Asian History

A collection of thrilling samurai tales tracing the history of seppuku from ancient times to the twentieth century. The history of seppuku -- Japan...

Mark Ormrod was a 'gravel belly', a 'bootneck' marine who loved being in the heart of the action when things kicked off, and he relished the prospe...

With over 800 unique photographs, this Chinese art book is a feast for the eyes.Produced exclusively for wealthy Chinese communities along the Stra...

Brilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relations...

The overland Silk Road linking China with West Asia and Europe is a famous and fabled trade route. The sea route that was its alternative was argua...

Filled with a whimsical sense of humor and fantastic fables of faraway lands, this book, orignally written for children, offers a Western perspecti...

Following the Tet Offensive, a shift in U.S. naval strategy in 1967-1968 saw young men fresh out of high school policing the canals and tributar...

In 1940, Japan was into its third year of war with China, and relations with the United States were deteriorating, but it was a heady time for the ...

The word khan is not a name, but a title. It means chieftain or king. It is a word used in various forms by the different tribes and nations that f...

This is a fascinating and insightful biography of one of the world's longest reigning and most revered monarchs. King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailan...

This is the first volume to present a comprehensive collection of sources on Chinese women's history. The anthology explores overt and covert infor...

Rosalind Russell has written an extraordinarily beautiful, comprehensive and compelling story of Burma in a remarkably human way - essential readin...

Are walls remnants of ancient and medieval societies, destined to become anachronistic in modern and post-modern times? Or will they persist, shapi...

The leader of one of the most successful U. S. Marine long range reconnaissance teams during the Vietnam War, Andrew Finlayson recounts his team...

The FOUR VOLUMES of 'JUDGES & GENERALS IN PAKISTAN' not only include the historical facts about the honourable judges and respectable military ...

'Judges & Generals in Pakistan-I' by Inam R Sehri is a collection of mostly his published articles; explaining diverse scenarios. This book eva...

Through the voices of senior officials, teachers, soldiers, journalists, and artists, The Republic of Vietnam, 19551975, presents us with an interp...

The powerful Thai politician Banharn Silpa-archa has been disparaged as a corrupt operator who for years channeled excessive state funds into devel...

The Cold War in Southeast Asia was a many-faceted conflict, driven by regional historical imperatives as much as by the contest between global supe...

A retainer of our domain, Renpeido Chikamatsu Hikonoshin Shigenori, each morning washed his face and hands, dressed himself in Hakama and prayed in...

In a comprehensive and theoretically novel analysis, Take Back Our Future unveils the causes, processes, and implications of the 2014 seventy-nine-...

The unimagined community proposes a reexamination of the Vietnam War from a perspective that has been largely excluded from historical accounts of ...

Bollywood's India explores the nature of mainstream Hindi cinema, now best known as Bollywood, and its non-realistic depictions of everyday life in...

Though fascinated with the land of their tradition''s birth, virtually no Japanese Buddhists visited the Indian subcontinent before the nineteenth ...

Popular operas in late imperial China were a major part of daily entertainment, and were also important for transmitting knowledge of Chinese cultu...

There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn ...

This accessible text provides a useful introductory look at the history, cultures, and politics of Southeast Asia, an area that is home to more tha...

The Ninjas today are the stuff of myth and legend in comics, film and electronic games. But once they were real, the medieval equivalent of the SAS...