Asian history

India, colourful and vibrant, is a land as diverse as its people.

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the political systems of all ASEAN countries and Timor-Leste from a comparative perspective.

Defeated in the Sino-Japanese War 1894 95 and the Boxer Rebellion of 1900, Imperial China collapsed into revolution and a republic was proclaimed in 1912.

This Palgrave Pivot combines anthropological, biographical and autoethnographic perspectives onto imperial intimacies, the transgenerational transmission of colonial and familial trauma, and violence in two kinds of household: the Chinese family in British Hong Kong and wider imperial Asia, and the Anglo-Chinese family in England.

The distinctive beverage of the Western world, bourbon is Kentucky's illustrious gift to the world of spirits.

Sea turtle populations around the world are endangered, and in recent years tourism has been a critical element in worldwide efforts to save them.

This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to the combinatory tradition that dominated premodern and early modern Japanese religion, known as honji suijaku (originals and their traces).

The book entitled ';Encyclopaedia of Untouchables, Ancient, Medieval and Modern' compiled in 2 volumes witnesses to the fact that how the Brahminical ideology used to behave with the poor people of the ';Father' which is totally unbearable to a normal person, even though they used to clean the cities, latrines, skin of the dead animals which were owned by the Brahmans.

Charts the development of merchant communities in Sind and their interaction with the global economy.

This book analyzes the benefits of and legal concerns in connection with the delegated legislation of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone as a prime example of experimental legislation in Chinese law.

The Malayan Communist Party's (MCP) decisive defeat in 1960 led many academics and Counterinsurgency (COIN) experts to overlook the resurrection of its armed struggle in 1968.

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.

Eddie Fung has the distinction of being the only Chinese American soldier to be captured by the Japanese during World War II.

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A striking new analysis of Myanmar''s court system, revealing how the rule of law is ''lexically present but semantically absent''.

This book addresses head-on a core current critique of how the Sino-American relationship was managed across eight administrations.

The mapping, control and subjugation of the human body and mind were core features of the colonial conquest.

The book provides a clear portrayal of Thailand's culture and society, and explains its significance in the history of human civilization, its strategic geographic location, and its attraction as a tourist destination.

"e;Through meticulous research in archives and crumbling ventilation shafts, Chatterton paints a picture of Britain in the Second World War that turns our popular narrative on its head.

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This book analyzes multiple aspects of the Chinese livestreaming e-commerce industry, including its development and evolution, macro environment, market landscape, platforms, streamer structure trends, influencers, production, and explosive marketing methods, MCN operations, risk assessment and policy management.

The Second World War was a truly global conflict and maritime power played a major role in every theatre of operations.

As a transnational history of science, Japan's Empire of Birds: Aristocrats, Anglo-Americans, and Transwar Ornithology focuses on the political aspects of highly mobile Japanese explorer-scientists, or cosmopolitan gentlemen of science, circulating between Japanese and British/American spaces in the transwar period from the 1920s to 1950s.

"e;Author James Mills presents an amazing, detailed history review of the German surface-to-air guided missile technology development.

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On 1 May 1960, Bombay Province was bifurcated into the two new provinces of Gujarat and Maharashtra, amidst scenes of great public fanfare and acclaim.

A history of the true World War II operations of the little known Norwegian American Battalion, a special unit that fought across Europe to free Norway.

Sikkim, the 22nd state of the Indian union, is a small mountain state in eastern Himalayas.

Since the publication of The Rifles Are There in 2005, which dealt with the 1st and 2nd Battalions Royal Ulster Rifles in the Second World War, it was felt by many that a follow up volume dealing with the Korean conflict was overdue.

Without what the Allies learned in the Mediterranean air war in 1942-1944, the Normandy landingsand so, perhaps, the Second World War IIwould have ended differently.

A forceful reckoning with the relationship between energy and power through the history of what was once East Asia's largest coal mine.

A comprehensive biography of the Indonesian nationalist leader and Prime Minister of the Indonesian Republic, Sutan Sjahrir.

Providing an appealing chronology of "e;all things dinosaur,"e; this book covers these ancient creatures' roles and surprising importance in science, religion, and society at large.

In We Were Adivasis, anthropologist Megan Moodie examines the Indian state's relationship to "e;Scheduled Tribes,"e; or adivasis-historically oppressed groups that are now entitled to affirmative action quotas in educational and political institutions.

A substantial collection of unpublished articles, lectures and papers from one of the finest Indian historians of the twentieth century.

This book offers a radical perspective on what are conventionally called the Islamic Conquests of the seventh century.

The International People's Tribunal addressed the many forms of violence during the period of the massacres of 1965-1966 in Indonesia.

This book recasts the role of the Indian Army on the Western Front, questioning why its performance was traditionally deemed a failure.

Based on a study of recent political behaviour in a rural region of India, the author presents a critique of pluralist theories of democracy and advances a new approach to political sociology.

Weaving together information from official sources and personal interviews, Barbara Tomblin gives the first full-length account of the US Army Nurse Corps in the Second World War.

This book examines the full range of counterinsurgency intelligence during the Malayan Emergency.

This book presents the results of a series of studies of the labor markets in Pune, a medium-sized city in India.

ECPA Medallion of ExcellenceWinnerCartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS) Annual Map Design CompetitionThe Bible is a Story.

This book assesses British colonialism in South Asia in a transnational light, with the Indian Ocean region as its ambit, and with a focus on 'subaltern' groups and actors.

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 study, written from the perspective of political sociology, represents the first comparative examination of Central Asian communal and political organisation before and after the tsarist conquest of the region.

A groundbreaking retelling of the advent of British rule in Sri Lanka.

Winning the Third World examines afresh the intense and enduring rivalry between the United States and China during the Cold War.