Asian History

Authored by one of the leading scholars of German Indology, Fortified Cities in Ancient India offers a comparative exploration of the development o...

Mustafa Ali was the foremost historian of the sixteenth-century Ottoman Empire. Most modern scholars of the Ottoman period have focused on economic...

Composed in a prison cell in 1298 by Venetian merchant Marco Polo and Arthurian romance writer Rustichello of Pisa, The Description of the World re...

Rise of the Mongols offers readers a selection of five important works that detail the rise of the Mongol Empire through Chinese eyes. Three of the...

The 11 March 2011, earthquake and tsunami that occurred in Japan followed by the nuclear crisis are having a large negative impact on the economy o...

The first section of the book is all about Indonesia''s democratic transformation -- as it is the main theme of the book. It looks at the ways in w...

The Luzon campaign of 1945 was the longest island campaign of the Pacific War, lasting from January 1945 to September 1945, and only ended with the...

In Transcending Patterns: Silk Road Cultural and Artistic Interactions through Central Asian Textiles, Mariachiara Gasparini investigates the origi...

This book advances knowledge on loss & damage (L&D) and its interlinkages with climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction. The book inc...

The Border Patrol Police (BPP) of Thailand was formed as a United States CIAs paramilitary intelligence force in the early 1950s. In the early 1960...

Buddhist-Inflected Sovereignties across the Indian Ocean draws attention to the varied, historically contingent, and sometimes competing, arguments...

Indoctrinating the Youth examines how the Guomindang (GMD or Nationalists) sought to maintain control of middle-school students and cultivate their...

Confucian Iconoclasm proposes a novel account of the emergence of modern Confucian philosophy in Republican China (19121949), challenging the histo...

An action-packed human interest story about four young men and their life-changing experiences in China during WWII. When three Yale graduates...

From the Emmy Award-winning Squid Game to streaming sensations like The Glory and Crash Landing on You, Korean television has emerged onto the glob...

For over half a century, the Vietnamese people have endured the harmful legacies of Agent Orange, the toxic herbicide used by the American military...