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Sea Power and the Asia-Pacific
The Triumph of Neptune?
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
With particular focus on the Asia-Pacific region, this book examines the rise and fall of sea powers.
In the Asia-Pacific region there has been significant expansion of sea-based economies together with burgeoning naval power. Many claim that these processes will transform the world’s future...
The Sugar Plantation in India and Indonesia
Industrial Production, 1770–2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
European markets almost exclusively relied on Caribbean sugar produced by slave labor until abolitionist campaigns began around 1800. Thereafter, importing Asian sugar and transferring plantation production to Asia became a serious option for the Western world. In this book, Ulbe Bosma details how...
Hindu Mahasabha in Colonial North India, 1915-1930
Constructing Nation and History
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Hindu nationalism has emerged as a political ideology represented by the Hindu Mahasabha. This book explores the campaign for Hindu unity and organisation in the context of the Hindu-Muslim conflict in colonial north India in the early twentieth century. It argues that India's partition in 1947 was...
Modern Korea and Its Others
Perceptions of the Neighbouring Countries and Korean Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
The period spanning the 1880s to 1945 was a crucially important formative time for Korea, during which understandings of modernity were largely shaped by the images of Korea’s neighbours to the east, west and north. China, Japan and Russia represented at some moments modern threats, but also denoted...
China and the World since 1945
An International History
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The emergence of China as a dominant regional power with global influence is a significant phenomenon in the twenty-first century. Its origin could be traced back to 1949 when the Chinese Communist Party under Mao Zedong came to power and vowed to transform China and the world. After the ‘century...
Early Modern China and Northeast Asia
Cross-Border Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
In this revisionist history of early modern China, Evelyn Rawski challenges the notion of Chinese history as a linear narrative of dynasties dominated by the Central Plains and Hans Chinese culture from a unique, peripheral perspective. Rawski argues that China has been shaped by its relations with...
Central Asia
One Hundred Thirty Years of Russian Dominance, A Historical Overview
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 1995
For centuries, Central Asia has been a leading civilization, an Islamic heartland, and a geographical link between West and East. After a long traditional history, it is now in a state of change. With the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, five newborn Central Asian states have emerged in place...
Document Raj
Writing and Scribes in Early Colonial South India
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Historians of British colonial rule in India have noted both the place of military might and the imposition of new cultural categories in the making of Empire, but Bhavani Raman, in Document Raj, uncovers a lesser-known story of power: the power of bureaucracy. Drawing on extensive archival research...
Islamic Central Asia
An Anthology of Historical Sources
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
Islamic Central Asia is the first English-language anthology of primary documents for the study of Central Asian history. Scott C. Levi and Ron Sela draw from a vast array of historical sources to illustrate important aspects of the social, cultural, political, and economic history of Islamic Central...
Heritage Management in Korea and Japan
The Politics of Antiquity and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Imperial tombs, Buddhist architecture, palaces, and art treasures in Korea and Japan have attracted scholars, collectors, and conservators�and millions of tourists. As iconic markers of racial and cultural identity at home and abroad, they are embraced as tangible sources of immense national pride...
Diplomatic Style and Foreign Policy
A Case Study of South Korea
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
The book explores diplomatic style and its use as a means to provide analytical insight into a state’s foreign policy, with a specific focus on South Korea.
Diplomatic style attracts scant attention from scholars. It is dismissed as irrelevant in the context of diplomacy’s universalism;...
China's Rising Sea Power
The PLA Navy's Submarine Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
This is a fascinating insight into China’s strategic abilities and ambitions, probing the real depths of its plans for the twenty-first century.
China's Rising Sea Power explores similarities between China’s strategic outlook today and that of earlier continental powers whose submarine...
by E. B. Sledge
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
From the respected author of one of the best books on World War II combat, comes an equally captivating saga of battle recovery, healing, and homecoming.
China Marine is the long-awaited sequel to E. B. Sledge’s critically acclaimed memoir, With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa. Picking...
Perilous Missions
Civil Air Transport and CIA Covert Operations in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Civil Air Transport (CAT), founded in China after World War II by Claire Chennault and Whiting Willauer, was initially a commercial carrier specializing in air freight. Its role quickly changed as CAT became first a paramilitary adjunct of the Nationalist Chinese Air Force, then the CIA's secret "air...