Asian History

The Angkorian World explores the history of Southeast Asias largest ancient state from the first to mid-second millennium CE. Chapters by leading s...

Nationalism and Decolonisation in Singapore analyses Singapores decolonisation movement between 1953 and 1963 and provides a framework to understan...

Cinema has become a battleground upon which history is madea major mass medium of the twentieth century dealing with history. The re-enactments of ...

This book explores how the history of postcolonial Sri Lanka suggests a new paradigm for understanding state-formation as an ever-shifting and evol...

The Florentine traveler, merchant, and academician Filippo Sassetti was one of the premier economic thinkers of the late Renaissance. Well known fo...

Sadriddin Ayni (18781954) was a Tajik intellectual, regarded by many as one of the most important writers in the countrys history. This book provid...

During World War II, agents of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) infiltrated Japanese-occupied Malaya. There they worked with Malayan guerrill...

From sleepy fishing village to samurai capital to vibrant global metropolis, Eiko Maruko Siniawer takes readers through Tokyo's rich history, revea...

This thoroughly revised and updated third edition of Modern Japan provides a concise and fascinating introduction to the social, cultural and polit...

Beyond Shangri-La chronicles relations between the Tibetans and the United States since 1908, when a Dalai Lama first met with U.S. representatives...

In Fierce Enigmas, prize-winning historian Srinath Raghavan argues that we cannot understand the US's entanglement in South Asia without first unde...

Gandhi's nationalism seems simple and straightforward: he wanted an independent Indian nation-state and freedom from British colonial rule. But in ...

This book offers an in-depth exploration of the early history of Palestine, providing a rigorous analysis of pivotal events and underlying dynamics...

The Indian Rebellion 1857-1859 focuses on the military dimensions of this conflict, in which Indian rebels waged both conventional and unconvention...

The Indian Rebellion 1857-1859 focuses on the military dimensions of this conflict, in which Indian rebels waged both conventional and unconvention...

This open access book examines from the perspective of secularization. Since the publication of Max Weber's Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Cap...

First published in 1932, Nationalism and Imperialism in the Hither East seeks to present the history of Turkey, Egypt and Arabia in the decade wher...

This book examines slavery in India from the Turkish conquest of North India to the centuries of Mughal rule. It focuses on the northern Islamic re...

This book examines slavery in India from the Turkish conquest of North India to the centuries of Mughal rule. It focuses on the northern Islamic re...

Significantly expanded and updateda lively excursion into Japanese folklore and its increasing influence within global popular culture.   Monsters,...

First published in 1952, Ceylon is a one-volume history of Ceylon, primarily intended for the non-Ceylonese reader who has no special knowledge of ...

Significantly expanded and updateda lively excursion into Japanese folklore and its increasing influence within global popular culture.   Monsters,...

First published in 1967, The Giants of Asia discusses the growth of Asian nationalism and Asian power. It surveys the major Asian countries and the...

India in the 1950s and 1960s, with its diversity of economic structures and different levels of regional development, offers a unique opportunity t...

The long buried story of three extraordinary female journalists who permanently shattered the official and cultural barriers to women covering war....

From the founding of the Ming dynasty in 1368 to the start of the Opium Wars in 1841, China has engaged in only two large-scale conflicts with its ...

The Xi'an Stele, erected in Tang China's capital in 781, describes in both Syriac and Chinese the existence of Christian communities in northern Ch...

From the beginning of its recorded history until the opening to the West in the last century, Japan was caught between a love for and a rejection o...

Although it was then perceived as a far-off and inconclusive engagement, the Korean War was a highly consequential and deeply destructive conflict....

In recent years, queer theory appears to have made a materialist turn away from questions of representation and performativity to those of disposse...

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2022 China's Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) produced propaganda music that still stirs unease and, at tim...