Christians and Public Life in Colonial South India, 1863-1937

Contending with Marginality

By Chandra Mallampalli

This book tells the story of how Catholic and Protestant Indians have attempted to locate themselves within the evolving Indian nation. Ironically, British rule in...

2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-32321-5 (Routledge)

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Truth, History and Politics in Mongolia

Memory of Heroes

By Christopher Kaplonski

Using Mongolia as its example, this book examines how knowledge is transmitted and transformed in light of political change by looking at shifting conceptions of...

2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-30798-7 (Routledge)

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The Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1902-1922

By Phillips O'Brien

The Anglo-Japanese Alliance was the first formal agreement of its type reached by a Western 'great' power with a non-Caucasian nation in the modern era....

2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-32611-7 (Routledge)

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Samurai, Warfare and the State in Early Medieval Japan

By Karl F. Friday

Karl Friday, an internationally recognised authority on Japanese warriors, provides the first comprehensive study of the topic to be published in English. This work incorporates...

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32963-7 (Routledge)

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Hong Kong's Tortuous Democratization

A Comparative Analysis

By Ming Sing

This book raises interesting questions about the process of democratization in Hong Kong. It asks why democracy has been so long delayed when Hong Kong's...

2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-32054-2 (Routledge)

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Modern South Asia

History, Culture, Political Economy

By Sugata Bose, Ayesha Jalal

Jointly written by two leading Indian and Pakistani historians, Modern South Asia offers a rare depth of historical understanding of the politics, cultures and economies...

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-30787-1 (Routledge)

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The Regency of Tunis and the Ottoman Porte, 1777-1814

Army and Government of a North-African Eyâlet at the End of the Eighteenth Century

By Asma Moalla

This study of the Tunisian army and government in the time of the pasha-bey Hammûda the Husaynid (1777--1814) stresses the deeply Ottoman character of these...

2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-29781-3 (Routledge)

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Did Singapore Have to Fall?

Churchill and the Impregnable Fortress

By Kevin Blackburn, Karl Hack

This book provides a sophisticated summary of up-to-date knowledge on the Fall of Singapore, including the critical tensions between Churchill and local commanders. A focus...

2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-30803-8 (Routledge)

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Korea's Development Under Park Chung Hee

By Hyung-A Kim

Based on personal interviews with the principal policy-makers of the 1970s, Korea's Development under Park Chung-Hee examines how the president sought to develop South Korea...

2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-32329-1 (Routledge)

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Asian Democracy in World History

By Alan T. Wood

Taking a comparative approach, Alan T. Wood traces the evolution of democracy from its origins in prehistoric times and describes democratic growth in thirteen Asian...

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-22943-2 (Routledge)

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