Asian history

Following the Civil War of 1994, Yemen experienced few years of relative peace.

This collection of essays by Indonesian and foreign contributors offers new and highly original analyses of the mass violence in Indonesia which began in 1965 and its aftermath.

The Story of European in Asia forms one of the great epics of modern times.

In this work Neils Steensgaard combines an analytical economic approach with detailed historic scholarship to provide an imaginitive and important analysis of a central incident in modern world history.

For centuries, Persian was the language of power and learning across Central, South, and West Asia, and Persians received a particular basic education through which they understood and engaged with the world.

Most people believe India's struggle for independence to have begun with Mahatma Gandhi.

Since the late 1970s, China's move towards neoliberalism has made it not only one of the world's fastest growing economies, but also one of the most polarised states.

The calling to parish ministry involves a journey leading through lowland thickets and high plateau vistas.

The devastating terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and America's first domestic bio-terrorism mail attacks have shifted America's attention and resources to the immediate threat of international terrorism.

This volume, a collection of eleven original essays by many of the foremost U.

Is it possible to identify the 'essence' of Ottoman kingship?

Monsoon rains, winds, and currents have shaped patterns of production and exchange in the Indian Ocean world (IOW) for centuries.

Drawing on the rich trove of recently declassified Russian and Chinese archival materials, this history of Sino-Soviet relations in the 20th century sheds new light on key events during this period.

Within the next decade, China could be home to more Christians than any country in the world.

**Skipping Stones Honor Award Winner**The true story of a prince from Bali, whose fascinating life was shaped by uncommon events and exotic places.

Rikugun: Guide to Japanese Ground Forces 1937-1945 is the first nuts-and-bolts handbook to utilize both the voluminous raw allied intelligence documents and postwar Japanese documentation as primary sources.

Encyclopaedia of Bangladesh is a pioneering attempt by the reputed scholars to bring together not only the all aspects of the history and culture of Bangladesh but also provides factual details of the geographical features, philosophy, religion, socio-economic life of rural and urban people, history of politics and political developments, folk culture, art and architecture, literature, dance and drama, painting, and women and their socio-political status of Bangladesh since the earliest time to present day in a logical sequence.

This book is the second in a two-volume set examining the social history of the Hanjiang River region in southern China from the Song Dynasty to the modern era.

Pankaj Mishra's From the Ruins of Empire offers a surprising, gripping narrative depicting the thinkers whose ideas shaped contemporary China, India, and the Muslim world.

The extraordinary story of North Vietnam’s most successful spy During the Vietnam War, Time reporter Pham Xuan An befriended everyone who was anyone in Saigon, including American journalists such as David Halberstam and Neil Sheehan, the CIA's William Colby, and the legendary Colonel Edward Lansdale—not to mention the most influential members of the South Vietnamese government and army.

This thoroughly revised and updated third edition of Modern Japan provides a concise and fascinating introduction to the social, cultural and political history of modern Japan.

Village China Under Socialism and Reform offers a comprehensive account of rural life after the communist revolution, detailing villager involvement in political campaigns since the 1950s, agricultural production under the collective system, family farming and non-agricultural economy in the reform, and everyday life in the family and community.

Dating back to the nineteenth-century transplantation of a latex-producing tree from the Amazon to Southeast Asia, rubber production has wrought monumental changes worldwide.

The overwhelming majority of Jews who laid the foundations of the Israeli state during the first half of the twentieth century came from the Polish lands and the Russian Empire.

From the author of Think, an enlightening and entertaining exploration of narcissism and self-esteemEveryone deplores narcissism, especially in others.

This book, first published in 1928, examines the first diplomatic contacts between China and the West.

Capitalism and Colonial Production (1982) examines the ways in which capitalism has transformed the societies it came to dominate, and the link between colonialism and capitalism.

Few studies of Middle East wars go beyond a narrative of events and most tend to impose on this subject the rigid scheme of superpower competition.

Tsuchiya presents a new insight into the political roles of science and technology during the Cold War era in Asia.

The work explores the representation of socio cultural margins of caste and gender in Indian contexts in works of fiction written in various Indian languages in the twentieth century, taking representative samples from Hindi/Urdu, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam and English.

This book provides an overview of the National Dialogue design process in fragile settings at the national, regional, and international levels in the MENA region.

A decade after the 1971 wars in South Asia, the principal decisionmakers were still uncertain why wars so clearly unwanted had occurred.

Joseph Walser provides the first examination of Nagarjuna's life and writings in the context of the religious and monastic debates of the second century CE.

This well-illustrated study investigates the symbolic dimensions of painted maps as products of ambitious early modern European courts.

The society of traditional India is frequently characterized as static and dominated by caste.

In The Story of India, Michael Wood weaves a spellbinding narrative out of the 10,000-year history of the subcontinent.

The way in which Malays construe ideas about authority and government is the subject of this book.

With over 800 unique photographs, this Chinese art book is a feast for the eyes.

In 1962, a newly-minted college graduate answered the call of President John F.

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

1989 marks the unraveling of India's 'Nehruvian Consensus' around the idea of a modern, secular nation with a self-reliant economy.

This book is a study of the concept of wilaya and its developments among Shi?

Wartime Shanghai is a lively account of the political and social situation between 1937 and 1946.

Social network are nowadays inherent parts of our lives and highly developed communication technique helps us maintain our relationships.

This is the study of the status of intellectuals in the People's Republic of China during and after the events of Tiananmen Square.

This comprehensive study of China's Cold War experience reveals the crucial role Beijing played in shaping the orientation of the global Cold War and the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union.

This book is an anthology of English writing on education by Tao Xingzhi, the great Chinese educator and thinker.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.