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The Ethics of War in Asian Civilizations

A Comparative Perspective

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Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2006

This book explores how issues of ethics in war and warfare have been treated by major ethical traditions of Asia. It opens a discussion about whether there are universal standards in the ideologies of warfare between the major religious traditions of the world. While the chapters are written...
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Gendered Encounters between Germany and Asia

Transnational Perspectives since 1800

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Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016

This volume provides new insights into gendered interactions over the past two centuries between Germany and Asia, including India, China, Japan, and previously overlooked Asian countries including Vietnam, the Philippines, Thailand, and Korea. This volume presents scholarship from academics working...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018

This collection explores the interpretation of historical fiction through fictional representations of the past in an Asian context. Emphasising the significance of region and locality, it explores local networks of political and cultural exchanges at the heart of an Asian polity. The book considers how...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017

The Routledge Handbook of Asian Security Studies provides a detailed exploration of security dynamics in the three distinct subregions that comprise Asia, and also bridges the study of these regions by exploring the geopolitical links between each of them. The Handbook is divided into four...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016

What do the major states of Asia view as the emerging challenges in their immediate security environment as well as in the broader Asian region? What future security outcomes would make them believe that strategic stability had been achieved in the Asian continent? Central to the latter question is...
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by Lee Geok Boi
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013

Seafood is one of the most eaten types of food in Asia. Featuring over 40 mouth watering recipes, Delicious Asian Seafood Recipes is sure to be a hit in your kitchen. This cookbook contains easy step-by-step instructions for all of your favorite seafood dishes from Asia. Inside are recipes to prepare...
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by Ellen Argyriou
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013

Asian Recipe Perfection contains simple, delicious recipes that anyone can make. From vegetable saffron samosas to the rum and lime banana fritters, this collection covers a multitude of healthy Asian meals packed full of flavour. Each recipe comes with fully illustrated, easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions.
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Central Asian Cultures, Arts, and Architecture

Inner Eurasia from Prehistory to the Medieval Golden Ages

by Ardi Kia
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018

Central Asia Cultures, Arts, and Architecture presents a journey through time, analyzing the history of Central Asian cultures, arts, and architecture since prehistoric times. It includes documentation of historical, cultural, artistic, and architectural accomplishments, and combines writings based...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 1997

The essays in Formations of Colonial Modernity in East Asia challenge the idea that notions of modernity and colonialism are mere imports from the West, and show how colonial modernity has evolved from and into unique forms throughout Asia. Although the modernity of non-European colonies is as indisputable...
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by Rhoads Murphey, Kristin Stapleton
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019

A History of Asia is the only textbook to provide a historical overview of the whole of this region, encompassing India, China, Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia. Engaging and lively, it chronicles the complex political, social, and intellectual histories of the area from prehistory to the present...
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by Marc Jason Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017

Few regions have shaped the world's history as deeply as South Asia. The birthplace of three of the world's major religions-Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism-the Indian subcontinent has made indelible contributions to the world, from foods such as curry and granulated sugar to the performance of meditation...
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by Kenneth Conboy
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2012

Elite units have long been prominent in the armies of South-East Asia and, given the turmoil in the region since the 1960s, these forces have had ample opportunity to be tested in combat. Acknowledged expert on South-East Asia Ken Conboy outlines the history, organization and insignia of Vietnamese,...
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A Brief History of Khubilai Khan

Lord of Xanadu, Founder of the Yuan Dynasty, Emperor of China

by Jonathan Clements
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015

His grandfather was the bloodthirsty Mongol leader Genghis Khan, his mother a Christian princess. Groomed from childhood for a position of authority, Khubilai snatched the position of Great Khan, becoming the overlord of a Mongol federation that stretched from the Balkans to the Korean coast. His...
Cover of Asian History
by IntroBooks
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016

The significance of the study of the history of Asia requires no exceptional prominence, principally with the rise of China, India and Japan as main supremacies of this continent. The Asian history could be seen as the combined history of many diverse outlying littoral regions such as, South Asia,...
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