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Radice, himself a recognized English poet and erudite scholar, delved into the deeper meaning of Tagore’s poems and songs, and discussed his ideas on education and the environment with an insight pr……続きを見る

Based on oral history, fiction, fascinating intellectual gossip, and records of the Coffee Board of India, this study is a multi-sited ethnography of the Indian Coffee House, possibly the world’s fi……続きを見る

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Duong Van Mai Elliott's The Sacred Willow illuminates recent Vietnamese history by weaving together the stories of the lives of four generations of her family. Beg……続きを見る

Middle-class Values in India and Western Europe discusses the distinctive attributes of the middle classes in France, Germany and India. The construction of new norms of respectability is a universa……続きを見る

Telecommunications Industry in India represents the first comprehensive study of a state-run enterprise in the telecommunications industry. The study traces over a period of half a century (1948-200……続きを見る

This book analyzes how Chinese think tanks have become essential actors in today’s Chinese foreign policy and diplomatic practices. By providing an in-depth analysis of their roles, functions and tr……続きを見る

The study considers two generations of Anglo-Indian women in post-colonial India, and their social interaction with their community. It explores Anglo-Indian women as part of a cultural whole and as……続きを見る

This fourth edition of Historical Dictionary of Mongolia covers the people and organizations that brought Mongolia from revolution and oppression to independence and democracy, and its current unpre……続きを見る

Terracotta Warriors provides an intriguing, original and up-to-date account of one of the wonders of the ancient world. Illustrated with a wealth of original photographs, this is the first book avai……続きを見る

This is the first book to comprehensively cover the historical process leading to Taiwan’s integration with Mainland China in the seventeenth century. As such, it addresses the Taiwan question in th……続きを見る

Heinrich Schreiber's Buch "Die Volkssagen der Stadt Freiburg im Breisgau und ihrer Umgebung" ist eine faszinierende Sammlung von Volkssagen aus der Region. Das Buch präsentiert die mündlich überlief……続きを見る

In a first of its kind, this book attempts a comprehensive account of the old Vedic society with particular focus on the physical conditions of life during the Bronze Age in north western South Asia……続きを見る

Plaine et hautes terres, lacs, fleuves et forêts, la nature impose au Cambodge cette distinction. Et le mythe accuse cette division entre le Cambodge de l'eau et le Cambodge des montagnes.... 続きを見る

Rikugun: Guide to Japanese Ground Forces 1937-1945 is the first nuts-and-bolts handbook to utilize both the voluminous raw allied intelligence documents and postwar Japanese documentation as primary……続きを見る

This volume investigates various processes by which world religions become localized, as well as how local traditions in Southeast Asia and Melanesia become universalized. In the name of modernity a……続きを見る

This book explains the political origins and evolution of capitalist institutions in developing countries by looking at distinct patterns in the electronics industry in three Southeast Asian countri……続きを見る

The classic bestselling Chinese novel spanning four decades following the creation of the People's Republic in 1949, translated into English for the first time. Originally published in 1987, two yea……続きを見る

Fachbuch aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Asien, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Als eine der großen Herrscherinnen des Altertums gilt die Fürstin Zenobia aus dem dritten Jahrhundert nach……続きを見る

This innovative volume examines the nexus between war crimes trials and the pursuit of collaborators in post-war Asia. Global standards of behaviour in time of war underpinned the prosecution of Jap……続きを見る

First published in 1958, A Marine Division in Nightmare Alley is a brief but gripping narrative of the author’s experiences as a young U.S. Marine during the Korean conflict. Beginning with his enli……続きを見る

U.S. Major Ward M. Millar was the third and last of three Air Force pilots captured during the Korean War to make his escape from the Communists. This is his story, first published in 1955, simply t……続きを見る

Lt. Duane Thorin was a Navy helicopter pilot, who rescued many Americans before he himself was captured in 1952 and held as a prisoner of war by North Korea until his release in August, 1953. This b……続きを見る

Xiaoping Cong examines the social and cultural significance of Chinese revolutionary legal practice in the construction of marriage and gender relations. Her book is an empirically rich investigatio……続きを見る

This book explores literary and scholarly representations of India from the 18th to the early 20th centuries in South Asia and the West with idolatry as a point of entry. It charts the intellectual ……続きを見る

This book explores a striking common feature of pre-modern ruling systems on a global scale: the participation of childless and celibate men as integral parts of the elites. In bringing court eunuch……続きを見る

The peoples of Inner Asia in the second half of the first millennium BC have long been considered to be nomads, engaging in warfare and conflict. This book, which presents the findings of new archae……続きを見る

The Tragedy of Vietnam is a brief and accessible text providing a comprehensive overview of the causes and consequences of the Vietnam War. Patrick J. Hearden offers historical background of the con……続きを見る

Although colonies are often viewed as having been of crucial economic importance to Britain’s empire, those responsible for administering the colonies were often not at all interested in or supporti……続きを見る

The collection presents the proceedings of the international colloquium held in Sankt Augustin in 1997 and additional materials. The articles are written in English, German or Chinese (with English ……続きを見る

The Union Version, China's preeminent and most widely used translation of the Bible, had achieved the status of a sacred Chinese classic within the Chinese Church not long after its publication in 1……続きを見る