2015 | Asian History Books

Inside Central Asia: A Political and Cultural History of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz stan, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Iran

March 22, 2015

From a critically acclaimed author-a comprehensive history of the part of the world currently making headlines The former Soviet republics of Central Asia comprise a sprawling, politically pivotal, densely populated, and richly cultured area of the world that is nonetheless poorly represented in libraries and mainstream media. Since their political incorporation in Stalin’s Soviet era, […]
Never In Your Wildest Dreams: Help me, Pakistan is Drowning – One Woman’s Desperate Cry to the World for the 21 Million at the Risk of Perishing

March 22, 2015

BBC, Martha Vineyard Times and the Hindustan Times all told her story. But for the first time, Noor Aftab writes the real life account of her life in 2010 – when U.N. termed it as the greatest tragedy on Earth. The July of 2010 the flood gates of Indus opened, all hell broke loose. 21 […]
Barack Obama in Hawai’i and Indonesia: The Making of a Global President

March 22, 2015

The first 18 years of President Obama’s life, from his birth in 1961 to his departure for college in 1979, were spent in Hawai‘i and Indonesia. These years fundamentally shaped the traits for which the adult Obama is noted—his protean identity, his nuanced appreciation of multiple views of the same object, his cosmopolitan breadth of […]
The Egyptian Book of the Dead

March 22, 2015

“Book of the Dead” is the title now commonly given to the great collection of funerary texts which the ancient Egyptian scribes composed for the benefit of the dead. These consist of spells and incantations, hymns and litanies, magical formulae and names, words of power and prayers, and they are found cut or painted on […]
Over the Beach: The Air War in Vietnam

March 22, 2015

“The Right Stuff without the hype, Yeager without the ego.”—Washington Post Book World “While the jet-jockey competitiveness, the undercurrent of fear, the victories and foul-ups of jet sweeps have been described many times, few such chronicles have done it so grippingly and with such a ring of accuracy. Mr. Grant explores the emotions felt not […]
Mien Relations: Mountain People and State Control in Thailand

March 22, 2015

Thailand’s hill tribes have been the object of anthropological research, cultural tourism, and government intervention for a century, in large part because these groups are held to have preserved distinctive ethnic traditions despite their contacts with “modern” culture. Hjorleifur Jonsson rejects the conventional notion that the worlds of traditional peoples are being transformed or undone […]
Lama of the Gobi: How Mongolia’s Mystic Monk Spread Tibetan Buddhism in the World’s Harshest Desert

March 22, 2015

Danzan Ravjaa is perhaps Mongolia’s most beloved saint. As a boy, he was only saved from Manchu execution by the intervention of the young Ninth Dalai Lama. He went on to become one of the greatest mystics and creative geniuses of his time. This book takes the reader on a journey through Mongolian history, Tibetan […]
Politics in Taiwan: Voting for Democracy

March 22, 2015

This book shows that Taiwan, unlike other countries, avoided serious economic disruption and social conflict, and arrived at its goal of multi-party competition with little blood shed. Nonetheless, this survey reveals that for those who imagine democracy to be the panacea for every social, economic and political ill, Taiwan’s continuing struggles against corruption, isolation and […]
Indiscreet Memories

March 22, 2015

Indiscreet Memories is one Englishman?s true account of life in Singapore from 1901 to 1904. We learn about balls at Government House, rickshaw strikes, and tigers causing havoc in Chinatown; and how historical events such as the death of Queen Victoria and the decision by Straits-born Chinese to discard their towchang (queues) affected the society […]
American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America (Critical American Studies)

March 22, 2015

In 1997, when the New York Times described Filipino American serial killer Andrew Cunanan as appearing “to be everywhere and nowhere,” Allan Punzalan Isaac recognized confusion about the Filipino presence in the United States, symptomatic of American imperialism’s invisibility to itself. In American Tropics, Isaac explores American fantasies about the Philippines and other “unincorporated” parts […]

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