2015 | Asian History Books

Healthy Democracies: Welfare Politics in Taiwan And South Korea

March 25, 2015

Do the pressures of economic globalization undermine the welfare state? Contrary to the expectations of many analysts, Taiwan and South Korea have embarked on a new trajectory, toward a strengthened welfare state and universal inclusion. In Healthy Democracies, Joseph Wong offers a political explanation for health care reform in these two countries. He focuses specifically […]
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 […]
Mohajir Militancy in Pakistan: Violence and Transformation in the Karachi Conflict (Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series)

March 25, 2015

Synthesizing political, anthropological and psychological perspectives, this book addresses the everyday causes and appeal of long-term involvement in extreme political violence in urban Pakistan. Taking Pakistan’s ethno nationalist Mohajir party, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) as a case study, it explores how certain men from the ethnic community of Mohajirs are recruited to the roles […]
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives (Cambridge World Encyclopedias)

March 25, 2015

This book offers for the first time a comprehensive study of South Asia in one volume, analyzing not only the riches of the past but also the problems and achievements of the present, placing them where appropriate in their global context. The South Asian region, which comprises the present day states of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, […]
YOU’LL DIE IN SINGAPORE

March 25, 2015

Weakened by hunger, thirst and ill-treatment, Charles McCormac, a World War Two prisoner-of-war in Japanese-occupied Singapore, knew that if he did not escape he’d die. With sixteen others he broke out of Pasir Panjang camp and began the two-thousand-mile escape from Singapore to Australia. Sale Price:$12.49 1844155404
The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden

March 25, 2015

From Mark Bowden, the preeminent chronicler of our military and special forces, comes The Finish, a gripping account of the hunt for Osama bin Laden. With access to key sources, Bowden takes us inside the rooms where decisions were made and on the ground where the action unfolded.After masterminding the attacks of September 11, 2001, […]
The Voyage of John Huyghen van Linschoten to the East Indies: The first book, containing his description of the East. Volume 2

March 25, 2015

This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1885 edition by The Hakluyt Society, London. Sale Price:$12.20 1402195060
War, Memory and the Making of Modern Malaysia and Singapore

March 25, 2015

Singapore fell to Japan on 15 February 1942. Within days, the Japanese had massacred thousands of Chinese civilians, and taken prisoner more than 100,000 British, Australian and Indian soldiers. A resistance movement formed in Malaya’s jungle-covered mountains, but the vast majority could do little other than resign themselves to life under Japanese rule. The Occupation […]
Taiwan’s Democracy: Economic and Political Challenges (Routledge Research on Taiwan Series)

March 25, 2015

Taiwan’s rapid industrialization during the 1960s and 1970s, combined with the democratic revolution that began with the lifting of martial law in 1987 were of deep historic importance. Over the next decade Taiwan’s “political miracle” matched its earlier “economic miracle” creating a vibrant liberal democracy complete with freedom of speech, association and assembly, rule of […]
East Asia: Tradition and Transformation

March 25, 2015

GENERAL HISTORY OF THE CIVILIZATIONS OF THE FAR EAST Sale Price:$29.99 039525812X

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