Portuguese and amsterdam sephardic merchants in the tobacco trade

The book surveys the role of Portuguese and Sephardic merchants in the contraband tobacco trade in the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Atlantic world. It offers a historical-geographic perspective linking Amsterdam as an emerging staple market to a network of merchants of the “Portu...

Quebec and the heritage of franco-america

This book marks the 400th anniversary of the founding of Quebec. It consists of six essays by a team of contributors drawn from Quebec, the United States, France, and the United Kingdom.

Religious exchange and identities in europe

This volume examines historical religious contact, transfer and debate among the diverse ramifications of Christianity in Europe and the role that the often forgotten Byzantine empire and its versions of the Christian faith played in these processes.

Inside australian culture

‘Inside Australian Culture: Legacies of Enlightenment Values’ offers a critical intervention into the effects of colonialism in Australia, which continue to inform and dominate its public culture and institutions. Through an analysis of three significant moments in Australian history, the authors...

The uses of literacy in colonial australia

Relying on autobiographical documents, this book analyses what Australians read in the 19th century, as well as what they wrote, in terms of personal and everyday, non-literary writings. It emphasises the Britishness of colonial society, without forgetting specifically Australian inflections of r...

Gender, crime and empire

Examines the experiences of the convict men and women transported to the British penal colony of Van Diemen’s Land between 1803 and 1852, challenging the received notions of convict women as a particularly oppressed and exploited group, supposedly dominated by convict men as much as by the imperi...

The elite center cannot hold

A resurgent liberalism has become hegemonic in Philippine media and academic discourses, which were previously characterized by progressive and nationalist perspectives. While resurgent Philippine liberalism (RPL) has been precipitated by recent and current crises.

Transformation of indigenous north america

This is a book about the adaptation of Indigenous groups in North America (Mexico, USA, Canada) and their interrelatedness to each other and outside influences over time.

The ahmadis and the politics of religious exclusion in pakistan

This path-breaking work traces the history of the political exclusion of the Ahmadiyya religious minority in Pakistan, drawing on revealing new sources and connecting its discussion to larger issues of Islam in postcolonial Muslim nation-states. Winner of the Karachi Literary Festival Peace Prize...

The vanishing indian upper class

The Vanishing Indian Upper Class is based on a life-narrative [true-life story] and contains various elements of history, politics, religion, literature and poetry. In anonymized form it dramatizes a personal family history focused around a continuing and unresolved family inheritance and propert...

Colonialism and transnational psychiatry

This book provides an in-depth case study of a psychiatric institution within the context of colonial rule during the early twentieth century. It focuses on patient statistics, medical treatments and diagnoses, and considers the ‘indigenisation’ or ‘Indianisation’ of the colonial medical services...

Nationalizing the body

‘Nationalizing the Body’ examines the different meanings of ‘modern medicine’ that were employed in colonial South Asia, and explores the different discourses that were constructed around ‘modernity’.

Britain in india, 1858–1947

‘Britain in India, 1858–1947’ examines the last ninety years of British India, from the establishment of Crown rule after the Mutiny to withdrawal and partition in 1947.

Calcutta mosaic

‘Calcutta Mosiac’ explores the history of the diverse immigrant communities of this great city.

Citizenship and statelessness in sri lanka

‘Citizenship and Statelessness in Sri Lanka’ analyses the context of the agreement between the Sri Lankan and Indian government that led to the loss of citizenship of Indian Tamil estate workers in Sri Lanka.

Fortified cities of ancient india

Based on solid textual and archeological research, this volume offers a comparative exploration of the development of towns and cities in ancient India.

Statemaking and territory in south asia

This volume seeks to understand how European colonization transformed the organization of territory in South Asia through an examination of the territorial disputes that underlay the Anglo–Gorkha War of 1814–1816 and subsequent efforts of the colonial state to reorder its territories.

Indian democracy

‘Indian Democracy’ is an attempt to understand the development of democratic polity in India.

