This landmark book provides a comprehensive anthropological introduction to contemporary Central Asia. Established and emerging scholars of the region critically interrogate the idea of a Central Asian World at the intersection of post-Soviet, Persi...Lasīt vairāk
This new edited volume of critical essays examines designs for modern living in Asia between 1945 and 1990. Focusing particularly on the post-World War II and postcolonial years, this book advances multidisciplinary knowledge on approaches to and...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 05-Jun-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009504782)
A concise and comprehensive introduction to China, Korea, Japan and Vietnam from the dawn of history to the present day, emphasizing connections, commonalities, and differences. The third edition includes important developments over the last decade,...Lasīt vairāk
A concise and comprehensive introduction to China, Korea, Japan and Vietnam from the dawn of history to the present day, emphasizing connections, commonalities, and differences. The third edition includes important developments over the last decade,...Lasīt vairāk
Spanning Central Asian and Iranian history from medieval to early modern times, the groundbreaking essays in the book written by prominent scholars discuss political history, archaeology, historiography, historical linguistics, as well as cultural, l...Lasīt vairāk
In many Asian societies, the process of modernization often took place in a rapid and highly compressed fashion not over centuries, as had happened in most Western societies, but in several decades. This enabled Asian societies to achieve high leve...Lasīt vairāk
In many Asian societies, the process of modernization often took place in a rapid and highly compressed fashion not over centuries, as had happened in most Western societies, but in several decades. This enabled Asian societies to achieve high leve...Lasīt vairāk
Enrich your scheme of work and broaden your curriculum with accessible case studies on Asian empires linked by the Silk Roads. Written by a team led by Aaron Wilkes, with expert historian input. This book introduces students to the Early Islamic Emp...Lasīt vairāk
This book describes the interactions between various civilizations and societies along the Silk Road between 500 BCE and 1500 CE, the period from the first encounters of the ancient Greek and Persian civilizations to the time when maritime exchanges...Lasīt vairāk
This volume examines the unique cultural and socioeconomic aspects of Central Asia and the effects of these elements on women leaders in the region, focusing on five countries. Unfortunately, gender inequality and underutilization of womens talen...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 10-Apr-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781032525396)
This book maps the intellectual and cultural transformation that India witnessed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through the three TagoresDwarkanath Tagore (17941846), Debendranath Tagore (18171905), and Rabindranath Tagore (18611941)....Lasīt vairāk
From the end of the Second World War to the early 1970s, new paradigms began to form in academic, scientific, and professional knowledge in various disciplines and fieldsnot only in the United States, but also in East Asia.Drawing on a we...Lasīt vairāk
Yuka Tsuchiya Moriguchi, Jae Young Cha, Shin Kawashima, Somei Kobayashi, Miriam Kingsberg Kadia, Masaki Fujioka, Yuko Sato, Manyong Moon, Mike Shichi Lan, Yang Zhang...
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Apr-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Indiana University Press, ISBN-13: 9780253072054)
From the end of the Second World War to the early 1970s, new paradigms began to form in academic, scientific, and professional knowledge in various disciplines and fieldsnot only in the United States, but also in East Asia.Drawing on a we...Lasīt vairāk
This book studies a striking example of intensely negotiated colonial scientific practice: the case of botanical practice in Korea during the Japanese colonization from 1910 to 1945.The shared aim of botanists who encountered one another in...Lasīt vairāk
This volume, edited by Kwai-Cheung Lo and Hung-chiung Li, explores the notion of entangled waterscape to reflect beyond the traditional continental perspectives. It understands Asia and beyond through the multifaceted interplay of history, economics...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Feb-2025, Other book format, Izdevniecība: Peter Lang Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781803748450)
Identifying the colonial as an overarching systemic force that continues to shape our lives and worlds, this book thinks through decolonization as a striving towards dignity, security and equity across categories of identity, experience and knowle...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Feb-2025, Other book format, Izdevniecība: Peter Lang Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781803748443)
This book explores the «postcolonial modern» across South Asian literatures and cultures, while demonstrating that postcoloniality is an ongoing lived experience and that modernity has always been a many-voiced historical reality. It contends that...Lasīt vairāk
To form a truer portrait of Northeast Asian perspectives on modernity, this book presents a broad range of analyses from philosophical and political-philosophical scholars specializing in the region. To form a truer portrait of Nor...Lasīt vairāk
