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Global Studies: India and South Asia (Global Studies India and South Asia)
James K Norton

McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, 2007

Global Studies is a unique series designed to provide comprehensive background information and selected world press articles on the regions and countries of the world. Each Global Studies volume includes an annotated listing of World Wide Web sites. Global Studies titles are supported with study tools and links to related websites at our student website www.mhcls.com/online/.

Modern East Asia
Conrad Schirokauer, Clark

Wadsworth Publishing, 2007

This compelling text explores the development of China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam from their traditions and commonalties in 1600, through industrialization and state building, to each country's response to modernization in a global environment. This author team combines strong research with extensive classroom teaching experience to offer a clear, consistent, and highly readable text that is accessible to students with no previous knowledge of ...

Central Asia (Lonely Planet Travel Guides)

9 reviews
Bradley Mayhew

Lonely Planet, 2007

Excellent guide to central asia
Once again Lonely Planet has done a very good job. This guide is the best introduction to the five Central Asian countries. I used it in Tajikistan recently and intend to use it again.

When Asia Was the World

10 reviews
Stewart Gordon

Da Capo Press, 2007

Geography and history fans will love this book.
Geography and history fans will love this book. From 500 A.D. to 1500 A.D., Asia led the world and this book tells how and why."

History of Asia (6th Edition)

4 reviews
Rhoads Murphey

Longman, 2008

A great scholarly introduction to the history of Asia
I read this textbook in a junior-level undergraduate course on the history of Asia. Rhoads Murphey's text certainly has a tall task in covering 4,000 years of history in severally culturally distinct regions in Asia, but I thought he succeeded. Another reviewer has pointed out that Murphey does a very good job of focusing on themes and meaningful interpretation of historical trends. I agree, ...

Southeast Asia: On a Shoestring

17 reviews
China Williams

Lonely Planet, 2008

Perfect for budget travelers
I travel on a very tight budget and this book totally helped me out with hostels,restaurants, transportation to surrounding countries. Asia has to be one of the cheapest places to travel.

Modern East Asia: A Cultural, Social, and Political History

6 reviews
Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Anne Walthall, ...

Wadsworth Publishing, 2005

Great Book
Great book, the author is very clear and helpful and has a great way to organize the history of east asia

The Lost Heart of Asia (P.S.)

14 reviews
Colin Thubron

Harper Perennial, 2008

Desolation in lost heart
I've been thinking about Turkestan travel lately, not so much that I plan to do it in person, but more in terms of literature. The whole field of travel literature is such that there are distinct styles among the authors and it's pretty much up to you to select the style that you like. One style that I definitely don't like is the "Yuck" style guaranteed to wrinkle noses, elicit groans, turn ...

Modern South Asia: History, Culture and Political Economy

8 reviews
Sugata Bose

Routledge, 2003

Concise--Provides new perspectives on history of South Asia
I enjoyed reading this book, it is a concise and easy reading. It makes few but strong points--political economy of colonialism, freedom movement and also describes, what is known as the 'People's history' of South Asia. More focus has been given to Bengal, Punjab and Tamil Nadu. I wish there was some on more stuff on Sindh, NWFP, Nepal and so on. A must read for those who are inteested in South ...

East Asia: A New History (4th Edition)

5 reviews
Rhoads Murphey

Longman, 2006

An excellent primer on Asia by a humanist scholar and writer
Rhoads Murphey's East Asia: A New History covers everything a lay person needs and wants to know about this complex region and culture. This book is a fascinating and easy-to-read summary of Dr. Murphey's 60-year-long living and teaching experience in China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam and other Asian countries. It is an excellent introduction to Asia not just as a textbook but a very useful primer for ...

East Asia: Tradition and Transformation, Revised Edition

5 reviews
John Fairbank, Edwin Reischauer, ...

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1989

The Fruits of Pinyin
Having had my own problems with pinyin, I understand J Barry's frustration when he says: "This is a fine book, one I have assigned for years in my introductory classes along with deBary's Sources of Chinese Tradition Vol. 1. Now, however,there is a new edition of Sources using the newer pinyin romanization system. Reischauer still uses the old Wade-Giles system. So I can't assign it any longer - ...

