Asian History

The collapse of the Ottoman Empire is a key event in the shaping of the modern Near and Middle East. From the ruins of the empire arose, in addition to the Balkan states, a series of successor states and mandated territories including Turkey, Albania, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Trans Jordan (Jordan), Pal..

This title was first published in 1975...

 From Byzantium to the Mongols to the Sultans of Rum, this acclaimed book offers an important insight into the evocative history of Turkey before the coming of Ottoman power.  Turkey forms a historical bridge between Europe and Asia and as such has played a pivotal role throughout history. The rise ..

 From Byzantium to the Mongols to the Sultans of Rum, this acclaimed book offers an important insight into the evocative history of Turkey before the coming of Ottoman power.  Turkey forms a historical bridge between Europe and Asia and as such has played a pivotal role throughout history. The rise ..

This book provides new research on Zhiqing, the first generation brought up after the establishment of the People’s Republic of China and regarded as a lost generation during the Cultural Revolution. Presenting a remembrance of their tortuous life trajectories, the book investigates their distinctiv..

Constituting an impressive account of key themes in the international history of East Asia from 1900 to 1968, this book is an important contribution to the interpretive study of this crucial period of history. It offers economic, political and strategic perspectives and with a particular focus on An..

This book reconsiders the nature and formation of Asia's economic order during the 1930s and 1950s in light of the new historiographical developments in Britain and Japan. Recently several Japanese economic historians have offered a new perspective on Asian history, arguing that the economic growth..

This book reconsiders the nature and formation of Asia's economic order during the 1930s and 1950s in light of the new historiographical developments in Britain and Japan. Recently several Japanese economic historians have offered a new perspective on Asian history, arguing that the economic growth..

Weeks after his 30th birthday in November 1896, Sun Yatsen, often seen as the founder of modern China, was hard at work planning a new book in English: a comprehensive political treatise on the tyrannical misgovernment of the Chinese nation by the Manchus of the Qing Dynasty. Started then abandoned ..

Weeks after his 30th birthday in November 1896, Sun Yatsen, often seen as the founder of modern China, was hard at work planning a new book in English: a comprehensive political treatise on the tyrannical misgovernment of the Chinese nation by the Manchus of the Qing Dynasty. Started then abandoned ..

This book remains one of the few volumes on Tokugawa Ieyasu which draws on more material from Japanese sources than quotations from the European documents from his era and is therefore much more accurate and thorough in its examination of the life and legacy of one of the greatest Shoguns...

Designed for undergraduate and graduate courses on Indian civilization and history, this text provides a sweeping look at the long and varied history of India and how this complex legacy has shaped, and is shaping, the nation's modern polity. It offers unique political-historical coverage of India f..