Asia category: 8064 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
This important report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Despite four decades of astonishing economic growth, China's authoritarian government remains firmly entrenched in power. This fact challenges modernization theory, which anticipates...
The First Anglo-Afghan Wars
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Designed for classroom use, The First Anglo-Afghan Wars gathers in one volume primary source materials related to the first two wars that Great Britain launched against native leaders of the Afghan region. From 1839 to 1842, and again from 1878 to 1880, Britain fought to expand its empire and prevent...
Decolonising Heritage in South Asia
The Global, the National and the Transnational
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2018
This volume cross-examines the stability of heritage as a concept. It interrogates the past which materialises through multi-layered narratives on monuments and other objects that sustain cultural diversity. It seeks to understand how interpretations of “monuments” as “texts” are affected...
by Marcello Anglana
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 28, 2012
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 28, 2012
Si può attraversare il continente più grande, l’Asia, per 25.000 km e 40 giorni, percorrendo strade spesso in condizioni disastrose con una moto prettamente stradale di undici anni e con 600.000 km sotto le ruote? Da soli, senza assistenza al seguito, con un solo treno di gomme, arrivando fino...
Secret Trades, Porous Borders
Smuggling and States Along a Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865-1915
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Over the course of the half century from 1865 to 1915, the British and Dutch delineated colonial spheres, in the process creating new frontiers. This book analyzes the development of these frontiers in Insular Southeast Asia as well as the accompanying smuggling activities of the opium traders, currency...
by Nejla Demirkaya
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject History - Asia, grade: 1,3, University of Göttingen (Centre for Modern Indian Studies), course: Health and Medicine in South Asia: A Historical Perspective, 1750-1950, language: English, abstract: Even to modern scientists, certain aspects of leprosy...
Cold War Encounters in US-Occupied Okinawa
Women, Militarized Domesticity, and Transnationalism in East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
In this innovative and engaging study, Mire Koikari recasts the US occupation of Okinawa as a startling example of Cold War cultural interaction in which women's grassroots activities involving homes and homemaking played a pivotal role in reshaping the contours of US and Japanese imperialisms. Drawing...
Sanitized Sex
Regulating Prostitution, Venereal Disease, and Intimacy in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Sanitized Sex analyzes the development of new forms of regulation concerning prostitution, venereal disease, and intimacy during the American occupation of Japan after the Second World War, focusing on the period between 1945 and 1952. It contributes to the cultural and social history of the occupation...
by Thant Myint-U
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 19, 2015
"Myanmar. Dove la Cina incontra l'India" è un diario di viaggio che accompagna in una delle più strategiche zone di confine del mondo, quel crocevia asiatico che si sviluppa "nel nord del Myanmar (ex Birmania), verso il sud-ovest della Cina e il nord-est dell'India, [...] regioni...
by Larry Stein
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
Using over two hundred color pictures, this guidebook illustrates the charm and adventure of traveling to Cambodia and Myanmar. The guide is aimed at the cost conscious, but not the cost adverse. "A Traveler on a Rope" is neither traveling on a shoestring, nor toting, or having another tote,...
Asian States
Beyond the Developmental Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2005
A team of international leading experts provide a much needed re-examination of the theoretical claims and the empirical foundation of developmental state theory. Asian States argues that regardless of the merits of the developmental state as an explanation of economic growth, it falls far short...
by Robert Kong Chan
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
This book examines the complex relations between Joseon Korea (1392–1910) and Ming/Qing China in history, and reveals their contemporary implications for the nature of a China-dominated order in East Asia and the relations between China and the middle powers in the region. Instead of relying on...
China-Japan Relations in the 21st Century
Antagonism Despite Interdependency
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
This new collection examines the paradox of Sino-Japanese relations and the rising diplomatic antagonism between both countries despite deepening economic interdependency. Offering a unique perspective on the history of bilateral ties since diplomatic normalization in 1972, it considers the growing...
Family Fun in Thailand
The best tourist attractions in the most popular holiday destinations in Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Family Fun in Thailand is a must-have travel guide for everyone holidaying in Thailand with children. Over 120 attractions are listed in some of Thailand’s most popular and beautiful towns and cities, together with important information about costs, directions, and content.
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