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The Merchants of Siberia
Trade in Early Modern Eurasia
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
In The Merchants of Siberia, Erika Monahan reconsiders commerce in early modern Russia by reconstructing the trading world of Siberia and the careers of merchants who traded there. She follows the histories of three merchant families from various social ranks who conducted trade in Siberia for well...
Manchus and Han
Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing and Early Republican China, 1861-1928
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
China�s 1911�12 Revolution, which overthrew a 2000-year succession of dynasties, is thought of primarily as a change in governmental style, from imperial to republican, traditional to modern. But given that the dynasty that was overthrown�the Qing�was that of a minority ethnic group that had...
by Nyla Ali Khan
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Since Deng Xiaoping instituted economic reforms under the "reform and open" policy in 1978, the Chinese Communist Party has overseen a gradualist approach to modernizing China's economy....
Oil, Islam, and Conflict
Central Asia since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
The Taliban is resurgent in Afghanistan while Chechnya still struggles under a shadow of violence, and the nations surrounding them are barely more stable. Add in the significant reserves scattered throughout Central Asia and you have a volatile political cocktail that makes the region, in Rob Johnson’s...
by Norman E. Saul
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
The conduct of the foreign relations of the Russian state in its several contexts—Kiev Rus, Muscovy, Russian Empire, Provisional Government, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and Russian Federation—were unique in its common currents from the beginning to the present. Geography was certainly...
by Albert Meltzer, Wat Tyler
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
The republication of Albert Meltzer's The Origins of the Anarchist Movement in China is a major event. Outside of The Origins . . . Robert A. Scalapino and George T. Yu’s The Chinese Anarchist Movement (which does not go beyond the early 1920s, stopping short of the Shanghai Commune) and Olga Lang’s...
Okinawan Martial Traditions, Vol. 2.2
Te, Tode, Karate, Karatedo, Kobudo
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
NOTE: Volume 2 of the print edition was dividend into Vols. 2.1 and 2.2 to make two e-book editions.
What would you like to obtain from your research and practice of an Okinawan martial art? For an academic, it would be to obtain historical and cultural facts and details. For a practitioner,...
For the Record
On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Anjali Arondekar considers the relationship between sexuality and the colonial archive by posing the following questions: Why does sexuality (still) seek its truth in the historical archive? What are the spatial and temporal logics that compel such a return? And conversely, what kind of “archive”...
Mapping the Chinese and Islamic Worlds
Cross-Cultural Exchange in Pre-Modern Asia
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Long before Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope en route to India, the peoples of Africa, the Middle East, and Asia engaged in vigorous cross-cultural exchanges across the Indian Ocean. This book focuses on the years 700 to 1500, a period when powerful dynasties governed both regions, to document...
Indian National Security and Counter-Insurgency
The use of force vs non-violent response
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
This book, based on extensive field research, examines the Indian state’s response to the multiple insurgencies that have occurred since independence in 1947.
In reacting to these various insurgencies, the Indian state has employed a combined approach of force, dialogue, accommodation of...
Sri Lanka and the Responsibility to Protect
Politics, Ethnicity and Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
This book provides a study of the war by Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to create a separate state in Sri Lanka. It examines the ways in which this war should, in principle, have invoked ‘Responsibility to Protect’ principles, as well as the political, legal and practical problems involved...
Crime-Terror Nexus in South Asia
States, Security and Non-State Actors
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
This book examines the crime-terror nexus in South Asia, focusing in particular on the activities of non-state actors that operate out of Pakistan, and challenges the conventional wisdom that the Pakistan Taleban (TTP) and Al-Qaeda are Pakistan’s most serious security threats.
Much research...
A Kabuki Reader: History and Performance
History and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Unique in any Western language, this is an invaluable resource for the study of one of the world's great theatrical forms. It includes essays by established experts on Kabuki as well as younger scholars now entering the field, and provides a comprehensive survey of the history of Kabuki; how it is...