Asian history

In Japan, "e;hibakusha"e; means "e;the people affected by the explosion--specifically, the explosion of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima in 1945.

An innovative remapping of empire, Imperial Connections offers a broad-ranging view of the workings of the British Empire in the period when the India of the Raj stood at the center of a newly globalized system of trade, investment, and migration.

WINNER Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award 2025, Society of Architectural HistoriansWINNER Historians of British Art Book Award 2025 for Exemplary Scholarship on the Period between 1800-1960Small Spaces recasts the history of the British empire by focusing on the small spaces that made the empire possible.

Fourteenth-century Japan witnessed a conflict about the nature of power that was expressed through the rituals and institutions of two rival courts.

Widely recognized both in America and Japan for his insider knowledge and penetrating analyses of Japanese politics, Gerald Curtis is the political analyst best positioned to explore the complexities of the Japanese political scene today.

This study, first published in 1940, examines in detail the suppression of piracy in China.

In the mid-1600s, Manchu bannermen spearheaded the military force that conquered China and founded the Qing Empire, which endured until 1912.

An introduction to the Buddhist concept of nirvana, offering its own interpretations of key texts and translations for non-specialist readers.

This book presents the welfare regime of China as a liminal space where religious and state authorities struggle for legitimacy as new social forces emerge.

This book explores the long history in China of Chinese Muslims, known as the Hui people, and regarded as a minority, though in fact they are distinguished by religion rather than ethnicity.

This fully updated fourth edition of The Making of Modern Korea provides a thorough, balanced, and engaging history of Korea from 1876 to the present day.

This book brings together conversations about the Partition and its haunting residues in the present as represented in literary, visual, oral, and material cultures of the subcontinent and beyond.

The Nobel Prize, according to the will of its founder Alfred Nobel, are awarded to persons for their services in the field of chemistry, physics, medicine and physiology, literature and peace.

This key textbook traces the development of advertising from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, providing connections with the past that illuminate present developments and point to future possibilities.

Blending physics with the study of ancient Chinese science, technology, and culture is a unique and highly effective way to present the fundamentals of physics to non-science majors.

When Chinese women bound their daughters' feet, many consequences ensued, some beyond the imagination of the binders and the bound.

Of immense significance to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the Holy Land has been attracting visitors since the fifth century BC.

Since 1989 the history of Iraq has been one of the world's most traumatic.

In this lively history and celebration of the Pacific razor clam, David Berger shares with us his love affair with the glossy, gold-colored Siliqua patula and gets into the nitty-gritty of how to dig, clean, and cook them using his favorite recipes.

This paper presents a study of Japan's international role with a special focus on its historical evolution.

The period from 1872-1947 witnessed the rise of many movements in Bengal, where those who were considered lower castes were mobilised to protest against the inequality and injustice meted out to them in various fields, including religion, politics and education.

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The book shows how the kings of the Western Zhou period used ritual to create and hold onto their power.

Indian history is one of the richest and most affluent in the world with its inception beyond 5000 years.

Canada’s six-year military mission in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province was one of the most intense and challenging moments in Canadian foreign affairs since the Korean War.

This book examines the Hong Kong Mongkok Riot (MKR) of 2016 to offer a clear and objective account of the events as they unfolded, to dispel the myths, and to explore what can be learned from it.

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

This book tells the compelling story of the average US infantryman in Vietnam.

This book examines the full range of counterinsurgency intelligence during the Malayan Emergency.

Ono examines cross-cultural artistic exchange between the West and Japan from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century.

This book presents the Persian Baburnama, a key primary source and the earliest record of Babur's memoirs.

This edited volume explores musical encounters and entanglements between Germany and East Asian nations from 1900 to the present.

Examines China''s overseas financial investments in the developing world, and its impact on national economic policymaking in the Americas.

This book highlights how resource constraints and client agency impact China's patronage policy in their pursuit of regional geopolitical power.

Even though the left has never held power in Iran, its impact on the political, intellectual and cultural development of modern Iran has been profound.

Explore the rich history of the Philippines from pre-colonial times through to the political, cultural, and environmental events of the 2010s.

At the beginning of the 1990s, a massive speculative asset bubble burst in Japan, leaving the nation's banks with an enormous burden of nonperforming loans.

A Chinese Physician is the portrait of a 16th century medical writer and clinical practitioner.

Unbundles corruption into different types, examining corruption as access money in China through a comparative-historical lens.

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.

China has emerged as a dominant power in Eurasian affairs that not only exercises significant political and economic power, but increasingly, ideational power too.

Almost everything that is known of the life and personality of Ibn Battuta is derived from his own narrative of his travels.

The Indonesian massacres of 1965-1966 claimed the lives of an estimated half a million men, women and children.

Space is dynamic, political and a cause of conflict.

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Presss Open Access publishing program.

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 explores the historical interactions between Beijing and the West before the Opium War.

This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to the combinatory tradition that dominated premodern and early modern Japanese religion, known as honji suijaku (originals and their traces).

Im Vergleich zu Westdeutschland scheint die US-amerikanische Besatzungspolitik in Japan nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg tiefgreifend und prägend gewesen zu sein.