Asian history

This collection examines the role of Britain in the Islamic world.

This book discusses the role of Arabs in the Ottoman Empire for the four centuries that they were its subjects.

Science, technology, and medicine all contributed to the emerging modern Japanese empire and conditioned key elements of post-war development.

The twin deities known by the ancient Greeks as the Dioskouroi, and by the Romans as the Gemini, were popular figures in the classical world.

This book offers a multidisciplinary redefinition of China's model of crony comprador capitalism.

In the first half of the twentieth century, China moved from a millennium of imperial rule to the Communist Party-led People's Republic of China which remains today.

This book presents a collection of archaeological and anthropological writings by Li Chi, the founding father of modern archaeology in China.

In Because of Eva, an American Jewish woman travels to Eastern Europe and Israel to solve mysteries in her family's past by delving into World War II and Holocaust history.

The relationship between the Chinese nation and its recent past has been fraught with contradictions and tensions.

How China is using the US-led war on terror to erase the cultural identity of its Muslim minority in the Xinjiang regionWithin weeks of the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, the Chinese government warned that it faced a serious terrorist threat from its Uyghur ethnic minority, who are largely Muslim.

The legend of Bhagat Singh, valiant freedom fighter, will continue to inspire the youth of our country forever.

The ultimate visual guide to Samurai history and culture!

This book presents a comprehensive account of the historical development of the Charismatic Movement in Taiwan, placing it within the context of Taiwan's religious and political history.

Prostitution is strongly embedded in local cultural practices in Cambodia.

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.

Southern Afghanistan in the early 1990s was in even greater chaos than it is now.

Examines the effect of prescribed multilingualism as expressed by women writers in colonial contexts What does it mean to be an heir, as a woman writer, to colonial and postcolonial cultures in which European language has become so thoroughly ingrained?

This book examines gender, state and social power in Indonesia, focusing in particular on state regulation of divorce from 1965 to 2005 and its impact on women.

Conus is the largest genus of animals in the sea, occurring throughout the world's tropical and subtropical oceans and contributing significantly to marine biodiversity.

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.

British India, as a result of history, geopolitics and its unique status within the Empire, controlled a chain of overseas agencies that stretched from southern Persia to eastern Africa.

Arguably the greatest military commander in the history of the samurai, Toyotomi Hideyoshi rose from the ranks of the peasantry to rule over all Japan.

As long as there have been wars, there has been conscription.

The death by famine of tens of millions of human beings in Asia and Africa during the Victorian era (1837-1901) is "e;the secret history of the nineteenth century"e; about which Western history books contain nothing.

Following decades of ignoring the environment, China has become a global leader in air and water purification, solid waste management, and wastewater treatment with dramatic growth especially in solar and wind power while major outstanding problems include continued reliance on coal and other fossil fuels especially in power plants and heavy industry.

Antitrust in Germany and Japan presents an innovative, comparative analysis of the development and enforcement of two antitrust regimes, illustrating how each was shaped by American occupation strategies and policies following World War II.

Fathers in the fifties tend to be portrayed as wise and genial pipe-smokers or distant, emotionless patriarchs.

This book, first published in 1974, studies the historical development of China during the Western Han dynasty (202 BC-AD 9), a time of great intellectual, religious and political change.

The complete story of A-6 combat operations during the Vietnam War, illustrated throughout.

The first book to explore the institutional, ideological, and conceptual development of the modern state on the peninsula, Rationalizing Korea analyzes the state's relationship to five social sectors, each through a distinctive interpretive theme: economy (developmentalism), religion (secularization), education (public schooling), population (registration), and public health (disease control).

This book documents Japan's psychological deterioration caused by its defeat in August 1945.

Goods from the East focuses on the fine product trade's first Global Age: how products were made, marketed and distributed between Asia and Europe between 1600 and 1800.

Discover the rich history of Britain's millennia-old network of pathways, and it will be impossible to take an unremarkable walk again .

This foray into the often violent subcultures of Japan dramatically debunks the Western perception of a seemingly controlled and orderly society.

**Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) Winner**For fans of Japanese manga and anime, a trip to Tokyo is an absolute must!

The story of the sixteenth-century's epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific Spices drove the early modern world economy, and for Europeans they represented riches on an unprecedented scale.

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.

A ';riveting' (The Economist), ';gripping' (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) true story of the longest-held prisoner of war in American history, John Downey, Jr.

Dive into this fun and entertaining quiz book from the UK's biggest Black British pub quiz!

This book explores how religious culture influenced the ways in which the early Chinese explained the workings of the human senses.

Relations between China and Russia have evolved dramatically since their first diplomatic contact, particularly during the twentieth century.

This book describes and clarifies how certain problems can be resolved in Japan and Asia.

This book is the first to systematically document and analyze the atrocities surrounding the Cultural Revolution in China.

This book examines the development of Thailand from the integration of Siam into the European world economy at the beginning of the nineteenth century, up to the emergence of Thailand as a modern nation state in the twentieth century.

This work, first published in 1980, breaks new ground as concerns caste in India.

A global debate has emerged within Islam about how to coexist with democracy.

Performing the Politics of Translation in Modern Japan sheds new light on the adoption of concepts that motivated political theatres of resistance for nearly a century and even now underpin the collective understanding of the Japanese nation.

Located in the war-torn eastern province of Sri Lanka, this book provides a rich ethnography of how Tamil-speaking communities in Batticaloa live through and make sense of a violence that shapes everyday life itself.

The Turkish Republic was formed out of immense bloodshed and carnage.

This guide offers a different approach from the misleading formulae for success offered by much self-help business literature.