Communication and colonialism in eastern india

This volume offers a detailed analysis of colonial policies in respect to communication in India – via roads, ferries, steamships and railways – and reveals how communication became an integral part of colonial governance in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Learning femininity in colonial india, 1820–1932

WINNER of the Anne Bloomfield Triennial book prize awarded by the HES (UK) for best history of education book published between 2014 and 2017This book explores the colonial mentalities that shaped and were shaped by women living in colonial India between 1820 and 1932. Using a broad framework t...

Archaeology in the borderlands

Traditionally portrayed as either a well-trod highway linking southwest Asia and the Eurasian Steppe or an isolated periphery of the ancient world. This book re-examines traditional archaeological work in the region by an international group of scholars from the Caucasus, its neighbors, Europe, a...

Missionaries and their medicine

Missionaries and their Medicine is a lucid and enthralling study of the encounter between Christian missionaries and an Indian tribal community, the Bhils, in the period 1880 to 1964.

Regional archaeology in eastern inner mongolia

Published in China in 2003, this book presents maps and discussion of changing settlement patterns through seven thousand years across an intensively surveyed area of 765 square kilometers in northeastern China.

Archaeology of the chinese bronze age

Analyzing the complexity of early Chinese culture history, and the variety and development of its urban formations, Roderick Campbell explores East Asia's divergent developmental paths and re-examines its deep past to contribute to a more nuanced understanding of China's Early Bronze Age.

Chinese society in the age of confucius (1000-250 bc)

The treatment of social stratification, clan and lineage organisation, as well as gender and ethnic differences will be of interest to those involved in the general or comparative analysis of grand themes in the Social Sciences.

Chinese archaeological abstracts, 2

An account of the remarkable decade of Chinese archaeology from 1972 to 1981, as abstracted from Chinese journals. Volume 2, Prehistoric to Western Zhou, contains abstracts of over 110 articles describing excavations at sites ranging from Paleolithic through Western Zhou.

Religion, law and power

Examines the interplay of distinct yet overlapping facets of history, Hinduism, the state and the nation in Eastern India.

Ban chiang, northeast thailand, volume 2

Comprehensive catalogs of metal artifacts, metallic by-products, crucibles, and analyzed prills from Ban Chiang, Ban Tong, Ban Phak Top, and Don Klang. The detailed catalogs include contextual, metric, and analytical data, facilitating archaeological and technical interpretation. Includes illustr...

Modern mongolia

The emergence of china

It contains more than 500 translated excerpts from the classical texts, linked by a running commentary which traces the evolution and interaction of the different schools of thought.

Threads of globalization

Threads of globalization is an interdisciplinary volume that brings fashion-specific garments, motifs, materials, and methods of production—into dialogue with gender and identity in various cultures throughout Asia during the long twentieth century.

Culture, ideology, hegemony

Meticulously researched and lucidly argued, this analysis is illuminated by a rare sensitivity to the nature of class formation and class values, as well as to the material conditions of human existence.

Inventing subjects

A Marxist-Feminist perspective on the development of socio-cultural formations in colonial India.

Confronting colonialism

A rare insight into a turning point of Indian history, commemorating the second centenary of Tipu's final battle against the British at Sriranagapatnam in 1799.

New frontiers

Examines European, American and Japanese communities in China and Korea, and challenges received notions of agency and collaboration by also looking at the roles in China of British and Japanese colonial subjects from Korea, Taiwan and India, and at Chinese Christians and White Russian refugees.

Confronting the body

A key South Asian Studies title that brings together some of the best new writing on physicality in colonial India.

Colonial childhoods

An exploration of the shaping of childhood in the colonial period.

Colonialism as civilizing mission

A fresh and stimulating examination of the ideology, programmes, expressions and consequences of the British 'civilizing mission' in South Asia.

European trade and colonial conquest

A book on the evolution of Bengal's economy and society before colonisation, beginning from pre-historic days.

South asian media cultures

'South Asian Media Cultures' examines a wide range of media cultures and practices from across South Asia, using a common set of historical, political and theoretical engagements.

Reconfiguring the silk road

Explores trade and cultural interactions from the Bronze Age to the Middle Ages, examining Silk Road economies, social structures, and the spread of ideas, goods, and technologies. Topics include the Tarim Basin populations, textile manufacturing, domestication of grains and horses, and the dispe...

Essays in indian history

This volume offers a collection of several of Professor Habib's essays, providing an insightful interpretation of the main currents in Indian history.

