Asian history

Retaining well-loved features from the previous editions,The Transformation of China 1936-1997 has been approved by AQA and matched to the new 2015 specification.

Considers the Indian periodical press as a key forum for the production of nationalist rhetoric.

“A comprehensive and impressively written history of the Korean War.

Available in print for the first time, this day-by-day diary of George H.

Following the success of his recent book on Navy SEALs in Iraq, The Sheriff of Ramadi, bestselling author and combat veteran Dick Couch now examines the importance of battlefield ethics in effectively combating terrorists without losing the battle for the hearts of the local population.

At the beginning of the 20th Century Jordan, like much of the Middle East, was a loose collection of tribes.

Japanese society believes they enjoy socio-economic equality.

In this fully illustrated book an expert on the conflicts traces the progress of the wars in Chechnya, from the initial Russian advance through to urban battles such as Grozny, and the prolonged guerrilla warfare in the mountainous regions.

This one-volume thematic encyclopedia examines life in contemporary India, with topical sections focusing on geography, history, government and politics, economy, social classes and ethnicity, religion, food, etiquette, literature and drama, and more.

In a remarkable example of history as detective work, Brian Martin pieces together the fascinating and complex story of the Shanghai Green Gang and its charismatic leader, Du Yuesheng.

Indias struggle for Independence was against British Colonialism.

Rewriting Hong Kong's history from the bottom up, the chapters investigate vital, but hitherto obscured, aspects of the colony's rise.

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With commentary and annotations throughout, Ming Dynasty Tales: A Guided Reader presents for the first time in English 10 key stories from China's Ming Dynasty era.

HIV ravaged the African continent faster and earlier than any other in the world, spreading primarily through unprotected heterosexual sex.

Samurai: An Illustrated History brings the violent, tumultuous, and, at the same time, elegant world of the medieval Japanese samurai to life.

This book examines the emergence of imperial state in East Asia during the period ca.

The storm came on the night of 31 October.

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

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a prolific playwright with more than thirty plays to his credit.

This insightful book relates how Emperor Haile Selassie helped shape America's image of Africa and how that image continues to evolve in the United States today.

The Tiandihui, also known as the Heaven and Earth Association or the Triads, was one of the earliest, largest, and most enduring of the Chinese secret societies that have played crucial roles at decisive junctures in modern Chinese history.

This book offers an innovative study of trade, production and consumption across the Indian Ocean between the years 1750 and 1850.

This book examines the institutional contexts of dramaturgical practices in the changing political landscape of 20th century Germany.

A revised and updated edition of Waines'' wide-ranging account of the history and theology of Islam.

In this book, film scholars, anthropologists, and critics discuss star-making in the contemporary Hindi-language film industry in India, also known as "e;Bollywood.

A comprehensive exploration of postrevolution Iranian foreign policy analyzes the country's relations with key nations and regions and the impact of both Iran's domestic situation and the developing global system.

Few thorough ethnographic studies on Central Indian tribal communities exist, and the elaborate discussion on the cultural meanings of Indian food systems ignores these societies altogether.

Timely analysis of the rule of law and extradition in Hong Kong''s history through the legal case of Ho Chi Minh.

This book, first published in 1975, is a comprehensive list of all the books on India, written in English before 1900.

This volume examines the emerging forms and themes of theologies in Asian Christianity.

This book is a historical study of modern Gujarat, India, addressing crucial questions of language, identity, and power.

Drawing on historiography of the Japanese occupation in the Chinese, Japanese, and English languages, this book examines the politics of the Manchukuo puppet state from the angle of notable Chinese who cooperated with the Japanese military and headed its government institutions.

A detailed examination of the industrial development of Japan since the Meiji Restoration.

This book offers an institutional history of the British Legation in Kabul, which was established in response to the independence of Afghanistan in 1919.

This compelling study of a previously overlooked vice industry explores the larger structural forces that led to the growth of prostitution in Japan, the Pacific region, and the North American West at the turn of the twentieth century.

Imperialism and Social Reform (1960) examines British social-imperialism and the development of social-imperial thought: the promotion of a 'people's imperialism', or the support of the working classes for the imperialist system.

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.

America's second war against Iraq differed notably from its first.

Forming minorities in five adjacent countries for 74 years, Kurds have been fighting for independence or autonomy, against governments reluctant to accede either.

This innovative revisiting of South Asian intellectual history critically examines Nirad C.

'AN INTELLIGENTLY PRESENTED HISTORICAL FANTASY THAT PROVOKES THOUGHT FROM THE START' THE BRITISH FANTASY SOCIETYWhere once new ideas and beliefs were accepted, now the country's military dictator, the Shogun is shutting his country down to any outside influences.

Since January 2004, a violent separatist insurgency has raged in southern Thailand, resulting in more than three thousand deaths.

On March 11, 2011, an underwater earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tohoku, Japan, triggered one of the most devastating tsunamis of a generation.

This study is the first to analyze both the Nazi party's membership development and composition, as well as the motives for joining and the exoneration strategies of former party members chosen during the denazification process.

Germans of various disciplines not only encouraged but actively framed a discourse that gendered India through voyeuristic descriptions of the male and female body.

Jahangir was the fourth of the six “Great Mughals,” the oldest son of Akbar the Great, who extended the Mughal Empire across the Indian Subcontinent, and the father of Shah Jahan, builder of the Taj Mahal.

In early 1946, Kurds declared an independent republic in north-west Iran.