Asia category: 8064 books
Arguing about the World
The Work and Legacy of Meghnad Desai
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Meghnad Desai is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the LSE. He
is founder of LSE Global Governance. From 1990-1995 he was Director of
LSE's Development Studies Institute and has been at the LSE for over 30
years. In 1991, Meghnad Desai was created Lord Desai of St Clement
Danes. His latest book is...
Constructing the Uzbek State
Narratives of Post-Soviet Years
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Over the past three decades, Uzbekistan has attracted the attention of the academic and policy communities because of its geostrategic importance, its critical role in shaping or unshaping Central Asia as a region, its economic and trade potential, and its demographic weight: every other Central Asian...
It's a World of Beautiful Madness
My outrageous backpacking adventure
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
It was madness from the moment I left.
Every year thousands of people leave to travel the world. Not everyone has the same experience. I spent my student loan on a ticket around the world. I was out of the country straight after graduation. I left London for Bangkok with Rory and James, my...
The Last Barbarians
The Discovery Of The Source Of The Mekong In Tibet
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
More than thirty years ago, Michael Peisel's classic, Mustang: A Lost Tibetan Kingdom, introduced the world to a region more isolated than the deepest Amazon. Against the odds--and in the tradition of the nineteenth-century explorers of whom he is a direct descendant--Peissel has combed Tibet for...
The Politics of Self-Expression
The Urdu Middleclass Milieu in Mid-Twentieth Century India and Pakistan
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
The 1930s to 1950s witnessed the rise and dominance of a political culture across much of North India which combined unprecedented levels of mobilization and organization with an effective de-politicization of politics. On the one hand obsessed with world events, people also came to understand politics...
by Sophie Ibbotson, Max Lovell-Hoare
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Tajikistan is Central Asia's smallest and least understood country. Epic mountain landscapes, glacial lakes and the mighty Oxus River encircle ancient Buddhist sites, Silk Road trading posts, medieval shrines and planned Soviet cities. The guide includes tried and tested trekking routes in the Fann,...
Colonizing Language
Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
With the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in 1894, Japan embarked on a policy of territorial expansion that would claim Taiwan and Korea, among others. Assimilation policies led to a significant body of literature written in Japanese by colonial writers by the 1930s. After its unconditional surrender...
by Fodor's Travel Guides
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Ready to experience China? The experts at Fodor’s are here to help. Fodor’s Essential China travel guide is packed with customizable itineraries with top recommendations, detailed maps of China, and exclusive tips from locals. Whether you want to climb the Great Wall, explore the Forbidden City,...
Tajikistan on the Move
Statebuilding and Societal Transformations
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
The southernmost and poorest state of the Eurasian space, Tajikistan collapsed immediately upon the fall of the Soviet Union and plunged into a bloody five-year civil war (1992–1997) that left more than 50,000 people dead and more than half a million displaced. After the 1997 Peace Agreements, Tajikistan...
by Abraham Benhur
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
There are two unresolved mysteries in history. One is the disappearance of the ten Israelite tribes that the Assyrians had enslaved and transported to their lands and put them to slave for the empire. They eventually disappeared from history, and the Bible refers to them as the ‘Lost People’.
The...
by Michael Buckley
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
This new, thoroughly updated edition of Bradt's Tibet encompasses the wider region of ethnic Tibet with more detailed coverage of the Amdo and Kham regions than is found in other guides. It also includes essential information on new border openings and is particularly strong on map data, which is...
by Nordin Hussin, Uqbah Iqbal, Ahmad Ali Seman
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2014 in the subject History - Asia, National University of Malaysia, course: History, language: English, abstract: This study will analyze the historical development of Malay nationalism against Western powers, particularly the British in Malaya before...
The Life of Alimqul
A Native Chronicle of Nineteenth Century Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
This work studies a narrative devoted to the history of the Kokand Khanate, a state that played a great role in Central Asian history in the 18th and 19th centuries, controlling territory equal to continental western Europe, until it was conquered by the Russian Empire in 1876. This unique manuscript,...
Thailands Indochina Travel Guide
Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
THAILAND LAOS CAMBODIA VIETNAM THAILAND 2011 - 2015 Overview Among the reasons for the increase in tourism in the 1960s were the stable political atmosphere and the development of Bangkok as a crossroads of international air transportation. The hotel industry and retail industry both expanded rapidly...