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Arab Historians of the Crusades (Routledge Revivals)

By Francesco Gabrieli

The recapture of Jerusalem, the siege of acre, the fall of Tripoli, the effect in Baghdad of events in Syria; these and other happenings were…

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October 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-56793-0 (Routledge)

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Provincial Life and the Military in Imperial Japan

The Phantom Samurai

By Stewart Lone

In contrast to the enduring stereotype of a ‘nation of samurai’, this book uses provincial newspapers and local records to hear the voices of ordinary…

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October 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-49751-0 (Routledge)

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Ethnic Politics in Burma

States of Conflict

By Ashley South

This book examines the ideas which have structured half a century of civil war in Burma, and the roles which political elites and foreign networks…

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October 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-57269-9 (Routledge)

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Democracy in Occupied Japan

The U.S. Occupation and Japanese Politics and Society

Edited by Mark E. Caprio, Yoneyuki Sugita

With expert contributions from both the US and Japan, this book examines the legacies of the US Occupation on Japanese politics and society, and discusses…

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October 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-56059-7 (Routledge)

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From Orientalism to Postcolonialism

Asia, Europe and the Lineages of Difference

Edited by Sucheta Mazumdar, Vasant Kaiwar, Thierry Labica

This book uses a historical and theoretical focus to examine the key of issues of the Enlightenment, Orientalism, concepts of identity and difference, and the…

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September 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-54740-6 (Routledge)

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Radical Politics in Colonial Punjab

Governance and Sedition

By Shalini Sharma

The actions of the radical left in Punjab in pre-Independence India during the 1920s and 30s have often been viewed as foreign and quintessentially un-Indian…

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September 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-45688-3 (Routledge)

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Xinjiang

China's Muslim Far Northwest

By Michael Dillon

Xinjiang, the nominally autonomous region in China's far northwest, is of increasing international strategic and economic importance. With a population which is mainly non-Chinese…

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August 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54631-7 (Routledge)

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Russian Views of Japan, 1792-1913

An Anthology of Travel Writing

By David N. Wells

Before Japan was 'opened up' in the 1850s, contact with Russia as well as other western maritime nations was extremely limited. Yet from the early…

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August 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54617-1 (Routledge)

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Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century

Saints, Books and Empires in the Muslim Deccan

By Nile Green

Sufism is often regarded as standing mystically aloof from its wider cultural settings. By turning this perspective on its head, Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth

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August 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54988-2 (Routledge)

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Technology and the Culture of Progress in Meiji Japan

By David G. Wittner

In this book David Wittner situates Japan’s Meiji Era experience of technology transfer and industrial modernization within the realm of culture, politics, and symbolism, examining…

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July 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-56061-0 (Routledge)

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Forthcoming Titles:

Women’s History and Local Community in Postwar Japan
By Curtis Anderson Gayle
To be published December 8th 2009

Perversion and Modern Japan: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Culture
Edited by Nina Cornyetz, J. Keith Vincent
To be published December 9th 2009

State Violence and Punishment in India
By Taylor C. Sherman
To be published December 11th 2009

The Cold War and National Assertion in Southeast Asia: Britain, the United States and Burma, 1948–1962
By Matthew Foley
To be published December 14th 2009

The International History of East Asia, 1900–1968: Trade, Ideology and the Quest for Order
Edited by Antony Best
To be published December 18th 2009

M. N. Roy: Marxism and Colonial Cosmopolitanism
By Kris Manjapra
To be published December 31st 2009

Mapping Modernity in Shanghai: Space, Gender, and Visual Culture in the Sojourners' City, 1853-98
By Samuel Y. Liang
To be published March 15th 2010

A History of India
By Hermann Kulke, Dietmar Rothermund
To be published March 26th 2010

Princely India Re-imagined: A Historical Anthropology of Mysore
By Aya Ikegame
To be published April 1st 2010

The Body Broken: Medieval Europe 1300–1520
By Charles F. Briggs
To be published May 1st 2010

Gandhi's Spinning Wheel and the Making of India
By Rebecca Brown
To be published June 1st 2010

History and Citizenship Education in Post-Mao China: Politics, Policy, Praxis
By Alisa Jones
To be published June 15th 2010

The Japanese Occupation of Borneo, 1941-45
By Ooi Keat Gin
To be published June 15th 2010

Truth on Trial in Thailand: Defamation, Treason, and Lèse-Majesté
By David Streckfuss
To be published June 15th 2010

Bureaucracy, Community and Influence in India: Society and the State, 1930s - 1960s
By William Gould
To be published June 30th 2010

Modern South Asia: A Sourcebook and Reader
Edited by Sugata Bose, Ayesha Jalal
To be published July 1st 2010

Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy
By Sugata Bose, Ayesha Jalal
To be published July 1st 2010

The Making of Western Indology: Henry Thomas Colebrooke and the East India Company
By Ludo Rocher, Rosane Rocher
To be published July 1st 2010

Gandhi
By Benjamin Zachariah
To be published July 15th 2010

The Philosophy of Japanese Wartime Resistance
Edited by David Williams
To be published July 17th 2010

Jinnah
By Hayat Sikander
To be published August 14th 2010

Pre-Modern States on China's North-Eastern Frontier: The Liao, 916-1125, and the Koryo, 918-1392
By Remco Breuker
To be published August 30th 2010

Encyclopedia of Chinese History
Edited by Michael Dillon
To be published October 15th 2010