Government and Politics in South Asia: Sixth Edition
Robert C Oberst, Charles H Kennedy, ...

Westview Press, 2008

This comprehensive but accessible text provides students with a systematic introduction to the comparative political study of the leading nations of South Asia: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal. The sixth edition is extensively revised and updated, benefiting from the fresh perspectives of several new members of the author team. New material includes a full section devoted exclusively to Nepal. Organized in parallel fashion to ...

The Middle East and Central Asia: An Anthropological Approach (4th Edition)

1 review
Dale F. Eickelman

Prentice Hall, 2001

Dense and complete
This book is quite dense. It makes for slow and contemplative reading. As a review of the anthropological literature of the Middle East, it should be a required text for any graduate or upper level undergraduate social sciences course focussing on the Middle East or Central Asia. Original source material is summarized and analyzed in comparison to other viewpoints, particularly across time. ...

The Emergence Of Modern Southeast Asia: A New History

1 review

University of Hawaii Press, 2004

The Most Comprehensive Book of its Kind
This is the most comprehensive introductory text on Southeast Asian History that I have come across in many years. Despite there being several survey books such as Mary Somers Heidhues' Southeast Asia - A Concise History an in-depth examination of the political and/or economic history of the Southeast Asia is much appreciated as a pedagogical tool. Owen's compilation is different from most ...

Southeast Asia: A Concise History

3 reviews
Mary Somer Heidhues

Thames & Hudson, 2001

To The Point
Despite there really only being about 10 or 11 countries in Southeast Asia, the diversity of the "space" under consideration seems to almost on purpose wish to confuse the student. The people of this region although similar on many levels are very different in just about every category making it very difficult to try a unifying description. There are very few comprehensive overviews of the region ...

East Asia at the Center

1 review
Warren I. Cohen

Columbia University Press, 2001

As epic in scope as East Asia itself
Mr. Cohen is an able historian. The 400 pages of history flow by effortlessly. One of the most interesting byproducts of such scale is that historic ebb and flow are easily seen. I especially liked how Mr. Cohen broke out different areas, like Japan, to focus on in context of the time being discussed. Take for example the cycles of military might and success, followed by decadence and the loss of ...

Religions of Asia

1 review
John Y. Fenton, Norvin Hein, ...

Bedford/St. Martin's, 1993

Religions of Asia
This is a textbook-type of book in the good sense of the term: it is well-written, information-packed, but yet relatively simply portrayed. A good introduction to the major religions of Asia. The focus is on the texts of each religion. What is missing is more discussion on how various elements of the population (underclass, women, etc.) incorporate the textual-based religous practices ...

Everyday Life in Central Asia: Past and Present

1 review

Indiana University Press, 2007

A Little Known Region
Zanca and Sahadeo have done an excellent job of collecting a series of essays that illuminate the everyday life lived by the peoples of Central Asia. The collection begins with an excellent essay on the history of Central Asia that makes a difficult subject understandable. Other essays are grouped about topics such as community, gender, performance and encounters, the nation state and, of course, ...

Everyday Life in South Asia

1 review

Indiana University Press, 2002

disappointingly okay
I had high hopes for this book given the two editors' own substantial and respective writings on India. However, this edited volume falls short as a satisfying volume for an undergraduate course on south Asia on many counts: 1) while the book was published in 2002, many of the articles refer to a decade or more in the past and thus do not express or animate contemporary Indian "everyday life." ...

East Asia: Identities and Change in the Modern World (1700 to Present)
R. Keith Schoppa

Prentice Hall, 2007

In East Asia : Identities and Change in the Modern World , accomplished historian R. Keith Schoppa uses the prism of cultural identities to examine the four countries that make up the East Asian cultural sphere?China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam?from roughly 1700 to the present. This book explores modern East Asian history through the themes of identities and change.

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