Asia category: 8064 books
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...
Medical Education in East Asia
Past and Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Pivotal to Asia’s future will be the robustness of its medical universities. Lessons learned in the past and the challenges facing these schools in the future are outlined in this collection, which offers valuable insights for other medical education systems as well. The populations in these rapidly...
Asia Inside Out
Itinerant People
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2019
In the final volume of Asia Inside Out, a stellar interdisciplinary team of scholars shows the ways that itinerant groups criss-crossing the continent have transformed their culture and surroundings. Going beyond time and place, which animated the first two books, this third one looks at human beings on the move.
Making Borders in Modern East Asia
The Tumen River Demarcation, 1881–1919
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Until the late nineteenth century, the Chinese-Korean Tumen River border was one of the oldest, and perhaps most stable, state boundaries in the world. Spurred by severe food scarcity following a succession of natural disasters, from the 1860s, countless Korean refugees crossed the Tumen River border...
by Alan T. Wood
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Taking a comparative approach, Alan T. Wood traces the evolution of democracy from its origins in prehistoric times and describes democratic growth in thirteen Asian countries from Japan in East Asia to Pakistan in South Asia and examines key issues such as:
* How does the democratic experience...
A Chilli too far
Comparing Ideas and Massage Parlours in SE Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
The way in which we understand and appreciate the world will affect our whole approach to life. Over the last century physical science has shown that the cosmos is quite different from what was previously thought. It is far more stimulating and complex. This book describes how, over the centuries,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2018
This important December 2017 report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
This study examines key factors that may help the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) establish a new province, or front, within Southeast Asia. It poses the questions:...
No Man's Land
Globalization, Territory, and Clandestine Groups in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The increased ability of clandestine groups to operate with little regard for borders or geography is often taken to be one of the dark consequences of a brave new globalized world. Yet even for terrorists and smugglers, the world is not flat; states exert formidable control over the technologies...
History of Africa, Asia and Australia
A Concise Outline
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Jack J. Kanski presents concise, illustrated histories covering a range of historical periods and providing readers with key information about events and people that have shaped the history of the world. In History of Africa, Asia and Australia, Kanski offers readers key information on the history...
Order at the Bazaar
Power and Trade in Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Order at the Bazaar delves into the role of bazaars in the political economy and development of Central Asia. Bazaars are the economic bedrock for many throughout the region—they are the entrepreneurial hubs of Central Asia. However, they are often regarded as mafia-governed environments that are...
by Penglin Wang
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
In Linguistic Mysteries of Ethnonyms in Inner Asia, Penglin Wang focuses on semantics as a central theme in onomastics and strives to unravel the origin and meaning of a series of influential ethnonyms such as Xianbei, Rouran, Tabγač, Tatar, Shiwei, Mongol, Merkid, Nüzhen, Jušen, and Nikan. Since...
Imperial Military Transportation in British Asia
Burma 1941-1942
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Imperial Military Transportation in British Asia sheds light on attempts by royal engineers to introduce innovations devised in the UK to wartime India, Iraq, and Burma, as well as the initial resistance of local groups of colonial railwaymen to such metropolitan innovations.
Michael W. Charney...
Conjuring Asia
Magic, Orientalism, and the Making of the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
The promise of magic has always commanded the human imagination, but the story of industrial modernity is usually seen as a process of disenchantment. Drawing on the writings and performances of the so-called 'Golden Age Magicians' from the turn of the twentieth century, Chris Goto-Jones unveils the...
by Eric Tremolada Álvarez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Es en Bangkok, Tailandia, en el marco de una serie de ciclos académicos realizados entre el 11 y 16 de diciembre de 2013, donde encontraremos la génesis de este libro. Una suma de esfuerzos enmarcados en el Plan de Promoción de Colombia en el Exterior, que coordina la Dirección de Asuntos Culturales...