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by Kaushik Roy, Sourish Saha
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
This volume traces the historical roots and evolution of insurgencies and counter-insurgencies in modern Asia. Focusing on armed rebellions and use of armed forces by both Western powers and indigenous states from the nineteenth century till present day, the volume unravels the problematic of change–continuity...
New Perspectives on the History and Historiography of Southeast Asia
Continuing Explorations
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2011
Using a unique "old–new" treatment, this book presents new perspectives on several important topics in Southeast Asian history and historiography. Based on original, primary research, it reinterprets and revises several long-held conventional views in the field, covering the period from the "classical"...
by Anthony Reid
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1999
In this volume, Anthony Reid positions Southeast Asia on the stage of world history. He argues that the region not only had a historical character of its own, but that it played a crucial role in shaping the modern world.
Southeast Asia’s interaction with the forces uniting and transforming...
Understanding Central Asia
Politics and Contested Transformations
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
Since Soviet collapse, the independent republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan have faced tremendous political, economic, and security challenges. Focusing on these five republics, this textbook analyzes the contending understandings of the politics of the past,...
Asia's New Multilateralism
Cooperation, Competition, and the Search for Community
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2009
Traditionally, stability in Asia has relied on America's bilateral alliances with Japan, Australia, and the Republic of Korea. Yet in recent years, emergent and more active multilateral forums-such as the Six-Party Talks on North Korea and the East Asia Summit-have taken precedence, engendering both...
Between Compliance and Conflict
East Asia, Latin America and the "New" Pax Americana
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This book examines the responses to U.S. power in the two areas of the world where U.S. primacy was first successfully consolidated: East Asia and Latin America. The U.S. has faced no comparably powerful challengers to the exercise of its power in Latin America for much of the past century. It established...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2000
Containing more information on Asian culture than any other English-language reference work, Columbia Chronologies of Asian History and Culture is the first of its kind: a set of more than thirty chronologies for all the countries of Asia—East, South, Southeast, and Central—from the Paleolithic...
Multilateral Asian Security Architecture
Non-ASEAN Stakeholders
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
This book provides a comparative assessment of the material and ideational contributions of five countries to the regional architecture of post-Cold War Asia.
In contrast to the usual emphasis placed on the role and centrality of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Asia’s...
The New Global Politics of the Asia-Pacific
Conflict and Cooperation in the Asian Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Now in its new and fully updated third edition, The New Global Politics of the Asia Pacific continues to provide a compelling analysis of a region undergoing dramatic changes. Based on new research and offering fresh interpretation, this edition evaluates the prospects for continuing US dominance...
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 Bronze Age Civilization of Central Asia
Recent Soviet Discoveries
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
The Bronze Age Civilization of Central Asia edited by Philip L. Kohl collates translated articles from soviet findings of Bronze Age and Aenolithic remains in Central Asia. Originally published in 1981, these articles include the latest discoveries at the time of publication such as the Murghab Delta...
Limited War in South Asia
From Decolonization to Recent Times
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
This book examines the origins, courses and consequences of conventional wars in post-colonial South Asia.
Although South Asia has experienced large-scale conventional warfare on several occasions since the end of World War II, there is an almost total neglect of analysis of conventional warfare...
Early Navigation in the Asia-Pacific Region
A Maritime Archaeological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
This book presents the proceedings of the international academic workshop on “Early Navigation in the Asia-Pacific Region: A Maritime Archaeological Perspective” held from June 21-23, 2013 at Harvard University campus and organized by Harvard-Yenching Institute. It includes high-quality papers...
The Scottish Experience in Asia, c.1700 to the Present
Settlers and Sojourners
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
This pioneering volume focuses on the scale, territorial trajectories, impact, economic relationships, identity and nature of the Scottish-Asia connection from the late seventeenth century to the present. It is especially concerned with identifying whether there was a distinctive Scottish experience...