Asian history Books

Essai sur le Veda est un livre �����crit par Emile Burnouf en 1863. Il s'agit d'un essai sur la religion hindoue et plus sp�����cifiquement sur les textes sacr�����s appel�����s Veda. Burnouf y explore les diff�����rentes parties du Veda, leur...

Historia Antigua De M�����xico V2 (1826) es un libro escrito por Francesco Saverio Clavigero que se centra en la historia antigua de M�����xico. En este segundo volumen, Clavigero describe la historia de la civilizaci������n mexicana desde la llegada de...

Etudes Sur Les Reformateurs V1, Part 1 (1864) est un livre �����crit par Louis Reybaud. Il s'agit d'une �����tude sur les r�����formateurs, qui sont des personnes qui ont travaill����� ������ am�����liorer la soci�����t����� dans laquelle ils vivaient...

Le Tr�����ne Enchant����� est un conte indien traduit du persan par Daniel Lescallier en 1817. L'histoire suit l'aventure de deux fr�����res, Azad Bakht et Azad Jamshid, qui se disputent le tr�����ne de leur p�����re. Azad Bakht, le fils a�����n�����,...

Des R�����formes en Russie (1862) est un livre �����crit par Vladimirovic, Dolgorukov et Petr qui explore les r�����formes politiques et sociales en Russie au milieu du XIXe si�����cle. Les auteurs d�����crivent les changements �����conomiques,...

Essai Sur La Theorie Des Proportions Chimiques Et Sur L'Influence Chimique De L'Electricite (1819) est un livre �����crit par Berzelius, Jons Jakob. Dans ce livre, l'auteur explore la th�����orie des proportions chimiques et l'influence de...

Das Buch ""Beitr�����ge zur Ortsnamenkunde Tirols"" wurde 1893 von Christian Schneller ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich um eine Studie zur Herkunft und Bedeutung von Ortsnamen in Tirol. Der Autor untersucht die verschiedenen Sprachen, die in der...

Das Buch ""Das Delphische Orakel In Seinem Politischen, Religiosen Und Sittlichen Einfluss Auf Die Alte Welt"" von Wilhelm Gotte aus dem Jahr 1839 besch�����ftigt sich mit der Bedeutung des Delphischen Orakels in der antiken Welt. Der Autor untersucht...

Das Buch ""Leben Des Kaisers Taokuang"" wurde im Jahr 1852 von Karl Gutzlaff ver������ffentlicht. Es beschreibt das Leben des chinesischen Kaisers Taokuang, der von 1820 bis 1850 regierte. Gutzlaff, ein deutscher Missionar und Sinologe, beschreibt in dem...

""Coutumes Du Pays Et Comte De Hainaut"" est un livre �����crit par Charles Jean Baptiste Florian Faider en 1883. Ce livre traite des coutumes et traditions du Pays et Comt����� de Hainaut, une r�����gion historique situ�����e dans le nord de la Belgique...

This volume brings together scholarship on indigenous forms of travel to decolonize travel theory.

This book discusses terrorism and the rise of Hindu nationalism in contemporary India and examines how this movement has become a threat to democracy in that country.

This book is a collection of essays by prominent thinkers on the historist and humanist transcendence of the caste system such that an authentic democracy can bloom in India. It locates caste as not only a social problem, but a moral evil and...

This book is one of the rare collections where black magic, occult practices and witchcraft are recorded and academically analyzed.

This book is an attempt to present the inside story of the Telangana movement that developed due to historical reasons.

In the time of agrarian crisis and movement, Remembering India's Villages centralises the rural India-examining its stubborn past and dynamic present.

This book traces the contribution of Punjabis born before the Partition of India in 1947 to Indian cinema. It examines the story of their contributions at three centres of Hindustani-language films: Bombay, Calcutta and Lahore.

This book attempts a re-reading of this inscription and also provides a fresh interpretation. It tries to situate this record in a broader canvas by interrogating the record along with several other evidence.

This book on urban water bodies, catchment areas and drainage pattern is set against the backdrop of the unprecedented heavy rainfall that severely deluged metropolitan cities and other parts of India in recent years.

This book offers a deeper historical context to the interplay between the physical fortunes of climate and weather and the ways in which the Tamil society experienced it in the medieval and early modern ages.

