An accomplished linguist and writer, A.B. Mitford was the outstanding chronicler of the Meiji Restoration, complementing......more

Focuses on the influence of a widely copied but largely unstudied text, ’The Twelve Abuses of the Age’ with a multi-nati......more

This book explores the new interactions between Asia and Africa beyond the frequent narrow focus on China-Africa....more

This text critically explores Global Asia and the metropolization process, specifically from its alleyways, which are un......more

This book focuses on expressions of an empowered Asian self-representation at world’s fairs in the West after the so-cal......more

Beyond Borders: Indians, Australians and the Indonesian Revolution, 1939 to 1950 rediscovers an intense internationalism......more

Here is a cri de coeur from almost the last survivor of post-war European sociologists and scholars of Japanese Studies.......more

Empire-building did not only involve the use of excessive violence against native communities, but also required the gat......more

This book investigates the role imaginings of the European past since the eighteenth century played in the construction ......more

This text explores issues related to the global crises of our time: reason, science, and the environment by revisiting t......more

This book analyses labour market changes in eighteen countries and shows that the most important factor in explaining wh......more

This volume discusses how Japan responds to a more threatening security environment while managing its domestic politics......more

The formal diplomatic relations between Japan and Western nations dawned when the first American consul-general Townsend......more

This important new study by one of Korea’s leading historians focuses on the international relations of colonial Korea -......more

This book analyses what Myanmar’s struggle for democracy has signified to Burmese activists and democratic leaders, and ......more

Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema: Poetics of Space, Sound, and Stability rethinks theory and style through......more

The book describes the main semiotic concepts that can be used to analyse space, illustrating them with carefully chosen......more

This book examines how the Netherlands managed to create and maintain one of the world’s most generous and inclusive wel......more

Rutherford Alcock became a battlefield surgeon, working in Portugal and Spain during the civil wars in the 1830s. This b......more

This work records a dialogue between two eminent Japanese scholars - a political historian and a political scientist - r......more

During the 24-year Indonesian occupation of East Timor, thousands of people died, or were killed, in circumstances that ......more

This book examines Singapore through its imaginative representations, revealing a vital perceptual layer beyond physical......more

Using new, international source material, this book digs deeply into the history of the Netherlands in Europe - a subjec......more

This author of this book argues that while generally ulamas, or religious teachers, had to support state ideologies, the......more

This book is a contribution to an aesthetics of cinema rooted in Marxist theory. Rather than focusing on the role that c......more

Witty, learned excursion into the world of humour and comic literature as revealed by works of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, ......more

While Turkey in recent years has experienced an exhaustive accession process to join the EU -a long desired aim-, at the......more

Here is a history of the South China Sea (SCS) conflict and the stakes for each of the bordering states and China’s (PRC......more

Considering the current climate of the treatment of women in Hollywood following the Harvey Weinstein case, many male ce......more

Already celebrated as a busy entrepôt and the most glorious of the Malay kingdoms of the past, Melaka has been on the UN......more

Development Zones in Asian Borderlands maps the nexus between global capital flows, national economic policies, infrastr......more

This book details the political history of Timor-Leste, both preceding and following its declaration of independence....more

The contributions in this volume provide critical insights into how the changing state-civil society relationship affect......more

This book presents a close look at the growth, success, and proliferation of ethnic politics on the peripheries of moder......more

This collection focuses on difficult memories and diverse identities related to conflicts and localized politics of memo......more

Zomia is a term coined in 2002 to describe the broad swath of mountainous land in Southeast Asia that has always been be......more

This book examines radical media ecologies as guerrilla networks, emphasising the proximity and inseparability of radica......more

This book analyzes these three centuries of Japan-Russia relations so as not to miss out any essential factors of the re......more

This book examines the Kashmir dispute from a borderland perspective, adopting the novel approach of understanding the c......more

This book tells the story of the negotiations between China, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Vietnam and other Southeast......more

Medieval states are widely assumed to have lacked police forces. Yet in the Italian city-republics, soldiers patrolled t......more

Based on a collaboration between historians of Chinese and European politics, Political Communication in Chinese and Eur......more

Governments increasingly become aware of irregular immigration and are forced to re-negotiate the dilemma of open but se......more

The prison relies upon gruesome stories circulated as commercial media to legitimize its institutional reproduction. Thi......more

This book bridges area studies and International Relations literature to develop a set of objective criteria to measure ......more

Drawing on hundreds of newly released judicial archives and court cases, this book analyzes the communist judicial syste......more

A cohesive collection of studies by Japanese, Russian and Central Asian scholars deploying previously unexplored Russian......more

Since the 1990s, the Chinese-North Korean border region has undergone a gradual transformation into a site of intensifie......more

Since 2003 and following the U.S.-led invasion, Iraq witnessed tremendous changes to its political, social, and economic......more

A historical recount on the development of Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party PAS and how it rose to become the most prominent ......more

This book offers a critical exploration of the emergence and establishment of temporary urbanism, as a seductive discour......more

This volume examines how power was framed in Visigothic society and how a diverse population with a complex and often co......more

By examining intellectuals’ thoughts, common people’s attitudes, and official opinions, along with the social-cultural f......more

This book is about how in the Dutch scene, the early internet was intimately tied to the aesthetics and politics of squa......more

This book aims to understand the motives of religious fanatics’ and their extreme reactions to religious satire and crit......more

This collection adopts a transnational approach that highlights the complexity of Timor-Leste’s road to independence....more

This book approaches gameplay as a set of practices and a global industry that includes diverse participation from playe......more

Growing Up Communist in the Netherlands and Britain: Childhood, Political Activism, and Identity Formation documents com......more

This Handbook focuses on Japan’s public administration and bureaucracy at its national level, and the effects of nationa......more

Researched through long-term detailed ethnography in the former royal capital of Luang Prabang, itself a UNESCO-recogniz......more

This book offers a comprehensive reconstruction of the Italian geo-political map focused on courts (thirteenth - sevente......more

The only booklength account of collective remembering and analysis of how the 1989 Beijing student movement and the Tian......more

This volume focuses on the portant challenge of the less successful educational outcomes of second-generation migrants....more

This book traces the evolution of this growing branch of diplomacy and examines the role it has played in the foreign po......more

This work of historical sociology explores the nature of this colonial citizenship and enables comparisons with British ......more

Sorge’s activities between 1930 and 1942 have tended to be lauded as those of a superlative human intelligence operator ......more

This book brings together high-quality research articles in order to examine one aspect of the political mechanism of mo......more

The Chinese Communist Youth League is the largest youth political organization in the world, with over 80 million member......more

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Media Realities in Global Perspective is an intellectual intervention into today’s most urgent debates about truth, perc......more

Media Realities in Global Perspective is an intellectual intervention into today’s most urgent debates about truth, perc......more

Socialism, Communism, and Anarchism were integral components of 19th and 20th century immigrant life. Red America explor......more

Central Asia is at the forefront of China’s efforts to assert itself as a major world power. Since 1991, Beijing has eme......more

Ethnic Minorities in Israel and Turkey: Inside Outsiders offers a compelling comparative analysis of state-minority rela......more

Originally published in 1985, this book examines the concepts underlying the notion of national liberation and compares ......more