Asia category: 8064 books
Islam after Communism
Religion and Politics in Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2014
How do Muslims relate to Islam in societies that experienced seventy years of Soviet rule? How did the utopian Bolshevik project of remaking the world by extirpating religion from it affect Central Asia? Adeeb Khalid combines insights from the study of both Islam and Soviet history to answer these...
by Russell Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Sojourner in Islamic Lands takes us on a journey from Kazakhstan in the far north of Central Asia, across the mountains to the former Soviet Union, then south to Iran just below the Caspian Sea. Russell Fraser follows the ancient Silk Road wherever possible. For centuries the Silk Road was the primary...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
The success of the first four editions shows that this book fills a vacuum for readers who wish to learn about the countries of South-East Asia. Recent years have seen a number of important developments all of which are covered here. With the global climate becoming more uncertain and the threat of...
Blood and Silk
Power and Conflict in Modern Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
Why are Southeast Asia's richest countries such as Malaysia riddled with corruption? Why do Myanmar, Thailand and the Philippines harbour unresolved violent insurgencies? How do deepening religious divisions in Indonesia and Malaysia, and China's growing influence, affect the region and the rest of...
by Colin Mason
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
The nations of Asia now make up more than half of the world's population. With increasingly affluent, educated middle classes and vigorous, innovative industries, they are more populous and powerful than ever before, and their influence on the rest of the world is only growing. Colin Mason provides...
A History of Ayutthaya
Siam in the Early Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Early European visitors placed Ayutthaya alongside China and India as the great powers of Asia. Yet in 1767 the city was destroyed and its history has been neglected. This book is the first study of Ayutthaya from its emergence in the thirteenth century until its fall. It offers a wide-ranging view...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
The twenty-first century has been dubbed the Asian Century. Highlighting diverse thinker-politicians rather than billionaire businessmen, Makers of Modern Asia presents eleven leaders who theorized and organized anticolonial movements, strategized and directed military campaigns, and designed and implemented political systems.
Restless Valley
Revolution, Murder, and Intrigue in the Heart of Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
This award-winning foreign correspondent’s vivid account of Central Asia’s recent history “reads like a novel but is the stuff of hard-won journalism” (Gary Shteyngart, author of Absurdistan).
Here are the stories of two revolutions, a massacre of unarmed civilians, a civil war, a drug-smuggling...
by S. C. M. Paine
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
The Wars for Asia, 1911–1949 shows that the Western treatment of World War II, the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War as separate events misrepresents their overlapping connections and causes. The Chinese Civil War precipitated a long regional war between China and Japan that went...
RUINS OF DESERT CATHAY - 1912 - Volume 1
PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF EXPLORATIONS IN CENTRAL ASIA AND WESTERNMOST CHINA. 1906-1909.
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
RUINS OF DESERT CATHAY (Published 1912) PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF EXPLORATIONS IN CENTRAL ASIA AND WESTERNMOST CHINA IN 1912 BY M. AUREL STEIN. WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS, COLOUR PLATES, PANORAMAS, AND MAPS FROM ORIGINAL SURVEYS IN TWO VOLUMES - VOL. 1
This is the complete and unabridged...
Destination: Asia
Coming to Thailand & Asian adventures
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2013
Influenced and intrigued as he was by all things Asian, and desperate to escape the monotony of America's first planned community, when Carleton Cole's path took him to Thailand, it came as no surprise to him. For years he had been fascinated by Thailand, reading everything he could about the country...
The Post-Soviet Decline of Central Asia
Sustainable Development and Comprehensive Capital
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Sievers draws on his experience of Central Asia to take on the task of explaining the remarkable economic declines of the post-Soviet Central Asian states (Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan) in the past decade, and the turn of these states towards despotism.
by Brandon Follett, Amy Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Brandon and Amy travel Southeast Asia with the idea that this beautiful region of the world with its unique geography and culture will not be experienced with a cocktail in hand, felt through a Thai massage parlor, or watched from a pool side. Tasted by way of S. E. Asia omelets and interpreted...
by Dwight H. Perkins
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
In the early 1960s fewer than five percent of Japanese owned automobiles, China's per capita income was among the lowest in Asia, and living standards in rural South Korea put it among the world's poorest countries. Today, these are three of the most powerful economies on earth. Dwight Perkinsdraws...