Asia category: 8064 books
A World in Flames
A Short History of the Second World War in Europe and Asia 1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
A concise account of the war - including the war in Asia and the Pacific as well as the European arena. Covers the formation of the victorious Grand Alliance and to the problems that beset it, and to Nazi Germany's relations with its allies.
Photographic Guide to the Birds of Thailand
Including Southeast Asia & the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Tuttle is proud to present the very first comprehensive photographic guide to the birds of mainland Southeast Asia, the Philippines and Borneo. Included are the birds of Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand and Indochina, as well as those found in South China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
This book covers...
The Limits of Alignment
Southeast Asia and the Great Powers since 1975
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
The Limits of Alignment is an engaging and accessible study that explores how small states and middle powers of Southeast Asia ensure their security in a world where they are overshadowed by greater powers. John D. Ciorciari challenges a central concept in international relations theory—that states...
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 David Blocksidge
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Through 160 color photographs and a concise, informative text, this handsome Singapore travel guide and pictorial presents all the excitement of Singapore—its rich colonial past, its ethnic diversity, and its dynamic present.
Located in the heart of Asia, the island republic of Singapore...
by Pilkyu Kim
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
The period following World War II has witnessed numerous international territorial disputes, particularly in Asia and Africa. Even as we enter the twenty-first century, a large number of these territorial disputes over sovereignty remain unresolved and continue to pose significant diplomatic barriers...
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...
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....
by Peter Sluglett, Andrew Currie
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
This Atlas provides the main outlines of Islamic history from the immediate pre-Islamic period until the end of 1920, that is, before most parts of the Muslim world became sovereign nation states.
Each map is accompanied by a text that contextualises, explains, and expands upon the map, and...
Blood Ties and the Native Son
Poetics of Patronage in Kyrgyzstan
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
A pioneering study of kinship, patronage, and politics in Central Asia, Blood Ties and the Native Son tells the story of the rise and fall of a man called Rahim, an influential and powerful patron in rural northern Kyrgyzstan, and of how his relations with clients and kin shaped the economic and social...
Look East, Cross Black Waters
India's Interest in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
India’s core goals for Southeast Asia are in basic harmony with those of the United States, including regional stability, peaceful settlement of territorial disputes, and containment of radicalism Still, America should not expect India to enter any sort of alliance, nor join any coalition to balance...
Political Organization in Central Asia and Azerbaijan
Sources and Documents
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
This work contains a selection of annotated documents, including party platforms and declarations of the major political groupings in the Islamic republics of the former Soviet Union. The book covers primarily the period from 1991 to 1994, which can be characterized as the first stage in the formation...
Food Culture in Colonial Asia
A Taste of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Presenting a social history of colonial food practices in India, Malaysia and Singapore, this book discusses the contribution that Asian domestic servants made towards the development of this cuisine between 1858 and 1963. Domestic cookbooks, household management manuals, memoirs, diaries and travelogues...
Visits to High Tartary, Yârkand, and Kâshghar (Formerly Chinese Tartary).
And Return Journey over the Karakoram Pass.
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Replica of 1871 edition by John Murray, London.
Elibron Classics. Oversize maps are available as a free download.
With illustrations.
The captivating travel narrative chronicling the author’s journey through Central Asia.
Robert Shaw, the author of this work was an unlikely explorer,...