Search Results - Asia

Constructing East Asia technology, ideology, and empire in Japan's wartime era, 1931-1945 / by Moore, Aaron Stephen, 1972-

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Secret trades, porous borders smuggling and states along a Southeast Asian frontier, 1865-1915 / by Tagliacozzo, Eric

Subjects: “…Smuggling Southeast Asia History.…”
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Responding to the West essays on colonial domination and Asian agency /

Subjects: “…Colonies Asia.…”
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The Hellenistic settlements in the East from Armenia and Mesopotamia to Bactria and India by Cohen, Getzel M.

Subjects: “…Cities and towns, Ancient Asia, Central.…”
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Portuguese enterprise in the East survival in the years, 1707-1757 / by Sim, Teddy

Subjects: “…Portuguese Asia History 18th century.…”
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Civilizing missions in colonial and postcolonial South Asia from improvement to development /

“…Great Britain Colonies Asia Social policy.…”
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Reading the global troubling perspectives on Britain's empire in Asia / by Krishnan, Sanjay

“…Great Britain Colonies Asia History 19th century.…”
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Youth and empire : trans-colonial childhoods in British and French Asia / by Pomfret, David M., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : childhood and the reordering of empire -- Tropical childhoods : health, hygiene and nature -- Cultural contagions : children in the colonial home -- Magic islands : children on display in colonialisms' cultures -- Trouble in fairyland : cultures of childhood in interwar Asia -- Intimate heights : children, nature and colonial urban planning -- Sick traffic : 'child slavery' and imperial networks -- Class reactions : education and colonial 'comings of age' -- Raising Eurasia : childhood, youth and the mixed race question.…”
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Empires of love Europe, Asia, and the making of early modern identity / by Nocentelli, Carmen

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Imperial Gateway : Colonial Taiwan and Japan's Expansion in South China and Southeast Asia, 1895–1945 / by Shirane, Seiji, 1982-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Imperial Gateways in Regional Histories of Empire -- Opening a Gateway into South China -- Overseas Taiwanese in South China's Border Zones -- Overseas Taiwanese in Southeast Asia -- Mobilizing the Taiwanese for War -- Colonial Liaisons in Occupied South China -- Advancing into the Southern Regions -- Epilogue : Postwar Legacies of Taiwan's Gateway.…”
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Pacific Strife : The Great Powers and their Political and Economic Rivalries in Asia and the Western Pacific, 1870-1914 / by Dijk, C. van (Cornelis), 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Steam and Istmus canals -- Planters, traders and labour in the South Pacific -- Fiji: the start of Anglo-German rivalry in the Pacific -- The Somoa conflict -- Germany enters the colonial race -- The New Guinea protectorates -- Great Britain, Russia and the Central Asian question -- Samoa remains a source of international tension -- The emerging economic world powers -- Great Britain, France and Southeast Asia -- The French-expansion westwards into Southeast Asia -- Russia, Japan and the Chinese empire -- Thailand and beyond -- The scramble for China: the Bay of Jiaozhou and Port Arthur -- The British reaction: Wei-Hai-Wei -- The scramble for China continues: Guangzhouwan and Tibet -- The failed annexation of Hawaii -- The United States becomes a colonial empire -- The partition of Samoa -- The Russo-Japanese war -- Great Britain's search for secure colonial frontiers -- The United States, Japan and the Pacific Ocean -- Epilogue.…”
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Footfalls echo in the memory a life with the Colonial Education Service and the British Council in Asia / by Bickley, Verner Courtenay

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Renascent empire? the House of Braganza and the quest for stability in Portuguese monsoon Asia c.1640-1683 / by Ames, Glenn Joseph

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Emerging Memory : Photographs of Colonial Atrocity in Dutch Cultural Remembrance / by Bijl, Paul

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Outcasts of Empire : Japan's Rule on Taiwan's "Savage Border," 1874-1945 / by Barclay, Paul D., 1964-

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The Portuguese in the East a cultural history of a maritime trading empire / by Jayasuriya, Shihan de S.

“…Asia Civilization Portuguese influences.…”
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In search of moral authority the discourse on poverty, poor relief, and charity in French colonial Vietnam / by Nguyen-Marshall, Van, 1967-

“…France Colonies Asia History.…”
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Placing Empire : Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan / by McDonald, Kate, 1981-

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Races on display French representations of colonized peoples 1886-1940 / by Hale, Dana S.

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Empire's Violent End : Comparing Dutch, British, and French Wars of Decolonization, 1945–1962 /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Beyond the League Table of Barbarity : Comparing Extreme Violence during the Wars of Decolonization / Thijs Brocades Zaalberg and Bart Luttikhuis -- Not an Afterthought : Accountability for Colonial Violence in the Dutch and British Metropoles / Huw Bennett and Peter Romijn -- Windows onto the Micro-Dynamics of Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence : Evidence from Late Colonial Southeast Asia and Africa Compared / Roel Frakking and Martin Thomas -- Cracking Down on Revolutionary Zeal and Violence : Local Dynamics and Early Colonial Responses to the Independence Struggle in Indochina and the Indonesian Archipelago, 1945-1947 / Pierre Asselin and Henk Schulte Nordholt -- The Places, Traces, and Politics of Rape in the Indonesian and the Algerian Wars of Independence / Stef Scagliola and Natalya Vince, in collaboration with Khedidja Adel and Galuh Amba -- "The normal order of things" : Contextualizing "Technical Violence" in the Netherlands-Indonesia War / Azarja Harmanny and Brian McAllister Linn -- "Bloodshed on a rather large scale" : Tactical Conduct and Non-combatant Casualties in Dutch, French, and British Colonial Counterinsurgency / Christiaan Harinck -- Comparing the Afterlives, Political Uses, and Memories of Extreme Violence during the Wars of Decolonization in France, the Netherlands, and Britain / Raphaëlle Branche.…”
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