Asian category: 13860 books
Changing Visions of East Asia, 1943-93
Transformations and Continuities
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Ralph Smith was a highly respected historian who, at the time of his death in December 2000, had nearly completed a manuscript chronicling changes in the East Asia region since 1943. This fascinating work, completed and edited by Chad Mitcham, one of Ralph Smith’s former students, himself a specialist...
Food and Foodways in Asia
Resource, Tradition and Cooking
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2007
Food is an important cultural marker of identity in contemporary Asian societies, and can provide a medium for the understanding of social relations, family and kinship, class and consumption, gender ideology, and cultural symbolism. However, a truly comprehensive view of food cannot neglect the politics...
The East India Company, 1600-1857
Essays on Anglo-Indian connection
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
This book employs a wide range of perspectives to demonstrate how the East India Company facilitated cross-cultural interactions between the English and various groups in South Asia between 1600 to 1857 and how these interactions transformed important features of both British and South Asian history....
Central Asia and the Caucasus
Transnationalism and Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, a number of linkages have been established between newly independent Central Asian states, or populations within them, and diaspora ethnic groups. This book explores the roles that diaspora communities play in the recent and ongoing emergence of national identities...
The International History of East Asia, 1900-1968
Trade, Ideology and the Quest for Order
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
This book provides a broad account of the international history of East Asia from 1900 to 1968 - a subject that is essential to any understanding of the modern epoch. Whereas much of the scholarship on this subject has focused purely on the immediate origins and consequences of violent events such...
The End of Nomadism?
Society, State, and the Environment in Inner Asia
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Those who herd in the vast grassland region of Inner Asia face a precarious situation as they struggle to respond to the momentous political and economic changes of recent years. In The End of Nomadism? Caroline Humphrey and David Sneath confront the romantic, ahistorical myth of the wandering nomad...
by Quentin Pereira, Robin Pereira
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Growing up, Quentin and his five siblings—no matter what they were doing—were always home on Sunday for lunch and dinner. Those two meals were always cooked by their father, Robin Pereira. Robin took to cooking after his father and brother were killed in action. He did so because his mother went...
Radicals on the Road
Internationalism, Orientalism, and Feminism during the Vietnam Era
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Traveling to Hanoi during the U.S. war in Vietnam was a long and dangerous undertaking. Even though a neutral commission operated the flights, the possibility of being shot down by bombers in the air and antiaircraft guns on the ground was very real. American travelers recalled landing in blackout...
by Edmund Candler, David Leffman
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
In this candid look into Asian colonial supremacy, this account describes what began in December of 1903, when a border dispute escalated amid rumors of a proposed secret alliance between Russia and the religious monarchy at Lhasa. British Colonel Francis Younghusband marched his Indian troops north...
Extreme Poetry
The South Asian Movement of Simultaneous Narration
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Beginning in the sixth century C.E. and continuing for more than a thousand years, an extraordinary poetic practice was the trademark of a major literary movement in South Asia. Authors invented a special language to depict both the apparent and hidden sides of disguised or dual characters, and then...
Boot, Hooves and Wheels
And the Social Dynamics behind South Asian Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
The books title has an apparent misnomer—boots were not used in early armies, at least as apparent from temple sculptures which depict bare-bodied and barefooted soldiers. But is it likely to have been true? Or social reasons led to suppression of footgear on temple walls? The book explores these...
Truth on Trial in Thailand
Defamation, Treason, and Lèse-Majesté
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Since 2005, Thailand has been in crisis, with unprecedented political instability and the worst political violence seen in the country in decades. In the aftermath of a military coup in 2006, Thailand’s press freedom ranking plunged, while arrests for lèse-majesté have skyrocketed to levels unknown...
Women and Society in Early Medieval India
Re-interpreting Epigraphs
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
This book examines women and society in India during 600–1200 CE through epigraphs. It offers an analysis of inscriptional data at the pan-India level to explore key themes, including early marriage, deprivation of girls from education, property rights, widowhood and satī, as well as women in administration...
Moral Nation
Modern Japan and Narcotics in Global History
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
This trailblazing study examines the history of narcotics in Japan to explain the development of global criteria for political legitimacy in nations and empires in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Japan underwent three distinct crises of sovereignty in its modern history: in the 1890s,...