Asian History

By directly challenging existing accounts of post-World War II relations among the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New...

This text retells the story of a brotherhood of young men who together laid claim to one of the most notorious frontiers in the world: India's nort...

A fascinating glimpse of life in Japan in 1920 as experienced through the eyes of an observant and sensitive American missionary whose travels t...

Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 while under house arrest. Eloquent, educated in the West and clothed in white, there was...

The Republic of (South) Vietnam is commonly viewed as a unified entity throughout the two decades (195575) during which the United States was its m...

Secularizing Islamists? provides an indepth analysis of two Islamist parties in Pakistan, the highly influential Jama'at-e-Islami and the more mili...

In search of national unity and state control in the decade following the Korean War, North Korea turned to labor. Mandating rapid industrial growt...

Communal Intimacy and the Violence of Politics explores the notoriously brutal Philippine war on drugs from below. Steffen Bo Jensen and Karl Hapal...

Making Place for Muslims in Contemporary India looks at how religion provides an arena to make place and challenge the majoritarian, exclusionary, ...

Co-winner of the Central Eurasian Studies Society's prize for best book in History and the Humanities in 2022 and 2023, and winner of the The Josep...

A highly illustrated study of the battle of the Imjin River in Korea, a heroic defense by the US and UK forces against overwhelming Chinese numbers...

'Judges & Generals in Pakistan Vol - IV' by Inam R Sehri is another collection of essays and articles, mostly published on internet media, whic...

Communal Intimacy and the Violence of Politics explores the notoriously brutal Philippine war on drugs from below. Steffen Bo Jensen and Karl Hapal...

Banking on Growth Models contends that China's rapid economic rise from the late 1970s to today has been built on and shaped by a highly politicize...

Focusing on the Deccan Sultanates of 16th- and 17th-century central India, Local States in an Imperial World promotes the idea that some polities o...

Fifty Years in the Karen Revolution in Burma is about commitment to an ideal, individual survival and the universality of the human experience. A m...

In this follow-up to his much-praised book Losing Small Wars: British Military Failure in Iraq and Afghanistan, Frank Ledwidge argues that Britain ...

During the eighteenth and early years of the nineteenth century, the red tide of British expansion had covered almost the entire Indian subcontinen...

The cache of bamboo texts unearthed in the village of Guodian, Hubei Province, in 1993 is a rare and unique find in the history of Chinese philosop...