Asia category: 8064 books
by Nordin Hussin, Uqbah Iqbal, Ahmad Ali Seman
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2014 in the subject History - Asia, National University of Malaysia, course: History, language: English, abstract: The development of the Malaysian economy currently inherited from the previous three levels, beginning with the level of growth and rapid development...
The Longest Journey
Southeast Asians and the Pilgrimage to Mecca
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
The pilgrimage to Mecca, or Hajj, has been a yearly phenomenon of great importance in Muslim lands for well over one thousand years. Each year, millions of pilgrims from throughout the Dar al-Islam, or Islamic world, stretching from Morocco east to Indonesia, make the trip to Mecca as one of the five...
Belonging across the Bay of Bengal
Religious Rites, Colonial Migrations, National Rights
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Belonging across the Bay of Bengal discusses themes connecting the regions bordering the Bay of Bengal, mainly covering the period from the mid-19th through the mid-20th centuries – a crucial period of transition from colonialism to independence. Focusing on the notion of 'belonging', the chapters...
Lines of the Nation
Indian Railway Workers, Bureaucracy, and the Intimate Historical Self
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2007
Lines of the Nation radically recasts the history of the Indian railways, which have long been regarded as vectors of modernity and economic prosperity. From the design of carriages to the architecture of stations, employment hierarchies, and the construction of employee housing, Laura Bear explores...
Into Tibet
The CIA's First Atomic Spy and His Secret Expedition to Lhasa
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
A “fascinating” story of espionage that “fills a blank space in the hidden history of the Cold War” (Houston Chronicle).
Into Tibet is the incredible story of a 1949–1950 American undercover expedition led by America’s first atomic agent, Douglas S. Mackiernan—a covert attempt...
China's Workers Under Assault: Exploitation and Abuse in a Globalizing Economy
Exploitation and Abuse in a Globalizing Economy
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This important book contains case studies with substantive analysis of Chinese workers in a variety of settings: state enterprises, urban collectives, township and village enterprises, domestic private enterprises, and foreign funded enterprises. The cases include urban workers migrant workers from...
The Origins of the Civil War in Tajikistan
Nationalism, Islamism, and Violent Conflict in Post-Soviet Space
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
In May 1992 political and social tensions in the former Soviet Republic of Tajikistan escalated to a devastating civil war, which killed approximately 40,000-100,000 people and displaced more than one million. The enormous challenge of the Soviet Union’s disintegration compounded by inner-elite...
by TJ Davis
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Come delve into a little-known country of rickshaws, poverty, and brutal dictatorship: Myanmar. TJ Davis' job as an international teacher allowed him to explore Southeast Asia for years. See what it's like to live in a country as it takes its first tentative steps into becoming a democracy...
Singapore Correspondent
Political Dispatches from Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Singapore Correspondent is a collection of eye-witness dispatches, sent from Singapore to London, of five years of Singapore’s colourful political past. They cover a period of living turbulently and sometimes dangerously too. This was a time in the mid-1950s and early-1960s when Singapore was emerging...
Revival: The Land of Timur (1932)
Recollections of Russian Turkestan
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Alexander Alexandrovich Polovtsov recants his journey across central Asia with illustrations.
by Pouyan Shekarloo
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2010
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject History - Asia, grade: B+ (2), The American Central University (Department of History), course: Colloquium in 19. Century European History , language: English, abstract: The first movement associated with Russian Nationalism was that of the Slavophiles....
by Uqbah Iqbal
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2015 in the subject History - Asia, National University of Malaysia, course: History, language: English, abstract: Japan is the largest foreign investor in Indonesia at the end of June 1960 with a value of US $3.9 billion invested in 202 projects. Secretary-General...
Travel the World and Explore for Less than $50 a Day, the Essential Guide:
Your Budget Backpack Global Adventure, from Two Weeks to a Gap Year, Solo or with Friends
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Travel the World and Explore is the essential guide to traveling the world and exploring new destinations for less than $50 a day (GBP £36, Euro €43, AUD $69, NZD $72 or CAD $65). For the solo backpacker or with friends this up-to-date practical guide will save you time and money with ideas, and...
Dancing on the Frontier
Travels by Land Through China and Tibet
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
'This is a memoir of a year I spent off the beaten track in China. From the Pacific coast to the dusty heart of Central Asia, I travelled 10,000 miles through virtually every region of that vast country. My backpacking adventures were much more than just a young mans solitary wanderings. I taught...