M.B - Asia 1

A powerful, emotional memoir and an extraordinary portrait of three generations of Tibetan women whose lives are forever changed when Chairman Mao's Red Army crushes Tibetan independence, sending a ……続きを見る

"Thailand Historical Heritage: The Story of The Land of Golden Temples" goes into great detail about how the country has changed over time, from ancient times to the present. In this book, the autho……続きを見る

This book presents a paradigm shift in the long-term study of South India’s deep history. It refuses the disciplinary constraints of history and prehistory and interrogates the archaeological and te……続きを見る

The book draws from regulation theory to explain urban planning policies and outcomes in Southeast Asia as a function of governance structures and processes. A considerable portion of the book is sp……続きを見る

This book links Calvinist belief in the Perpetual Assurance of Salvation with self-efficacy for economic success. Certain values are at stake for the success of economic behavior. Since the genesis ……続きを見る

Despite Cultures examines the strategies and realities of the Soviet state-building project in Tajikistan during the 1920s and 1930s. Based on extensive archival research, Botakoz Kassymbekova analy……続きを見る

Modernizing and colonizing forces brought nineteenth-century Sri Lankan Buddhists both challenges and opportunities. How did Buddhists deal with social and economic change; new forms of political, r……続きを見る

Un inteligente y entretenido libro de viajes sobre Pekín y la cultura china de la pluma de Santiago Gamboa. Una ciudad moderna nace en medio de los escombros de la vieja Pekín: torres multifamiliare……続きを見る

Sport in Abyssinia; Or, The Mareb and Tackazzee is a fascinating account of the author's exploration of the Ethiopian wilderness through the medium of sport. Dermot Robert Wyndham Bourke, the Earl o……続きを見る

Pékin, printemps 1933. Un lourd silence règne sur la Cité interdite, demeure séculaire des empereurs chinois. Les troupes d’invasion japonaises sont aux portes de la ville. La guerre est là. Malgré ……続きを見る

Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa's 'History of the Incas' is a comprehensive and detailed account of the Inca civilization, providing valuable insights into their culture, society, and history. Written in ……続きを見る

This book argues that long-distance trade in luxury items – such as diamonds, gold, cinnamon, scented woods, ivory and pearls, all of which require little overhead in their acquisition and were rela……続きを見る

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, a compelling and comprehensive three-volume work, opens a window into the early 19th-century exploration and study of South Ameri……続きを見る

Passing, Posing, Persuasion interrogates the intersections between cultural production, identity, and persuasive messaging that idealized inclusion and unity across Japan’s East Asian empire (1895–1……続きを見る

Bailey describes how the Sea of Okhotsk area became integrated into a world system of economic and cultural ties between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. This happened primarily because of ……続きを見る

This book examines Japan’s Heisei era through the lens of the crisis in Japanese professional baseball of 2004, challenging the narrative of decline that dominates the discourse on the period. The s……続きを見る

No relationship has been as complex and so difficult to manage as India's relations with Pakistan. Four wars, cross-border terrorism, and Pakistan's persistent hostility and relentless campaign on "……続きを見る

Central Asian post-independence media and communication industries, professional practices, education, persisting and evolving values, and traditions remain critically understudied with a notable sc……続きを見る

In 1942 William Brown was posted as a recently commissioned Indian Army Officer to the Gilgit Agency in the very north of the North West Frontier. He travelled widely, learnt the local dialects and ……続きを見る

Charles Holcombe begins by asking the question 'what is East Asia?' In the modern age, many of the features that made the region - now defined as including China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam - distinct……続きを見る

There are two unresolved mysteries in history. One is the disappearance of the ten Israelite tribes that the Assyrians had enslaved and transported to their lands and put them to slave for the empir……続きを見る

在浩如煙海的歷史長河，披瀝出台灣與世界各角落相關涉的歷史鉤沉，藉由一系列源自十七至十九世紀間西方世界，而與台灣的文化、宗教、政經發展有過影響的人物書寫，透由不同角度的側記勾勒，提供非比以往的歷史觀點……続きを見る

What is the role of cultural authenticity in the making of nations? Much scholarly and popular commentary on nationalism dismisses authenticity as a romantic fantasy or, worse, a deliberately constr……続きを見る

First published in 1965, The Culture and Civilisation of Ancient India in Historical Outline is a strikingly original work, the first real cultural history of India. The main features of the Indian ……続きを見る

MAHAD has an iconic place in Dalit universe. Associated with legendary personality of Dr Ambedkar, the struggle of Dalits at Mahad for asserting their rights to access the public tank, the Chavadar ……続きを見る

This book carries out a comprehensive analysis of the María Luz incident, a truly significant episode in Japanese and world history, from a legal perspective. In July 1872, the María Luz, a barque f……続きを見る

Kusang never thought she would leave Tibet. Growing up in a remote mountain village, she married a monk and gave birth to two children. But then the Chinese army invaded, and their peaceful lives we……続きを見る

Written in the 1990s after retirement from his services as a doctor and discovered by his daughter in the loft of their house in Darjeeling in India in 2017, this memoir of Dr. Tsewang Yishey Pemba ……続きを見る

Can a book change the world? If books were integral to the creation of the imperial global order, what role have they played in resisting that order throughout the twentieth century? To what extent ……続きを見る

The contributions in this book address a vast variety of questions concerning the sources and mutual inspirations in Oriental and European literatures. The authors discuss selected texts from both h……続きを見る