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Slavery in South Asia
Slavery in South Asia during the early modern and colonial periods is a broad and diverse category, including practices ranging from agricultural...
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Greater Central Asia: A Cultural Mosaic
It is difficult to obtain a well-rounded picture of Greater Central Asia due to its vast territory, lengthy history, multiple ethnicities, and...
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Migration of Populations Within Greater Central Asia
Greater Central Asia includes all of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan—commonly referred to as “the Stans”—and the...
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Greater Central Asia and the New Silk Road
My interest in “Greater Central Asia” began with two texts in my elementary school textbook, “Ban Chao Discards his Pen to Join the Army,” and “Be a...
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The First Sino-Japanese War and East Asia
This chapter covers the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895, a “watershed in world history,” according to the author. It uses maps of the Korean...
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Doing It Yourself in Central Asia: Uzbeks Build Adobe Houses
The history of construction practices and daily life in Central Asia challenges the narrative of the Soviet Union as a centralized, monolithic...
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‘Convicts’ as the Indentured Labour: Contribution of Indians to the Development in Southeast Asia
During the colonial period, Indian criminals primarily migrated to Southeast Asia to work on sugar, tea, coffee, cocoa, rice, and rubber plantations....
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Introduction: Locating Eastern Asia and the League in Global International Relations
Out of a total of 54 members of the League of Nations at its zenith, only China, Japan and Siam (Thailand) were located in Eastern Asia, an area that...
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Revolting Against Western Capitalist Patriarchy: Questioning Modernity During the Asia-Pacific War
This chapter is devoted to an examination of Takamure’s reflections on the Asia-Pacific War (1931–1945). For her, the Second World War in Asia and...
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The Asia and Africa Theories
The Europeans who came to America after 1492, came in large part of their own volition. While many left Europe as refugees because of religious...
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Travel Writings on Asia Curiosity, Identities, and Knowledge Across the East, c. 1200 to the Present
This open access book provides an analysis of human actors and their capacity to explore and conceptualise their own agency by being curious,...
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The Prospects for Public History in East Asia: History Textbooks, Museums, Cinema and TV
This chapter argues that public history is an effective and crucial tool to reconcile conflicts about history. Public History transmits the results...
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The Establishment of Islam in Central Asia: Geo-Cultural Patterns and Geographical Realities
When we talk about Islam in Central Asia, in fact we are talking about it spreading mostly among different Turkic-speaking peoples. The Turks first...
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The Afterlife of the Constitution of the Irish Free State: Constitutional Echoes in South Asia
This chapter looks at the influence of the Irish Free State Constitution outside the borders of the State. It examines the way in which...
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The “Look East Policy” of Bangladesh: An Opportunity for Building Complementary and Shared Development for Eastern South Asia
What explains the linkage between Bangladesh’s “Look East Policy” and the country’s balancing foreign policy adjustments with two emerging...
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Liberal Internationalism Reconsidered: Inter-Imperialism, Liberalism, and the League of Nations in Asia and the Pacific
The League of Nations has long been uncritically characterised as a ‘liberal internationalist’ institution. This chapter argues that a more rigorous...
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Imperial Kingdoms in Southeast Asia: The Case of Bagan (Pagan)
This contribution uses the city and kingdom of Bagan (Myanmar) as a case study to highlight the characteristics of empires—more aptly referred to as...
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The Origins of the Cold War in East Asia: The Emergence of Communist China, Japan and the Korean War
This chapter analyses the develo** Cold War as a global phenomenon that occurred in Asia and Europe simultaneously. It begins with a discussion of...
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World War I in East Asia: Transnational Aspects of the Qingdao Campaign (August 23–November 7, 1914)
On September 2, 1914, Japanese forces together with a small Indo-British contingent, started the siege of Qingdao, a German-held territory on the...
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War and Trade in Maritime East Asia
This book is divided into two parts. One is the state of trade in East Asia before and after the collapse of the tributary system to the Ming...