This book explores nuances of various narratives on long-term transcultural exchanges between Africa and South Asia with a special focus on India. It explores the ways in which Africa and Africans have been narrated in South Asian history and culture.It...

This book focuses on India's foreign policy towards Sri Lanka before the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord (ISLA) in July 1987 and India's military intervention after the ISLA.

Sustainable Development in India and South-East Asia attempts to explore and analyse the nature of economic relationship between India and the South-East Asia. It assesses the prospects for this relationship to grow and flourish.

This book examines key aspects of the Asia Pacific War (1931-1945), that was initially waged between Japan and China, before Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor drew in the U.S.-led allied forces from 1941 to 1945.

This book makes a systematic attempt to explore the environmental history of Darjeeling during the British colonial period (1835-1947).

This book analyses when, how, why, and to what effect China has used its armed forces in recent decades to coerce other actors in the international system.

This is the first book-length, English-language translation of the work of this high-profile, prolific New Woman writer from Northeast China.

This book looks at India of the 1950s and 60s and critically explores the history of nationalism and identity in Northeastern India, through the personal history of the first Manipuri (Meitei) direct recruit in the Indian Administrative Services.

This book presents the socio-cultural and historical trajectories of the Deccan plateau as well as the coastal areas of the current states of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Goa. It studies the art of diplomacy by discussing the diplomatic...

The book is a comprehensive study of border-related issues arising from the 1947 Partition of India.

This book highlights emerging trends and new themes in South Asian history. It covers issues broadly related to religion, materiality and nature from differing perspectives and methods to offer a kaleidoscopic view of Indian history until the late...

This book critically examines different aspects of scientific and technological development in Ancient India. It studies the special contribution of the history of science in our scientific understanding and its relationship with the philosophy and...

This book describes the interactions between various civilizations and societies along the Silk Road between 500 BCE and 1500 CE, the period from the first encounters of the ancient Greek and Persian civilizations to the time when maritime exchanges...

This is the first full-length history of early Kashmir locating it beyond its regional context, from pre-history to the 13th century. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of history, archaeology, and South Asian studies.

This book attempts to provide a comprehensive understanding of the circumstances which have shaped India's approach towards its international borders and the framework it has developed to better manage its borders.

Written by one of Japan' most popular modern authors, this is a lively, readable, and immensely entertaining fictional portrayal of one of the epochal events of the nineteenth century.

Japan's ability to develop its own brand of modernity has often been attributed in part to the sophistication of its cities. Concentrating on Kyoto, Edo and Tokyo, the contributors to this volume weave together the links between past and future, memory...

This book presents a selection of essays from Takeshi Hamashita's ouevre on Asian trade to introduce this important historian's work on China and East Asia's incorporation to the world economy to the English speaking reader.

This edited work explains why the history of suffrage is neglected in the nationalist historiography and untangles the connections between culture, nationalism and colonialism in the context of women's struggles for suffrage.

This edited volume describes the intellectual world that developed in China in the last decade of the twentieth century

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the...

This is Volume I of Miscellaneous Papers Relating to Indo-China and the Indian Archipelago, which is part of a series of seven on SouthEast Asia. Originally published in 1887, these papers are from the 'journals' of the Royal Asiatic, Bengal Asiatic and...

First published in 1926.'These documents are full of intimate interest' Times Literary Supplement'A serious and intensely interesting piece of work' The GuardianThe Jesuit missionaries were some of the earliest Europeans to find their way into the Mogul...

First published in 1929, this title presents some reflections from one of the leading cultural commenters of his day, Edwyn Bevan, on the notoriously controversial subject of burgeoning Indian Nationalism during the twilight of the British Empire...

The Return of the Buddha traces the development of Buddhist archaeology in colonial India, examines its impact on the reconstruction of India's Buddhist past, and the making of a public and academic discourse around these archaeological discoveries. The...

Between Love and Freedom interprets the figure of the revolutionary in the Hindi novel by establishing its lineage in representative Bengali novels, as well as in the contending moralities of Mahatma Gandhi and Bhagat Singh on the idea of violence. It...

Ramchandra Gandhi, famous for his rich and varied interests, left behind a large corpus of writings, both philosophical and non-philosophical. Introducing the readers to the creative Indian philosopher, this volume highlights the principal thrust of his...