Asian history

The realities of WWII underwater warfare come to life in this chronicle of a submarine sunk in the Philippines-and the remarkable sailors who survived.

This book combines a methodological guide with an extended case study to show how digital research methods can be used to explore how ethnicity, gender, and kinship shaped early modern Algerian society and politics.

The contrast in the rate of growth between Western and Eastern societies since 1800 has caused Asian societies to be characterized as backward and resistant to change, though until 1600 or so certain Asian states were technologically far in advance of Europe.

An innovative history of US intelligence officers on the ground and the first official contacts between the United States and the Chinese Communist PartyFrom 1944 to 1947, the United States planted a liaison mission in the headquarters of Chinese Communist forces behind the lines.

This volume comprises twelve papers written by Chinese scholars on various aspects of the history of ancient Chinese economic thought.

This book is a historiographical study of the economic history of the Qing dynasty that systematically examines the research paradigms underlying the range of historical studies conducted over the past century.

The inside story of the US-China trade war, "e;especially insightful on how the contradictory natures of Trump and Xi have impeded understanding"e; (The Boston Globe).

Crazy Culture is a series of broadsides against many widely held misconceptions in both academe and the general public, who is often seen clustering under the politically correct banner of multiculturalism.

This book analyzes the domestic relations which British men came to establish with native Indian women in early colonial Bengal.

This volume derives from an unprecedented seminar held at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs in November 1990.

So many histories of the War in the Pacific focus on the Allied experience.

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From the mid-19th century to the early Cold War, the United States has a long history with China, and that interaction has not always been positive or productive.

To counter Eurocentric notions of long-term historical change, Wet Rice Cultivation and the Emergence of the Indian Ocean draws upon the histories of societies based on wet-rice cultivation to chart an alternate pattern of social evolution and state formation and traces inter-state linkages and the growth of commercialization without capitalism.

This book investigates the concept of colonial globalization to show how knowledge, information, technology, capital and labour have the potential to move freely across the world.

This proceedings book presents the first-ever cross-disciplinary analysis of 16th-20th century South, East, and Southeast Asian cartography.

Although the war in the Pacific is usually considered a carrier war, it was the cruisers that dominated the early fighting.

In The Complete Lives of Camp People Rudolf Mrazek presents a sweeping study of the material and cultural lives of twentieth-century concentration camp internees and the multiple ways in which their experiences speak to the fundamental logics of modernity.

War breeds myths, especially those made up by the vanquished to explain or soften their loss.

Gandhara is a name central to Buddhist heritage and iconography.

This book analyzes Han dynasty Chinese archaeology based on a comparison of the forms of vessels found in positively dated tombs.

This book focuses on Kolkata, formerly the colonial capital of and currently a major megacity in India, in terms of its extensive blue infrastructures, i.

This handbook presents cutting-edge research on Asian transnationalism written by experts in the areas of migration, diaspora, ethnicity, gender, language, education, politics, media, art, popular culture and literature from diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives.

This book investigates whether the theory of deliberative democracy - developed in the West to focus democratic theory on the legitimation that deliberation can afford - has any application to Chinese processes of democratization.

';Research Methodology and Techniques in History' is a lively introduction to historical methodology, an overview of the techniques historians must master in order to reconstruct the past.

The rural county of Poyang, lying in northern Jiangxi Province, goes largely unmentioned in the annals of modern Chinese history.

The story of the British army, from its inception in the late seventeenth century to the present.

Combining ethnographic and archival research, this book examines the lives of colonial-period postcards and reveals how they become objects of contemporary historical imagination in India.

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"e;An inherently fascinating, impressively well written, exceptionally informative, and meticulously detailed history"e; of Japanese overseas mercenaries (Midwest Book Review).

The Marines campaign to secure Anbar Province in Iraq will rank as one of the Corps historic battle achievements.

This book assesses the impact of liberalization on practices of government and relations between state and society.

While most studies on Korean nationalism centre on textual analysis, Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism offers a different approach.

Variation in market orientation in individual regions and the weakening of government intervention in regional income redistribution have been mainly responsible for the changes in China's regional economic disparities since 1978.

Non-nationalist anti-colonialism?

As perennial famine and material shortages call into question the tenability of North Korea's military-authoritarian government, the international community has struggled to reconcile contradictory humanitarian, economic, and political goals in formulating foreign policy and aid responses to the secretive Pyongyang regime.

Baseball has joined America and Japan, even in times of strife, for over 150 years.

First Published in 1995, the main emphasis of this book is on the political history of the Jews in Palestine, where "e;political"e; is to be understood not as the mere succession of rulers and battles but as the interaction between political activity and social, economic and religious circumstances.

Drawing on new research in the Stanley Kubrick Archive at the University of the Arts London, Kr mer's study explores the production, marketing and reception as well as the themes and style of A Clockwork Orange against the backdrop of Kubrick's previous work and of wider developments in cinema, culture and society from the 1950s to the early 1970s.

Over the past forty years, East Asia has been radically transformed from a war-damaged sub-continent to a region of global pre-eminence.

In August 1944 the British Pacific Fleet did not exist.

The second edition of this comprehensive study of recent Japanese history now includes the author's expert assessment of the effects of the earthquake and tsunami, including the political and environmental consequences of the Fukushima reactor meltdown.

This monograph discusses the dispute in geographical naming of the sea between Korea and Japan, which has been a long-lasting issue in East Asia and beyond.

In the late nineteenth century, Japan's new Meiji government established museums to showcase a national aesthetic heritage.

Based on archival research covering more than two centuries and most former British colonies (West Indies, India, Singapore, Malaya, West Africa and East Africa), this book is a revisionist history of the British imperial manipulations of colonial currency systems to facilitate the rise of sterling to world supremacy via the gold standard, and to slow its eventual decline after World War II.