Asian category: 13860 books
by Thanet Aphornsuvan, Richard L. Benkin, Melissa Kerr Chiovenda
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
South and Southeast Asia continue to be extremely critical regions, deeply intertwined and bound in many ways by centuries of intersecting histories. As the recent experiences of rapid and transformative political and economic changes in several countries in these two regions illustrate, these changes...
Malay Kingship in Kedah
Religion, Trade, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
The book probes and examines traditional sources of royal power and control, as well as indigenous socio-political systems in the Malay world. It is focused on the north-western Malaysian Sultanate of Kedah which is acknowledged as the oldest unbroken independent kingship line in the ‘Malay and...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Seven informative papers from the Marshall European Center for Security Studies analyze various important military issues:
Western Unity and the Transatlantic Security Challenge * The defining issue of the 21st century will be whether the democratic community can prevent chaos along the strategic...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
This important report from the U.S. Army's Strategic Studies Institute provides the complete history of tactical nuclear weapons starting with the early days of the Cold War, along with unique up-to-date insights into the future of tactical nukes in Europe and Asia.
The role and future of tactical...
by Akiri Tsuneki, Olivier Nieuwenhuyse, Stuart Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Over the past fifty years or so early pottery complexes in the wider region of West Asia have hardly ever been investigated in their own right. Early ceramics have often been unexpected by-products of projects focussing upon much earlier aceramic or later prehistoric periods. In recent years, however,...
Empire and the Meaning of Religion in Northeast Asia
Manchuria 1900–1945
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2016
Manchuria entered the twentieth century as a neglected backwater of the dying Qing dynasty, and within a few short years became the focus of intense international rivalry to control its resources and shape its people. This book examines the place of religion in the development of Manchuria from the...
Terror and Reconciliation
Sri Lankan Anglophone Literature, 1983-2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Terror and Reconciliation explores the English language literature that has emerged from Sri Lanka’s quarter-century long ethnic conflict. It examines poetry, short fiction and novels by both diasporic writers and writers resident in Sri Lanka. Its discussion of resident Sri Lankan writers is particularly...
Japanese Confucianism
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
For more than 1500 years, Confucianism has played a major role in shaping Japan's history - from the formation of the first Japanese states during the first millennium AD, to Japan's modernization in the nineteenth century, to World War II and its still unresolved legacies across East Asia today....
Culture and Identity
Re-reading Raja Rao and Mulk Raj Anand
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
The most striking feature of the book (Culture and Identity, Re-reading Raja Rao and Mulk Raj Anand) is its fresh take on Raja Rao and Mulk Raj Anand. Beyond the conventional, canonical critical approaches that usually estimate these authors from social, philosophical perspectives, the book takes...
Interrogating The Canon
Literature and Pedagogy of Dalits
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Interrogating the Canon: Literature and Pedagogy of Dalits is a collection of research articles written on different occasions primarily exploring the alternative histories of language and literature informed by the postcolonial thrust of interrogating the canon. Though varied in themes, the running...
Pandita Ramabai
Life and landmark writings
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
This book looks at the life of Pandita Ramabai, one of the major social reformers of 19th-century India. Her unique life trajectory spanned across a pan-Indian, orthodox Hindu mould to being part of Brahmo Samaj and Prarthana Samaj, and further to Christianity. At the age of 30 she had travelled widely...
Haj to Utopia
How the Ghadar Movement Charted Global Radicalism and Attempted to Overthrow the British Empire
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
In Haj to Utopia, Maia Ramnath tells the dramatic story of Ghadar, the Indian anticolonial movement that attempted overthrow of the British Empire. Founded by South Asian immigrants in California, Ghadar—which is translated as "mutiny"—quickly became a global presence in East Asia, Europe,...
Radical Politics in Colonial Punjab
Governance and Sedition
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
The actions of the radical left in Punjab in pre-Independence India during the 1920s and 30s have often been viewed as foreign and quintessentially un-Indian due to their widely vilified opposition to the Quit India campaign. This book examines some of these deterministic misapprehensions and establishes...
The Origin of Modern Shinto in Japan
The Vanquished Gods of Izumo
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Yijiang Zhong analyses the formation of Shinto as a complex and diverse religious tradition in early modern and Meiji Japan, 1600-1868. Highlighting the role of the god Okuninushi and the mythology centered on the Izumo Shrine in western Japan as part of this process, he shows how and why this god...