Asia category: 8064 books
Histories of Health in Southeast Asia
Perspectives on the Long Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Health patterns in Southeast Asia have changed profoundly over the past century. In that period, epidemic and chronic diseases, environmental transformations, and international health institutions have created new connections within the region and the increased interdependence of Southeast Asia with...
by David Ludden
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
Originally published in 1999, David Ludden's book offers a comprehensive historical framework for understanding the regional diversity of agrarian South Asia. Adopting a long-term view of history, it treats South Asia not as a single civilization territory, but rather as a patchwork of agrarian regions,...
The Central Asia–Afghanistan Relationship
From Soviet Intervention to the Silk Road Initiatives
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Central Asia is a relatively understudied neighbor of Afghanistan. The region is often placed into a number of historical and political contexts—a section of the Silk Road, a pawn in the “Great Game,” the “spillover” state that exemplifies the failure of US foreign policy—that limit scholarly...
Service Industries and Asia Pacific Cities
New Development Trajectories
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
During the second half of the twentieth century, development in the Asia-Pacific region has been dominated by industrialization. However, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, services, in particular, finance, information and creative services, have become deeply embedded in the processes...
Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai
Maritime East Asia in Global History, 1550–1700
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai traces the roots of modern global East Asia by focusing on the fascinating history of its seaways. The East Asian maritime realm, from the Straits of Malacca to the Sea of Japan, has been a core region of international trade for millennia, but during the long seventeenth...
by Yumei Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Pacific Asia has witnessed arguably the most dynamic economic growth and social transformation in the world since 1945. Inspired by the example of Japan, a number of high performing economies have emerged in the region. Pacific Asia explores this extraordinary pace of development and explains the...
East Asia in the World
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
From the Foundations in Global Studies series, this text offers students a fresh, comprehensive, multidisciplinary entry point to East Asia. After a brief introduction to the study of East Asia, the early chapters of the book survey the essentials of East Asian history; important historical narratives;...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 1997
The essays in Formations of Colonial Modernity in East Asia challenge the idea that notions of modernity and colonialism are mere imports from the West, and show how colonial modernity has evolved from and into unique forms throughout Asia. Although the modernity of non-European colonies is as indisputable...
by Lonely Planet, Brett Atkinson, Tim Bewer
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Lonely Planet: The world’s number one travel guide publisher*
Lonely Planet’s Southeast Asia on a Shoestring is your passport to having big experiences on a small budget, offering the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, what hidden discoveries await you and how to...
Empire in Asia: A New Global History
The Long Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
Asia was the principle focus of empire-builders from Alexander and Akbar to Chinggis Khan and Qianlong and yet, until now, there has been no attempt to provide a comprehensive history of empire in the region. Empire in Asia addresses the need for a thorough survey of the topic.
This volume...
by Rhoads Murphey, Kristin Stapleton
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
A History of Asia is the only textbook to provide a historical overview of the whole of this region, encompassing India, China, Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia. Engaging and lively, it chronicles the complex political, social, and intellectual histories of the area from prehistory to the present...
Digital Archetypes
Adaptations of Early Temple Architecture in South and Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
This unique book presents a broad multi-disciplinary examination of early temple architecture in Asia, written by two experts in digital reconstruction and the history and theory of Asian architecture. The authors examine the archetypes of Early Brahmanic, Hindu and Buddhist temple architecture from...
Lost Enlightenment
Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2013
In this sweeping and richly illustrated history, S. Frederick Starr tells the fascinating but largely unknown story of Central Asia's medieval enlightenment through the eventful lives and astonishing accomplishments of its greatest minds--remarkable figures who built a bridge to the modern world....
by Tony Wheeler
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Lonely Planet: #1 Travel publisher in the world*
Lonely Planet Across Asia on the Cheap is a reprint of the very first Lonely Planet guide, originally published in 1973. It gives anyone interested in travel a unique insight into how Lonely Planet began and an idea of what it was like to travel...