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A Companion to South Asia in the Past provides the definitive overview of research and knowledge about South Asia’s past, from the Pleistocene to the historic era in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal, provided by a truly global team of experts. The most...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2016-04-13
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
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The sect was said to harbour dark designs to overthrow the government. Its teachers used a dead language that was impenetrable to all but the innermost circle of believers. Its priests preached love and kindness, but helped local warlords acquire firearms. They...
Editeur :
Robinson
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2016-04-07
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Der Autor untersucht die zeitgenössische und die diachrone Wahrnehmung des Erinnerungsorts «Boxeraufstand in China» in zwei europäischen Ländern. Dieses spezielle Ereignis hatte vielfältige soziale Folgen für ein außereuropäisches Land. Einerseits präsentiert das Buch...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-03-24
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This study explores the confluence of economy and ecology in British India, showing that Britain initiated economic development strategies in India in order to efficiently extract resources from it. It looks specifically at how state railway construction and forest...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-03-14
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China today is never out of the news: from international finance to human rights controversies, global coverage of its rising international presence, and the Chinese 'economic miracle'. It seems to be a country of contradictions: a peasant society with some of the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-02-25
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China today is never out of the news: from international finance to human rights controversies, global coverage of its rising international presence, and the Chinese 'economic miracle'. It seems to be a country of contradictions: a peasant society with some of the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-02-25
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This volume looks at the history of Japan from a transnational perspective. It brings to the fore the interconnectedness of Japan's history with the wider Asian-Pacific region and the world.This interconnectedness is examined in the volume through the themes of empire,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-02-11
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Trade, Circulation, and Flow in the Indian Ocean World is a collection which covers a long time span and diverse areas around the ocean. Many of the essays look at the Indian Ocean before Europeans arrived, reminding the reader that there was a cohesive Indian...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-02-05
Collection :
Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
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The book brings together original, state-of-the-art historical research from several continents and examines how mainly local peasant societies responded to colonial pressures to produce a range of different commodities. It offers new directions in the study of African,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-26
Collection :
Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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The Indian Ocean has been the site of multiple interconnected medical interactions that may be viewed in the context of the environmental factors connecting the region. This interdisciplinary work presents essays on various aspects of disease, medicine, and healing in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-26
Collection :
Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
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This study offers a fresh perspective on the 'comfort women' debates. It argues that the system can be understood as the mechanism of the intersectional oppression of gender, race, class and colonialism, while illuminating the importance of testimonies of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-26
Collection :
Genders and Sexualities in History
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The Shias of Pakistan are the world's second largest Shia community after that of Iran, but comprise only 10-15 per cent of Pakistan's population. In recent decades Sunni extremists have increasingly targeted them with hate propaganda and terrorism, yet paradoxically...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-01-15
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Johnson provides an historically rich examination of the intersection of early twentieth-century imperial culture, imperial politics, and imperial economics as reflected in the colonial built environment at New Delhi, a remarkably ambitious imperial capital built by the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-12
Collection :
Britain and the World
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Although long considered to be a barren region on the periphery of ancient Chinese civilization, the southwest massif was once the political heartland of numerous Bronze Age polities. Their distinctive material tradition--intricately cast bronze kettle drums and cowrie...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-01-04
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For the Koreans, no sport has surpassed football in terms of its popularity and national importance, from the Japanese colonization era onwards. However, its importance has developed over time as a result of unusual and agonizing historical events, including the tragic...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-12-04
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The Raj was, for two hundred years, the jewel in the British imperial crown. Although founded on military expansionism and undoubted exploitation, it developed over the centuries into what has been called 'benign autocracy' - the government of many by few, with the...
Editeur :
Abacus
Parution :
2015-11-05
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Outside the Lettered City traces how middle-class Indians responded to the rise of the cinema as a popular form of mass entertainment in early 20th century India, focusing on their preoccupation with the mass public made visible by the cinema and with the cinema's role...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-11-02
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The years leading up to the independence and accompanying partition of India mark a tumultuous period in the history of Bengal. Representing both a major front in the Indian struggle against colonial rule, as well as a crucial Allied outpost in the British/American war...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-10-15
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Using recently released archival material from the US and Japan, this book critically re-examines US–Japanese relations during the tenure of Sato Eisaku, Japan’s longest serving prime minister. During these critical years in the Cold War in Asia, with the Vietnam War...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-10-06
Collection :
Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World
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In this book, seven internationally renowned experts on Japanese and Asian history have come together to investigate, with innovative methodological approaches, various aspects of the Japanese experience during and after the First World War.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-10-05
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