This book deals with a phenomenon that has for centuries now cast its dark shadow over the history and politics of that highly sensitive and troubled region: The Persian Gulf. This phenomenon is the uninterrupted "interest" displayed in this region by a whole series of colonialist and imperialist powers. This "interest" has manifested itself in open as well as covert interference, outright inva…
The reference annual, India-2002, contains information on diverse aspects of the country-its geography and demographic features, polity, economy, society and culture. The information is gathered from Central Government Ministries/ states/ union territories and other organizations. As a work of reference, the annual is particularly useful to scholars, authors, students, officials, journalists, a…
Following its liberation from Japanese colonialism, at the end of WWII, Korea was divided into two separate nations. Because the Korean nation enjoyed a long dynastic history, its postwar partition was particularly traumatic. The ensuing Cold War years spawned the Korean War and subsequent decades of strained inter-Korean relations and tensions in the region surrounding the peninsula. This volu…
Contents: 1. The way we are 2. Constitution and administration 3. The legal system 4. Implementation of the Sino-British Joint declaration 5. The economy 6. Financial and monetary affairs etc.
In a rare combination of comprehensive coverage and sustained critical focus, this book examines Japanese history in its entirety to identify the factors underlying the nation's progression to superpower status. Japan's achievement is explained not merely in economic terms, but at a more fundamental level, as a product of historical patterns of response to circumstance. Japan is shown to be a n…
This newly revised volume drawn from Professor Hane’s classic text, Japan: A Historical Survey, presents a rich account of early Japanese history for students. Important elements of early Japanese history persist in present-day Japan more tenaciously than is sometimes realized. Hane traces the key developments of Japanese history in the premodern period, including the establishment of the imp…
Japan: From Prehistory to Modern Times traces the principal threads of Japan's political and cultural life from early times through the mid-twentieth century. In an informative and engaging narrative, the author presents a carefully balanced and authoritative picture of Japan's transformation from a secluded, little known and backward country, with a fundamentally "Eastern" culture, to one of t…
More than any other historical source, stone inscription provide firsthand information on the public activities of local government and elites in imperial China. In this first English language collection, the author presents a selection of stone inscriptions dating from the Sung dynasty along with translations and analyses of stone texts found in the Fukien province. Contents: 1. Stone record…
The contents of this book: 1. Encounters, 1860s to 1940s 2. Friend to Foe? New Zealand and Japan, 1900-1937 3. New Zealand, Japan, and the Twenty-year Last Contest of Empire, 1931-1951 4. New Zealand Perceptions of Japan, 1945-1965, etc.
Bushido quite literally means "the way of the warrior", and this is the general term for any one of a number of different codes adopted by Japan's warrior elite the samurai from the Middle Ages to the modern period. The golden age of samurai and bushido was already long gone by the time Inazo Nitobe penned his work "Bushido: The Soul of Japan," but its values remained. Nitobe evoked the eight …