Asia category: 8064 books
Svay
A Khmer Village in Cambodia
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
May Mayko Ebihara (1934–2005) was the first American anthropologist to conduct ethnographic research in Cambodia. Svay provides a remarkably detailed picture of individual villagers and of Khmer social structure and kinship, agriculture, politics, and religion. The world Ebihara described would...
Educating Monks
Minority Buddhism on China’s Southwest Border
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Most studies of Buddhist communities tend to be limited to villages, individual temple communities, or a single national community. Buddhist monastics, however, cross a number of these different framings: They are part of local communities, are governed through national legal frameworks, and participate...
The Golden Triangle
Inside Southeast Asia's Drug Trade
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
The Golden Triangle region that joins Burma, Thailand, and Laos is one of the global centers of opiate and methamphetamine production. Opportunistic Chinese businessmen and leaders of various armed groups are largely responsible for the manufacture of these drugs. The region is defined by the apparently...
Region, Nation, "Heartland"
Uttar Pradesh in India's Body Politic
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2006
This book interrogates Uttar Pradesh’s identity as India’s “heartland” and unravels the historical processes that have shaped this region. In looking at this constructed identity of the state it argues that UP’s existence as a “region” cannot be taken uncritically as a given, considering...
Medicine, Race and Liberalism in British Bengal
Symptoms of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
This book focuses on the entwinement of politics and medicine and power and knowledge in India during the age of empire. Using the powerful metaphor of ‘pathology’ - the science of the origin, nature, and course of diseases - the author develops and challenges a burgeoning literature on colonial...
Japan's "New Deal" for China
Propaganda Aimed at Americans before Pearl Harbor
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
In the decade leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, at a time when Japan was expanding its influence in Asia, several Japanese institutions set about trying to convince Americans to support Tokyo’s plans and ambitions for China. This book seeks to analyze the original publications produced by...
by Theodore F. Rodenbough
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
First published in the 19th century. Written by a brigadier general from the U.S. The book begins: "In universal history there is no more interesting subject for the consideration of the political student than the record of Russian progress through Central Asia. In one sense this advance is a practical...
by David Jimenez
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Acclaimed by critics around the world, Children of the Monsoon is a tour de force of literary journalism. Haunted by the children he has encountered as a correspondent in Asia, David Jiménez goes back years later to find them—in a kickboxing gym in Thailand, an AIDS-ravaged corner of Cambodia, a refuse...
by Karl Laemmermann
Language: German
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Kambodscha
Südostasien
Golf von Thailand
Thailand
Laos
Vietnam
Phnom Penh
Tonle Sap (See)
Mekong
Angkor
Roluos-Gruppe
Banteay Srei
Preah Vihear
UNESCO-Welterbe
Khmer-Sprache
Konstitutionelle Monarchie
Norodom Sihamoni
Kambodschanischer Riel
Dollar
Nokoreach
Indochinesische Halbinsel
Marschland
Chuor...
Sovereign Women in a Muslim Kingdom
The Sultanahs of Aceh, 1641-1699
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
The Islamic kingdom of Aceh was ruled by queens for half of the 17th century. Was female rule an aberration? Unnatural? A violation of nature, comparable to hens instead of roosters crowing at dawn? Indigenous texts and European sources offer different evaluations. Drawing on both sets of sources,...
by James Wise
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
This introductory book on Thai politics and the rule of law explains why chronically unstable Thailand struggles to mediate and adjudicate its political disputes. It focuses on the continuities between the pre-1932 and post-1932 periods. Since the shift to constitutional monarchy in 1932, the power...
Muslim Rule in Medieval India
Power and Religion in the Delhi Sultanate
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
The Delhi Sultanate ruled northern India for over three centuries. The era, marked by the desecration of temples and construction of mosques from temple-rubble, is for many South Asians a lightning rod for debates on communalism, religious identity and inter-faith conflict. Using Persian and Arabic...
Revival: The Pageant of Persia (1937)
A Record of Travel by Motor in Persia with an Account of its Ancient and Modern Ways
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
It is the dawn of history and of the dispersion of the Indo-European peoples. They are breaking their tents in central Asia along the Hindu Kush and the Pamirs, primitive Aryans with their dogs and their herds of domesticated animals. In their trek they will proceed to the farthest confines of Europe....
by Marco Antonio Bussanich
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Former President Jimmy Carter claims that of all cities in the world, Atlanta leads in one category: the number of sex slaves that come through the city. This is due to Atlanta’s global position, and the fact that it has one of world’s largest airports. The land of the free therefore leads in...