The making of history

This volume comprises essays from scholars around the world representing the wide range of Habib's interests and contributions.

Ritual and economy in east asia

This volume assembles eighteen scholarly essays that explore the intersection between art, economy, and ritual in ancient East Asia in the broad context of East Asian archaeology and its connection to the world beyond.

A significant season

Mad tales from the raj

This revised and enlarged reprint provides a comprehensive assessment of the British response to mental illness among both colonizers and the colonized during the East India Company's rule in India.

Civilizing missions in colonial and postcolonial south asia

This collection provides a historical exploration of the tensions and complexities of civilizing missions undertaken by British or Indian states or organizations in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Asia.

Bengal partition stories

Through oral histories, interviews and fictional retellings, 'Bengal Partition Stories' unearths and articulates the collective memories of a people traumatised by the brutal division of their homeland.

Subaltern sports

A unique volume about the relationship between politics and sport in South Asia.

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This volume publishes new research results in the zooarchaeology of southwest Asia and adjacent areas. The three main themes of the book are: new approaches in the study of animal remains; the subsistence economies of prehistoric and early complex societies; the roles of animals in the symbolic w...

Lang rongrien rockshelter

Lang Rongrien Rockshelter, Thailand's first stratified late Pleistocene site, is thoroughly explored in this volume. Based on 1980s excavations, Anderson reevaluates Pleistocene/Early Holocene human habitation in Southeast Asia, offering insights from the site's unique archaeological evidence.

Ban chiang, northeast thailand, volume 2a

Introduces the history of perspectives on ancient metals in Southeast Asia, challenging conventional paradigms and offering new theoretical insights. It explores the geological basis for metal ore resources in the region and provides a technical overview for studying material properties in ancien...

China’s peaceful rise

Can China peacefully attain great power status in the twenty-first century? Adopting a constructivist approach, the book argues that China's prospects for achieving great power status peacefully depend more on Chinese and international perceptions of China's rise/development than on concrete meas...

The abcs of cold war history

A short, but highly relevant, history of the Cold War, 1919–1994, and its significance today. The 75-year Cold War pitted the Anglo-American world against the Soviet Bloc, with China, the ultimate prize.

Railway imperialism in china

Railway imperialism in China: A political biography is the first and most comprehensive book on history and politics of all major railways in China from the late Qing to the post-Mao era. It investigates the transformation of railways from a bête noire within discussions about reform to the emble...

Britain in china

This is a study of Britain's presence in China both at its peak, and during its inter-war dissolution in the face of assertive Chinese nationalism and declining British diplomatic support. Using archival materials from China and records in Britain and the United States, the author paints a portra...

The world of wu zhao

This annotated translation of Zhang Zhuo’s collection of miscellany, Court and Country, offers a lively, folksy, and novel perspective on the empire of Wu Zhao, China’s first and only female emperor, that will amuse and shock readers, prompting them to recalibrate everything they think they know ...

The creation of modern china, 1894–2008

No country has undergone a greater period of sustained and convulsive change than China in the twentieth century. This is its story, tracing the emergence of a modern China.

Taiwan straits standoff

Following the Nationalist defeat on the mainland in 1949, Chiang Kai-shek and his followers retreated to Taiwan, forming the Republic of China (ROC). Tensions with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) focused on control over a number of offshore islands, especially Quemoy (Jinmen) and Matsu (Mazu...

India and china: interactions through buddhism and diplomacy

This volume collates the classic works of the preeminent Indian scholar of Chinese history and Buddhism, Professor Prabodh Chandra Bagchi (1898–1956).

A narrative of cultural encounter in southern china

Using a local land reclamation project of the later eighth century, this book explores the interaction between a local culture of the southeast coast and the Sinitic culture of the north.

Friends and enemies

‘Friends and Enemies’ delivers a thorough account of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), explaining its origins and evolution, looking at options for its future, and laying bare its inner workings.

Churchill, eden and indo-china, 1951-1955

'Churchill, Eden and Indo-China, 1951-1955' provides a historical analysis of the administrations of Churchill and Eden, focusing on the broad international context of decolonized Indo-China.