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From the beginning of the American Occupation in 1945 to the post-bubble period of the early 1990s, popular music provided Japanese listeners with a much-needed release, channeling their desires, fe……続きを見る

The Dutch East India Company was a hybrid organization combining the characteristics of both corporation and state that attempted to thrust itself aggressively into an Asian political order in which……続きを見る

This authoritative work sheds light on the religious world of the Kalasha people of the Birir valley in the Chitral district of Pakistan, focusing on their winter feasts, which culminate every year ……続きを見る

Cet ouvrage fournit une analyse approfondie de L'Art de la guerre de Sun Tzu avec toutes les clés pour analyse l'œuvre. L'Art de la guerre est sans aucun doute le plus fameux des traités de stratégi……続きを見る

An engineer by profession, Karthik Narayanan (1938) was born in Calcutta and had his early education in Tuticorin. He is an industrialist and heads companies that manufacture automobile components. ……続きを見る

ஜெயகாந்தன், தி.ஜானகிராமன், சிட்டி, சிவபாதசுந்தரம் போன்ற மூத்த தலைமுறைப் படைப்பாளிகள்/ விமர்சகர்களாலும், பிரபஞ்சன், பொன்னீலன், பா.செயப்பிரகாசம் போன்ற சமகால எழுத்தாளர்களாலும், எஸ்.ராமகிருஷ்ணன் போன்ற அ……続きを見る

South Asian History has enjoyed a remarkable renaissance over the past thirty years. Its historians are not only producing new ways of thinking about the imperial impact and legacy on South Asia, bu……続きを見る

For many Westerners, the name Vietnam evokes images of a bloody televised American war that generated a firestorm of protest and brought conflict into their living rooms. In his sweeping account, Be……続きを見る

Established in the wake of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-8 by the Australian army officer Major-General Walter Cawthorne, then Deputy Chief of Staff in the Pakistan Army, Pakistan's Inter-Services ……続きを見る

Gyeongju, the capital of the Kingdom of Silla, grew from a loose confederation of villages, called Saro, to become the capital of most of the Korean peninsula. Its relationships with Japan, the Eura……続きを見る

The Routledge Handbook of Maritime Trade around Europe 1300-1600 exploresthe links between maritime trading networks around Europe, from the Mediterranean and the Atlantic to the North and Baltic Se……続きを見る

The authors argue that with the election of the Abe Government in December 2012, Japanese politics has entered a radically new phase they describe as the “2012 Political System.” The system began wi……続きを見る

**台灣總是跳脫我們的預測，讓我們看得頭暈目眩。 這種巨大流動所帶來的爽快感，也正是台灣政治的魅力所在。 2016年樫山純三賞　一般書部門最優秀作品 筑摩書房首刷上市10,000冊 出版後一年內受邀演講超過30場 日……続きを見る

In the first half of the twentieth century, a diverse community of Australians settled in Shanghai. There they forged a ‘China trade’, circulating goods, people and ideas across the South China Sea,……続きを見る

At present, a nativist turn in Indian political theory can be observed. There is a general assumption that the indigenous thought to which researchers are supposed to be (re)turning may somehow be i……続きを見る

The consolidation of Taiwanese identity in recent years has been accompanied by two interrelated paradoxes: a continued language shift from local Taiwanese languages to Mandarin Chinese, and the inc……続きを見る

Burma (Myanmar) is a Southeast Asian country that is emerging from crisis after more than a half century of hard-line military rule and cultural, diplomatic and economic isolation. With the dissolut……続きを見る

The promise of magic has always commanded the human imagination, but the story of industrial modernity is usually seen as a process of disenchantment. Drawing on the writings and performances of the……続きを見る

Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the events surrounding the bombing of Hiroshima in next to no time with this concise guide. 50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of……続きを見る

In this work Neils Steensgaard combines an analytical economic approach with detailed historic scholarship to provide an imaginitive and important analysis of a central incident in modern world hist……続きを見る

By turns exotic, valuable and of cardinal importance in the development of world trade, spices, as the editor reminds us, are today a mundane accessory in any well-equiped kitchen; in the 15th-18th ……続きを見る

Unconventional war is an umbrella term which includes insurgencies, counter-insurgencies, terrorism and religious conflicts. Insurgencies and communal conflicts have become much more common in this ……続きを見る

Birth control holds an unusual place in the history of medicine. Largely devoid of doctors or hospitals, only relatively recently have birth control histories included tales of laboratory-based ther……続きを見る

The essays included in this volume focus on conventional war on land, sea and air fought by the states of South Asia and their impact on the host societies and economies. The authors are drawn from ……続きを見る

Grounded in a variety of rich and diverse source materials such as periodicals meant for women and edited by women, song and cookbooks, book reviews and court records, the author of this pioneering ……続きを見る

Portuguese Encounters with Sri Lanka and the Maldives: Translated Texts from the Age of the Discoveries is designed to provide access to translations of 16th- and 17th-century documents which illust……続きを見る

This book addresses the issue of public religion and its implications in Chinese society. Zhibin Xie explores various normative considerations concerning the appropriate role of religion in public p……続きを見る

This collection of seminal articles illustrates the reasons for the spiraling nuclear race in the Asian subcontinent and introduces the principal debates in the field. Authors discuss whether the ac……続きを見る

As one of the most rapid and earliest nations to achieve "Western modernisation", much of Japan’s success stems from its fruitful literacy history during the Tokugawa shogunate as well as later infl……続きを見る

**A Financial Times Best Book of 2017 “A shrewd and knowing book.” ーRobert D. Kaplan, The Wall Street Journal “A compelling and impressive read.” ーThe Economist “Skillfully crafted and well-argued……続きを見る