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Arab Historians of the Crusades (Routledge Revivals)
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…
read moreOctober 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-56793-0 (Routledge)
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Provincial Life and the Military in Imperial Japan
The Phantom Samurai
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…
read moreOctober 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-49751-0 (Routledge)
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Ethnic Politics in Burma
States of Conflict
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…
read moreOctober 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-57269-9 (Routledge)

Democracy in Occupied Japan
The U.S. Occupation and Japanese Politics and Society
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…
read moreOctober 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-56059-7 (Routledge)
From Orientalism to Postcolonialism
Asia, Europe and the Lineages of Difference
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…
read moreSeptember 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-54740-6 (Routledge)
Radical Politics in Colonial Punjab
Governance and Sedition
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…
read moreSeptember 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-45688-3 (Routledge)

Xinjiang
China's Muslim Far Northwest
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… read moreAugust 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54631-7 (Routledge)
Russian Views of Japan, 1792-1913
An Anthology of Travel Writing
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… read moreAugust 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54617-1 (Routledge)
Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century
Saints, Books and Empires in the Muslim Deccan
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…
read moreAugust 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54988-2 (Routledge)
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Technology and the Culture of Progress in Meiji Japan
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…
read moreJuly 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-56061-0 (Routledge)
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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
