Asian history

This book highlights how resource constraints and client agency impact China's patronage policy in their pursuit of regional geopolitical power.

This book offers a fresh perspective on Pakistan's history, distinguishing itself in a few key ways:Multidimensional Approach: It goes beyond political history, exploring Pakistan's cultural, social, and economic evolution.

In 1980s India, the Ramsay Brothers and other filmmakers produced a wave of horror movies about soul-sucking witches, knife-wielding psychopaths, and dark-caped vampires.

Although an ally of Nazi Germany during World War II, Japan adamantly refused to accede to German demands to deal harshly with the some 40,000 Jews living under its control.

The studies brought together here focus upon the literary and cultural activity of the Chinese court during the Han and early medieval period.

This book traces the contours of the symbiotic relationship between crop cultivation and cattle rearing in India by reading against the grain of several official accounts from the late colonial period to the 1980s.

China's rise to superpower is seemingly a modern phenomenon, but it has a long history.

Judas Iscariot - a name that has become synonymous with betrayal and moral failure.

This book offers a comprehensive understanding of the developments in the modern Chinese history since the Opium War in 1840, by reflecting on the history of the Communist Party of China, the history of China since 1949, the history of the economic reform and opening up, and the history of China's socialist institutional construction respectively.

This book offers a comprehensive understanding of the developments in the modern Chinese history since the Opium War in 1840, by reflecting on the history of the Communist Party of China, the history of China since 1949, the history of the economic reform and opening up, and the history of China's socialist institutional construction respectively.

Factories of Death details the activities of the Japanese army scientists that conducted numerous horrifying experiments upon live human beings.

Sounds of the Sunny Island provides a historical overview of music in this rapidly developing city and the impact of immigration on its melodies.

This book delves into the concept and definition of social movements from different perspectives with relevance to India.

This book is a theoretical study of China's maritime development and maritime humanities and social sciences, as well as a study of China's maritime historiography.

First published in 1986, The Bulgarian Economy (now with a new preface by the author) traces the rapid growth of the Bulgarian economy throughout the twentieth century.

This book is a theoretical study of China's maritime development and maritime humanities and social sciences, as well as a study of China's maritime historiography.

This collection of studies by Edward Kennedy looks first at questions of spherical astronomy, celestial mapping and planetary models, and then deals with astrological calculations.

Hindu Customs and their Origins (1937) primarily examines the topic of caste in India, looking at the ancient ideas of the origins of caste and testing modern theories through a critical examination.

This is a Marine infantryman's combat memoir from the Invasion of Iraq to the Battle of Fallujah.

This is a Marine infantryman's combat memoir from the Invasion of Iraq to the Battle of Fallujah.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Eine Urga-Handschrift des mongolischen Geschichtswerks von Secen Sagang (alias Sanang Secen)" verfügbar.

This fully revised 2nd edition of the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Taiwan provides a comprehensive overview of both contemporary Taiwan and the Taiwan studies field.