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It is sometimes said that, in the 21st century, the country that tells the better story wins, rather than the country whose army can prevail on the battlefield. That ability to attract others, persu……続きを見る

Combining practical and theoretical approaches, this book addresses the political, legal and economic implications of maritime disputes in East Asia. The maritime disputes in East Asia have multipli……続きを見る

Post Cold War international relations have undeniably been a litmus test for the bilateral relations between India and Russia. With the emergence of a new international system, the foreign policies ……続きを見る

◆達蘭薩拉，一座世界知名的小鎮。 ◆她是藏傳佛教的新聖地，也是一座難民營。 ◆在被妖魔化的「舊西藏」與被革命窒息的「新西藏」之外， ◆千里跋涉、翻越雪山、通過達蘭薩拉走向全世界的 ◆「第三個西藏」在此重生。 ……続きを見る

In the wake of its defeat in World War II, as Japan was forced to remake itself from “empire” to “nation” in the face of an uncertain global situation, literature and literary criticism emerged as h……続きを見る

(This edition contains a limited number of illustrations.) The most frank, readable and detailed account available in the English language of the political, economic, environmental and cultural chan……続きを見る

未明的南方 是從點到圈的擴張 也是帝國無限膨脹的慾望 從明治中期以降，日本的有識者開始發展「南進論」，主張藉助「海洋」的力量往南方前進，宣稱南洋是日本人海外進出最合適的地域。「前往南方」最初是以解決日……続きを見る

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

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the pre-modern economic history of Central Asia and the Silk Road, covering several millennia. By analyzing an abundance of sources and materials, it ill……続きを見る

Although not a major player during the course of the First World War, Southeast Asia was in fact altered by the war in multiple and profound ways. Ranging across British Malaya, the Dutch East Indie……続きを見る

In this innovative legal history of economic life in the Western Indian Ocean, Bishara examines the transformations of Islamic law and Islamicate commercial practices during the emergence of modern ……続きを見る

La reflexión sobre la política exterior de Siria ofrece nuevas perspectivas para entender el proceso que llevó a la crisis y a la guerra desde finales de 2011. Este libro describe la interacción de ……続きを見る

La rebelión Maji Maji es uno de los eventos de mayor trascendencia para la historiografía y el nacionalismo de Tanzania. Se remonta a 1905, cuando más de veinte grupos étnicos de diversas regiones d……続きを見る

Shortlisted for the National Biography Award 2018 Writing for Raksmey tells of the lives of six families who fled the aftermath of the Cambodian killing fields, were held in a crowded refugee camp a……続きを見る

Drawing on methods and approaches from anthropology, media studies, film theory, and cultural studies, the contributors to Media, Erotics, and Transnational Asia examine how mediated eroticism and s……続きを見る

Pol Pot was an idealistic, reclusive figure with great charisma and personal charm. He initiated a revolution whose radical egalitarianism exceeded any other in history. But in the process, Cambodia……続きを見る

A bitter debate erupted in 1834 between Orientalists and Anglicists over what kind of public education the British should promote in their growing Indian empire. This collection of the main document……続きを見る

First published in 1930. 'The book is full of splendour and strange scenes' Nation The Relations of Fernão Guerreiro, from which the three narratives in this volume have been taken, constitute a com……続きを見る

Hind Swaraj is Mahatma Gandhi's fundamental work. Not only is it key to understanding his life and thoughts, but also the politics of South Asia in the first half of the twentieth century. Celebrati……続きを見る

Discusses the production and circulation of animal narratives in colonial India in order to investigate the constructs of animals played into a variety of forms of othering that took place in Englan……続きを見る

Presenting cutting-edge scholarship dedicated to exploring the emergence and articulation of modernity in colonial South Asia, this book builds upon and extends recent insights into the constitutive……続きを見る

For decades, India has been a conservative democracy governed by the upper caste notables coming from the urban bourgeoisie, the landowning aristocracy and the intelligentsia. The democratisation of……続きを見る

The importance of the Himalayan state of Nepal has been obscured by the international campaign to free Tibet and the vicissitudes of the Sino-Indian rivalry. This book presents the history of Nepal’……続きを見る

Examining the world of popular healing in South Asia, this book looks at the way that it is marginalised by the state and medical establishment while at the same time being very important in the eve……続きを見る

This book examines the role western-education and social standing played in the development of Indian nationalism in the early twentieth century. It highlights the influences that education abroad h……続きを見る

Focusing on Portuguese, British and French colonial spaces, this book traces changing concepts of mixed-race identity in early colonial India. Starting in the sixteenth century, it discusses how the……続きを見る

Providing an overall interpretation of the Buddhist monument Borobudur in Indonesia, this book looks at Mahayana Buddhist religious ideas and practices that could have informed Borobudur, including ……続きを見る

In 1971, a war which took place in Pakistan that resulted in the establishment of two separate countries; East Pakistan became Bangladesh, leaving the remaining four western provinces to comprise a ……続きを見る

Taking as its premise the belief that communalism is not a resurgence of tradition but is instead an inherently modern phenomenon, as well as a product of the fundamental agencies and ideas of moder……続きを見る

Focusing on concepts that have been central to investigation of the history and politics of marginalized and disenfranchised populations, this book asks how discourses of ‘subalternity’ and ‘differe……続きを見る