Asia category: 8064 books
A Distant Sovereignty
National Imperialism and the Origins of British India
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
In this broad study of British rule in India during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Sudipta Sen takes up this dual agenda, sketching out the interrelationships between nationalism, imperialism, and identity formation as they played out in both England and South Asia.
The Rise and Fall of Khoqand, 1709-1876
Central Asia in the Global Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
This book analyzes how Central Asians actively engaged with the rapidly globalizing world of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In presenting the first English-language history of the Khanate of Khoqand (1709–1876), Scott C. Levi examines the rise of that extraordinarily dynamic state in the...
by J. Harrington
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2010
Through his writings, the leading East India Company servant, Sir John Malcolm helped to shape the historical thought of British empire-building in India. This book uses his works to examine the intellectual history of British expansion in South Asia, and shed light on the history of orientalism and indirect rule and the formation of British power.
The Art of Medicine in Early China
The Ancient and Medieval Origins of a Modern Archive
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
In this book, Miranda Brown investigates the myths that acupuncturists and herbalists have told about the birth of the healing arts. Moving from the Han (206 BC–AD 220) and Song (960–1279) dynasties to the twentieth century, Brown traces the rich history of Chinese medical historiography and the...
Ming China and Vietnam
Negotiating Borders in Early Modern Asia
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Studies of Sino-Viet relations have traditionally focused on Chinese aggression and Vietnamese resistance, or have assumed out-of-date ideas about Sinicization and the tributary system. They have limited themselves to national historical traditions, doing little to reach beyond the border. Ming China...
Surviving against the Odds
Village Industry in Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2009
Read the foreword by Mara Soetoro-Ng
President Barack Obama’s mother, S. Ann Dunham, was an economic anthropologist and rural development consultant who worked in several countries including Indonesia. Dunham received her doctorate in 1992. She died in 1995, at the age of 52, before having...
by Dirk Van der Cruysse, Michael Smithies (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2002
Ambassadors from Versailles in wigs and lace mounted on elephants crossing rice fields... Siamese mandarins prostrate before the throne of Louis XIV... a Greek adventurer... a scheming French Jesuit— these are just a few of the colourful characters that playa role in the early history...
East Timor, Australia and Regional Order
Intervention and its Aftermath in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2004
This book explains the exceptional nature of the East Timor intervention of 1999, and deals with the background to the trusteeship role of the UN in building the new polity. All of these developments had an important impact on regional order, not least testing the ASEAN norm of 'non-interference'.Australian complicity in the Indonesian occupation o
by Velayutham Saravanan
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
This monograph presents a comprehensive account of environmental history of India and its tribals from the late eighteenth onwards, covering both the colonial and post-colonial periods. The book elaborately discusses the colonial plunder of forest resources up to the introduction of the Forest Act...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this study reviews the performance of the 65th Infantry throughout the Korean war, providing insights not only into the regiment's unique problems but also into the status of the U.S. Army's combat forces during...
by Daniel Brower
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The central argument of this book is that the half-century of Russian rule in Central Asia was shaped by traditions of authoritarian rule, by Russian national interests, and by a civic reform agenda that brought to Turkestan the principles that informed Alexander II's reform policies. This civilizing...
Aboriginal Siberia.
A Study in Social Anthropology. With a Preface by R.R. Marett.
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Elibron Classics. Digitized replica of 1914 edition by The Clarendon Press, Oxford. This is an illustrated edition.
Maria Antonina Czaplicka (October 25, 1884 - May 27, 1921), also referred to as Marya Antonina Czaplicka and Marie Antoinette Czaplicka, was a Polish cultural anthropologist...
Neoliberalizing Spaces in the Philippines
Suburbanization, Transnational Migration, and Dispossession
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Amidst the recent global financial crisis and housing busts in various countries, the Philippines’ booming housing industry has been heralded as “Southeast Asia’s hottest real estate hub” and the saving grace of a supposedly resilient Philippine economy. This growth has been fueled by demand...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Renewed interest in the Asia-Pacific region entails greater U.S. responsibilities and involvement in the area's problems. Of all the issues the United States will face in the region, none may involve as many players; legal, economic, and security interests; intricate considerations; historic implications;...