Asian history

By focusing on traders, missionaries, warriors, and adventurers-the four types of agents who are responsible for globalizing processes- this highly accessible volume brings analytical coherence and clarity to an unwieldy subject matter.

In 1983 three priests--among them Irishman Niall O'Brien --together with six lay leaders were arrested in the Philippines on a false charge of murder.

A monumental intellectual history of the pivotal figure of Hindu nationalismVinayak Damodar Savarkar (18831966) was an intellectual, ideologue, and anticolonial nationalist leader in India's struggle for independence from British colonial rule, one whose anti-Muslim writings exploited India's tensions in pursuit of Hindu majority rule.

The 2004 book investigates how language articulates socio-political conflicts in the Middle East.

A leading scholar in early twentieth-century India, Sir Jadunath Sarkar (1870-1958) was knighted in 1929 and became the first Indian historian to gain honorary membership in the American Historical Association.

China's management of urbanization is an under-appreciated factor in the regime's longevity.

Organized Naga military activity originally flourished under state patronage.

This is the first book to focus on James Bond's relationship to the playboy ideal through the sixties and beyond.

Originally published in 1997, Bacskai's powerful ethnography portrays the political, religious, and individual forces that came to bear on the Orthodox Jewish tradition as it struggled for survival in the aftermath of the Holocaust in Hungary.

Popularly called as the land of the red river and blue hills, Assam is the gateway to the northeastern part of lndia.

Although not a professional historian, the author raises several issues pertinent to the state of history today.

First published in 1926.

In Black Metal music, the "e;most evil"e; wins.

This book examines organizations of consumerist economics, which developed at the turn of the twentieth century in the West and at the turn of the twenty-first century in China, in relation to modernist poetics.

The surprise Chinese invasion of Vietnam in 1979 shocked the international community.

A groundbreaking book by one of the world's leading historians of Chinese architectureTranslated by Alexandra Harrer.

Asia as we know it today is the product of a wide range of polity expansions over time.

In this provocative history, James B.

This volume challenges existing notions of what is "e;Indian,"e; "e;Southeast Asian,"e; and/or "e;South Asian"e; art to help educators present a more contextualized understanding of art in a globalized world.

A book that is guaranteed to raise eyebrows, The Embroidered Couch is the first English translation of an erotic novel originally published in the early 17th century, attributed to Lu Tiancheng (b.

A groundbreaking chronicle of the violent early years of the People's Republic of China, by the author of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize-winning Mao's Great Famine.

In Savage Attack: Tribal Insurgency in India the authors ask whether there is anything particularly adivasi about the forms of resistance that have been labelled as adivasi movements.

This indispensable one-volume narrative examines the history, culture, environment, economy, politics, future, and more of the city of Tokyo, Japan's political and cultural capital.

The Bennetts: An Acting Family is a chronicle of one of the royal families of stage and screen.

How competing visions of world order in the 1940s gave rise to the modern concept of globalismDuring and after the Second World War, public intellectuals in Britain and the United States grappled with concerns about the future of democracy, the prospects of liberty, and the decline of the imperial system.

Sad Amir Arjomands Kings and Dervishes is a pioneering study of the emergence and development of Sufism during the formation of the Persianate world.

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.

This is the first book to present a comprehensive history of the Northwest Caucasus.

First published in 1980, Quakers in India is an account of the Quaker encounter with India from the day the first Quaker-owned ship sailed from Liverpool for Calcutta in 1815, until more than a century later.

In the first book-length study of celebrity feminism, Anthea Taylor convincingly argues that the most visible feminists in the mediasphere have been authors of bestselling works of non-fiction: feminist 'blockbusters'.

The book provides a detailed historically-based analysis of the origin, evolution and potential resolution of the civil conflict in Sri Lanka over the struggle to establish a separate state in its Northern and Eastern provinces.

No detailed description available for "e;Civilizations in Embrace"e;.

The metamorphosis of Buddhism synchronizing with alterations in political ideology, rapid economic growth, and evolving societal demands in China's new era is the focus of this book.

In the past decade, Bangladesh has achieved significant social and economic progress.

This book covers the whole system of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, dealing with Deng Xiaoping's theory, the socialist market economy, a moderately well-off (Xiaokang) society, China's practice and theory of socialist democracy, human rights, and Xi Jinping's Marxism.

This book is one of the first edited volumes on the current Israel/Palestine conflict-the Gaza Nakba 2023-24.

No detailed description available for "e;The Historical Construction of Southeast Asian Studies"e;.

The chapters in this volume analyse issues relating to political governance, national identity, economic development and regional security that have preoccupied the states of South Asia in the fifty years following independence.

Leading Chinese journalist Sang Ye follows his successful book Chinese Lives with this collection of absorbing interviews with twenty-six men, women, and children taking the reader into the complex realities of the People's Republic of China today.

To his enlisted men on U-154, Lieutenant Oskar Kusch was the ideal skipper-bright, experienced, successful, caring, tolerably eccentric-and a popular captain who always brought his boat home safely when so many others vanished without a trace.

As a nineteenth-century commercial development, the alleyway house was a hybrid of the traditional Chinese courtyard house and the Western terraced one.

In the United States, precious little is known about the active role Muslim women have played for nearly a century in the religious culture of Indonesia, the largest majority-Muslim country in the world.

First published in 1985, this book is about an important episode, and two of its sequels, in Beijing's long struggle to achieve two goals, by force if necessary.

While most historians of the Vietnam War focus on the origins of U.

This one-volume handbook explores the history of Taiwan, from its prehistory to its Japanese colonization to its tumultuous relationship with China in the 21st century.

The assertion that even institutions often viewed as abhorrent should be dispassionately understood motivates Arkotong Longkumer's pathbreaking ethnography of the Sangh Parivar, a family of organizations comprising the Hindu right.

The success of the first four editions shows that this book fills a vacuum for readers who wish to learn about the countries of South-East Asia.