Asian history

One of the core assumptions of recent American foreign policy is that China's post-1978 policy of "e;reform and openness"e; will lead to political liberalization.

This book interprets the concepts, philosophies and cultural traditions of lunli (roughly construed as "e;relationships and rationality"e;) from the perspective and domain of 'dialogue civilization.

The helicopter changed war forever.

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Winner: Captain Richard Lukaszewicz Memorial Book AwardWedged chronologically between World War II and Vietnam, the Korean Warwhich began with North Koreas invasion of South Korea in June of 1950possessed neither the virtuous triumphalism of the former nor the tragic pathos of the latter.

A survey of the Vietnamese communist experience during the Vietnam War (1954–75) with a focus on high-level decision-making and military planning.

Revisionist history of the transformation of clothing in China during the Mao years, 1949–1976.

Drawing on scientific evidence from medicine, psychology, criminology, and sociology, this book explores the veracity of claims about marijuana use and misuse.

A richly diverse collection of classical Indian terms for expressing the many moods and subtleties of emotional experienceWords for the Heart is a captivating treasury of emotion terms drawn from some of India's earliest classical languages.

This groundbreaking study examines the unlikely merger of two Japanese cultural phenomena, an 11th-century aristocratic text and contemporary manga comics.

Transcending ethnic, linguistic, and religious boundaries, early empires shaped thousands of years of world history.

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.

Traces the history of modern migration against the background of empires, their dissolution and the onset of modernity.

This book studies the first 50 years of Bangladesh politics since independence.

This study examines the origins of the Vietnam War itself, going back to the nature of French colonial rule in the early 20th century.

Japan's Holy War reveals how a radical religious ideology drove the Japanese to imperial expansion and global war.

The actions of the radical left in Punjab in pre-Independence India during the 1920s and 30s have often been viewed as foreign and quintessentially un-Indian due to their widely vilified opposition to the Quit India campaign.

Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Johns was commissioned at the RAF College Cranwell in 1959 after completing flying training on Piston Provost and Meteor aircraft.

The Origins of the Choson Dynasty provides an exhaustive analysis of the structure and composition of Korea's central officialdom during the transition from the Koryo dynasty (918-1392) to the Choson dynasty (1392-1910) and offers a new interpretation of the history of traditional Korea.

Challenging conventional understandings of time and memory, Christopher T.

From the 90 or so articles he has published in the last two decades Professor Lloyd has chosen fifteen of the most important and influential to be reprinted in this collection.

A highly original work in history and theory, this survey considers major themes including identity, class and sexual difference, and weaves them into debates on the nature and point of history.

John Hobson challenges the ethnocentric bias of mainstream accounts of the Rise of the West.

The book sets out to explore the history of Palestinian nationalism by asking if there were historical antecedents of this identity prior to the twentieth century, and whether this nationalism existed on every social level.

In the completely revised second edition of this highly praised book, Susumu Yabuki, one of Japan's leading China experts, and Stephen M.

Out of the ashes of its defeat in World War II, Japan arose to become the foremost economic power in the East Asia and a major player on the world economic stage.

The book addresses for the first time the dynamics associated with the modernization of mathematics in China from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century from a transcultural global historical perspective.

How do specific secular and religious ideologies-such as nationalism, neoliberalism, atheism, Pentecostalism, Tablighi Islam, and shamanism-gain popularity and when do they lose traction?

This book examines how the Byzantine Empire came to lose so much of its territory to Islamic conquerors in the seventh century.

Chinas Continuous Revolution: The Post-Liberation Epoch 1949-1981explores the ambitious and transformative era of Chinas political landscape after the founding of the Peoples Republic in 1949.

Practicing Sectarianism explores the imaginative and contradictory ways that people live sectarianism.

With a sharp eye and wry wit, Roger Hall recounts his experiences as an American Army officer assigned to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II.

How the Grand Alliance of World War II succeeded-and then collapsed-because of personal politicsIn the spring of 1945, as the Allied victory in Europe was approaching, the shape of the postwar world hinged on the personal politics and flawed personalities of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin.

This book seeks to examine and explain the curious and important nexus between religion and politics in the light of the political philosophies of Tilak and Gandhi.

Collaborative Damage is an experimental ethnography of Chinese globalization that compares data from two frontlines of China's global intervention-sub-Saharan Africa and Inner/Central Asia.

'Who has not heard of the Vale of Cashmere With its roses the brightest that earth ever gave Its temples, and grottos, and mountains as clear As the love-lighted eyes that hang over their wave' -Thomas Moore The paradise on earth is in turmoil, abetted and aided by foreign tribals, the terrorists have spread death and destruction every where resulting m mass exodus of Pandits from their ancestral land.

Winner: Society for Military History Distinguished Book AwardPopular impressions of the imperial Japanese army still promote images of suicidal banzai charges and fanatical leaders blindly devoted to their emperor.

Mikhail Gorbachev's relations with the West have captured the imagination of contemporaries and historians alike, but his vision of Soviet leadership in Asia has received far less attention.

Asia, the cradle of civilization and culture have had a unique yet important position in the human history on the earth.

Japan's Contested War Memories is an important and significant book that explores the struggles within contemporary Japanese society to come to terms with Second World War history.

The 1950s and 1960s were a key moment in the development of postwar France.

The phenomenon of "e;war brides"e; from Japan moving to the West has been quite widely discussed, but this book tells the stories of women whose lives followed a rather different path after they married foreign occupiers.

Action-packed history of the Germans in Africa in World War II.

It is widely accepted, both inside China and in the West, that contemporary Chinese history begins with the May Fourth Movement.

The Khmer Rouge regime took control of Cambodia by force of arms, then committed the most brazen crimes since the Third Reich: at least 1.

This Pivot explores the uses of the Mughal past in the historical fiction of colonial India.