmopolitanTwo centuries ago, wealthy entrepreneurs founded the American cathedrals of culture-museums, theater companies, and symphony orchestras-to mirror European art.

An iconoclastic history of the first two decades after independence in IndiaNehru's India brings a provocative but nuanced set of new interpretations to the history of early independent India.

“An authoritative look at an event that has taken on a legendary status .

A candid, rollicking literary travelogue from a pioneering New Yorker writer, an intrepid heroine who documented China in the years before World War II.

Once part and parcel of greater India.

The riveting story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China'A masterpiece' CHRISTOPHER ANDREW, author of The Defence of the Realm: The Authorised History of MI5'The book we have all been waiting for' BRENDAN SIMMS, author of Hitler: A Global Biography'Gripping, authoritative.

This book analyzes the Central Asian economies of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, from their buffeting by the commodity boom of the early 2000s to its collapse in 2014.

Dogen and Soto Zen builds upon and further refines a continuing wave of enthusiastic popular interest and scholarly developments in Western appropriations of Zen.

This volume is a comprehensive historical exploration of the Red Sea, a vital maritime route that connects the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean.

This book explores contested notions of "e;Chineseness"e; in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong during the Cold War, showing how competing ideas about "e;Chineseness"e; were an important ideological factor at play in the region.

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.

This book provides the first ever intelligence history of Iraq from 1941 to 1945, and is the third and final volume of a trilogy on regional intelligence and counterintelligence operations that includes Nazi Secret Warfare in Occupied Persia (Iran) (2014), and Espionage and Counterintelligence in Occupied Persia (Iran) (2015).