Central Asia | Asian History Books

Afghanistan: The Bear Trap: The Defeat of a Superpower

March 25, 2015

How did the horrendous situation in Afghanistan, with all its implications for recent events and the present time, come to pass? What was the role of the CIA and Pakistani intelligence in the creation of what became the Taliban? What are the implications for the future and lessons from the past for American forces today?This […]
China Rising: Peace, Power, and Order in East Asia

March 25, 2015

Throughout the past three decades East Asia has seen more peace and stability than at any time since the Opium Wars of 1839-1841. During this period China has rapidly emerged as a major regional power, averaging over nine percent economic growth per year since the introduction of its market reforms in 1978. Foreign businesses have […]
Classical Chinese Literature

March 25, 2015

The summation of more than two thousand years of one of the world’s most august literary traditions, this volume also represents the achievements of four hundred years of Western scholarship on China. The selections include poetry, drama, fiction, songs, biographies, and works of early Chinese philosophy and history rendered in English by the most renowned […]
Nepal- A Brief History

March 25, 2015

Discover the rich and distinct history and culture of Nepal. Photographs and maps put this unique place into the appropriate perspective. Sale Price:buy at discount B005FRFRAG
The Lion, the Sun and the Eternal Blue Sky

March 25, 2015

The Mongols are often demonised for their assault on the Persian Empire. According to some sources, the destruction of Baghdad with its attendant loss of life was the greatest disaster ever to befall a country or a people. The century-long reign of the Persian Il-khans they regard as a period of oppression and economic failure, […]
Kings of the Forest: The Cultural Resilience of Himalayan Hunter-Gatherers

March 25, 2015

In today’s world hunter-gatherer societies struggle with seemingly insurmountable problems: deforestation and encroachment, language loss, political domination by surrounding communities. Will they manage to survive? This book is about one such society living in the monsoon rainforests of western Nepal: the Raute. “Kings of the Forest” explores how this elusive ethnic group, the last hunter-gatherers […]
Under Solomon’s Throne: Uzbek Visions of Renewal in Osh (Central Eurasia in Context)

March 25, 2015

Winner of the 2014 Central Eurasian Studies Society Book Award in the Social Sciences.Under Solomon’s Throne provides a rare ground-level analysis of post-Soviet Central Asia’s social and political paradoxes by focusing on an urban ethnic community: the Uzbeks in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, who have maintained visions of societal renewal throughout economic upheaval, political discrimination, and massive […]
Ancient Perspectives: Maps and Their Place in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome (The Kenneth Nebenzahl Jr. Lectures in the History of Cartography)

March 25, 2015

Ancient Perspectives encompasses a vast arc of space and time—Western Asia to North Africa and Europe from the third millennium BCE to the fifth century CE—to explore mapmaking and worldviews in the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. In each society, maps served as critical economic, political, and personal tools, but there was […]
Afghanistan: The Bear Trap: The Defeat of a Superpower

March 25, 2015

How did the horrendous situation in Afghanistan, with all its implications for recent events and the present time, come to pass? What was the role of the CIA and Pakistani intelligence in the creation of what became the Taliban? What are the implications for the future and lessons from the past for American forces today?This […]
China Rising: Peace, Power, and Order in East Asia

March 25, 2015

Throughout the past three decades East Asia has seen more peace and stability than at any time since the Opium Wars of 1839-1841. During this period China has rapidly emerged as a major regional power, averaging over nine percent economic growth per year since the introduction of its market reforms in 1978. Foreign businesses have […]

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