Asian history

The decline of the economic fortunes of the Indian labouring classes under the British.

Taking as its premise the belief that communalism is not a resurgence of tradition but is instead an inherently modern phenomenon, as well as a product of the fundamental agencies and ideas of modernity, and that globalization is neither a unique nor unprecedented process, this book addresses the question of whether globalization has amplified or muted processes of communalism.

How did an obscure Islamic visionary found an empire?

Beginning in the late eighteenth century, British rule transformed the relationship between law, society, and the state in South Asia.

Lady Hyegyong's memoirs, which recount the chilling murder of her husband by his father, form one of the best known and most popular classics of Korean literature.

Children under the Allied bombs in France provides a unique perspective on the Allied bombing of France during the Second World War which killed around 57,000 French civilians.

This book reexamines the historical thinking of Liang Qichao (1873-1929), one of the few modern Chinese thinkers and cultural critics whose appreciation of the question of modernity was based on first-hand experience of the world space in which China had to function as a nation-state.

In 2019, China astonished the world by landing a spacecraft and rover on the far side of the Moon, something never achieved by any country before.

Epic battles, hideous monsters and a host of petty gods--the world of Classical mythology continues to fascinate and inspire.

The air battle for Yugoslavia, Greece and Crete began in June 1940 with the Italian declaration of war.

A young mother fights impossible odds to be reunited with her child in this acutely insightful first novel about an intercultural marriage gone terribly wrong.

In this second edition of North Korea's New Diplomacy, author Virginie Grzelczyk shows how North Korea has managed to weather an uncertain political future and catastrophic economic system since the end of the Cold War.

Regional inter-governmental human rights organizations have been in operation for sometime in Europe, the Americas and Africa.

This book explores how history shapes city development, assesses the role of government at national and sub-national levels through case studies of three secondary cities, Quanzhou, Yiwu and Nannin, and provides a link between city development and internationalization.

In Night Hunters, air power historian William P.

Reveals a distinct trajectory of Islamic history that developed among Muslim merchant communities across the medieval Indian Ocean.

Asia is one of the most rapidly developing regions in the world, and knowledge of the individual countries is crucial for our understanding of the area.

Queer Vietnam recovers the forgotten stories of variant genders and sexualities in early twentieth-century Vietnam.

How Chinese characters triumphed over the QWERTY keyboard and laid the foundation for China''s information technology successes today.

Translated from the Portuguese, with Notes and an Introduction.

Capturing China s past in all its complexity, this multi-faceted history portrays China in the context of a larger global world, while incorporating the narratives of Chinese as well as non-Chinese ethnic groups and discussing people traditionally left out of the story peasants, women, merchants, and artisans.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Geschichte Indonesiens" verfügbar.

The XB-40 and XB-41 were secret, little-known experimental modifications of the B-17F and B-24D, respectively, into heavily-armed bomber gunships sometimes referred to as bomber escorters .

What does contemporary China's diverse and exciting fiction tell us about its culture, and the relationship between art and politics?

Redrawing the Historical Past examines how multiethnic graphic novels portray and revise U.

Spring and Autumn Annals of Wu and Yue is the first complete English translation of Wu Yue Chunqiu, a chronicle of two neighboring states during China's Spring and Autumn period.

Zhu Rongji served as party secretary and mayor of Shanghai from 1987 to early 1991.

The heart of Urbanization in Early and Medieval China consists of translations of three gazetteers written during the Han (206 BCE220 CE), Tang (618907), and Northern Song (9601126) dynasties describing the city of Suzhou.

The essays selected for this volume show how the Pacific rapidly became part of an industrializing world.

Throughout the past three decades East Asia has seen more peace and stability than at any time since the Opium Wars of 1839-1841.

Between December 1941 and May 1942, the British Empire suffered a series of humiliating defeats in the Far East.

Moroccan culture today is a blend of Berber, African, Arab, Jewish, and European influences in an Islamic state.

The most important bilateral relationship in Asia since the end of World War II is assuredly between the United States and Japan.

Since the demise of Soviet power, the newly independent republics are redefining their identities and their relations with the world at large.

This book examines the coalitions and relationships within the power centers of Shi'ite politics during the era of political feudalism in Lebanon.

Examines the tale of Cinderella as a fascinating, multilayered, and ever-changing story constantly reinvented in different media and traditions.

From Country to Nation tracks the emergence of the modern Japanese nation in the nineteenth century through the history of some of its local aspirants.

An account of Tibet and the Tibetan people that emphasises the political history of the 20th century.

Elidor Mehilli has produced a groundbreaking history of communist Albania that illuminates one of Europe's longest but least understood dictatorships.

Designed for classroom use, The First Anglo-Afghan Wars gathers in one volume primary source materials related to the first two wars that Great Britain launched against native leaders of the Afghan region.

This book offers the first in-depth study of three major Hong Kong public cultural architecture works, Tsuen Wan Town Hall, Shatin Town Hall and the Hong Kong Cultural Centre (HKCC), built in the late-colonial years.

The first Christian communities were established among the population of Hindi- and Urdu-speaking North India during the middle of the nineteenth century.

Throughout this lively and concise historical account of Mao Zedong’s life and thought, Rebecca E.

The essays reprinted here trace the history of Chinese emigration into the Pacific region, first as individuals, traders or exiles, moving into the 'Nanyang' (Southeast Asia), then as a mass migration across the ocean after the mid-19th century.

Bryson's Management of the Estate (Oikonomikos Logos) offers advice on the key private concerns of the Roman elite: getting rich, managing slaves, love and marriage, and bringing up children.