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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
This book presents extensive new research findings on and new thinking about Southeast Asia in this interesting, richly diverse, but much understudied period. It examines the wide and well-developed trading networks, explores the different kinds of regimes and the nature of power and security, considers...
Asia
A Concise History
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
From one of the world's leading historians?a comprehensive narrative of the 3,000 years that have formed Asia's people, culture, and global destiny
Tracing its origins in Mesopotamia to its modern role on the global geopolitical stage, historian Arthur Cotterell offers a compelling, lively,...
by Peter B. Golden
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
A vast region stretching roughly from the Volga River to Manchuria and the northern Chinese borderlands, Central Asia has been called the "pivot of history," a land where nomadic invaders and Silk Road traders changed the destinies of states that ringed its borders, including pre-modern...
A Short History of China and Southeast Asia
Tribute, Trade and Influence
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2003
China, the world's most populous nation, has always exerted great influence on the traditional kingdoms and modern states of Southeast Asia. Today, history and culture continue to shape the modern relationship.
In this concise volume, Martin Stuart-Fox charts the history of relations between...
Modern South Asia
History, Culture, Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Drawing on the newest historical research and scholarship in the field, Modern South Asia provides challenging insights into the history of this fascinating region over the past three centuries. Jointly authored by two leading Indian and Pakistani historians, it offers a rare depth of historical understanding...
by IntroBooks
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
The significance of the study of the history of Asia requires no exceptional prominence, principally with the rise of China, India and Japan as main supremacies of this continent.
The Asian history could be seen as the combined history of many diverse outlying littoral regions such as, South Asia,...
Tournament of Shadows
The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
From the romantic conflicts of the Victorian Great Game to the war-torn history of the region in recent decades, Tournament of Shadows traces the struggle for control of Central Asia and Tibet from the 1830s to the present. The original Great Game, the clandestine struggle between Russia and Britain...
From the Ruins of Empire
The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
A surprising, gripping narrative depicting the thinkers whose ideas shaped contemporary China, India, and the Muslim world
A little more than a century ago, as the Japanese navy annihilated the giant Russian one at the Battle of Tsushima, original thinkers across Asia, working independently,...
The Mekong
Turbulent Past, Uncertain Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
**A “remarkable” history of the great river of Southeast Asia (**Jill Ker Conway, author of The Road from Coorain).
The Mekong River runs over nearly three thousand miles, beginning in the mountains of Tibet and flowing through China, Burma, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam before...
Exploring Southeast Asia
A traveller's history of the region
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Southeast Asia is a tantalising part of the world. The region has undergone dramatic changes during its long and colourful history, and is marked by enormous cultural, geographical and political diversity.
From the grandeur of the 'classical' years through the transformations that accompanied...
Blood Brothers
Crime, Business and Politics in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
All over Asia bankers, gangsters, government officials and intelligence agents interact while organised crime networks threaten the rest of the world.
Chinese gangs run Chinatowns all over the United States and Europe; Vietnamese mobsters have taken over the heroin trade to Australia; Russian...
Arc of Empire
America's Wars in Asia from the Philippines to Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Although conventionally treated as separate, America's four wars in Asia were actually phases in a sustained U.S. bid for regional dominance, according to Michael H. Hunt and Steven I. Levine. This effort unfolded as an imperial project in which military power and the imposition of America's political...
Assessing Maritime Disputes in East Asia
Political and Legal Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Combining practical and theoretical approaches, this book addresses the political, legal and economic implications of maritime disputes in East Asia.
The maritime disputes in East Asia have multiplied over the past few years, in parallel with the economic growth of the countries in the region,...
The End of the Asian Century
War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World's Most Dynamic Region
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
An urgently needed “risk map” of the many dangers that could derail Asia’s growth and stability
Since Marco Polo, the West has waited for the “Asian Century.” Today, the world believes that Century has arrived. Yet from China’s slumping economy to war clouds over the South China...