Book Series
Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
New & Published Titles:
Changing Visions of East Asia, 1943-93
Transformations and Continuities
Ralph Smith was a highly respected historian who, at the time of his death in December 2000, had nearly completed a manuscript chronicling changes in…
read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-38140-6 (Routledge)
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Regionalism in Southeast Asia
To foster the political will
Regionalism in Southeast Asia provides the reader with an historical analysis of Southeast Asia from the distinct perspective of regionalism. Southeast Asian history is usually…
read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-37962-5 (Routledge)
A Vietnamese Royal Exile in Japan
Prince Cuong De (1882-1951)
Prince Cuong De, viewed by the French as a pretender to the Vietnamese throne, was an important and interesting figure in the history of Vietnam’s…
read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-29716-5 (Routledge)
US-China Cold War Collaboration
1971-1989
After more than four decades the Cold War ended with the sudden collapse of the Soviet Union. Almost simultaneously China emerged as the new potential…
read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-35819-4 (Routledge)
A Colonial Economy in Crisis
Burma's Rice Cultivators and the World Depression of the 1930s
The book challenges the orthodox argument that rural populations which abandoned self-sufficiency to become single commodity producers, and were supposedly very vulnerable to the commodity… read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-30580-8 (Routledge)
The British Empire and Tibet 1900-1922
In August 1904 Sir Francis Younghusband's invasion force reached the forbidden city of Lhasa. The British invasion of Tibet in 1903 acted as a catalyst… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-34682-5 (Routledge)
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Nationalism in Southeast Asia
If the People Are with Us
Nationalism in Southeast Asia seeks a definition of nationalism through examining its role in the history of southeast Asia, a region rarely included in general… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-33476-1 (Routledge)
The Rise and Decline of Thai Absolutism
This book examines the development of Thailand from the integration of Siam into the European world economy at the beginning of the nineteenth century, up… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-29725-7 (Routledge)
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Women's Suffrage in Asia
Gender, Nationalism and Democracy
Including chapters on Indonesia, India, Thailand, China, the Philippines, Japan, Malaysia, Korea, Vietnam and international suffrage connections, Women's Suffrage in Asia engages in debates on… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-33251-4 (Routledge)
The Internment of Western Civilians under the Japanese 1941-1945
A patchwork of internment
Bernice Archer's comparative study of the experiences of the Western civilians interned by the Japanese in mixed family camps and sexually segregated camps in the… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-7146-5592-5 (Routledge)
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Series Details:
During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Asia has undergone immense and far reaching changes: war, revolution, occupation, industrialization. This series includes in-depth research on aspects of economic, political and social history of individual countries as well as more broad-reaching analyses of regional issues.
Forthcoming Titles:
Journalism and Politics in Indonesia: A Critical Biography of Mochtar Lubis (1922-2004) as Editor and Author
By David T. Hill
To be published November 27th 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
Atrocity and American Military Justice in Southeast Asia: Trial by Army
By Louise Barnett
To be published January 6th 2010
Southeast Asia and the Great Powers
By Nicholas Tarling
To be published January 15th 2010
The Japanese Occupation of Borneo, 1941-45
By Ooi Keat Gin
To be published June 15th 2010
The Philosophy of Japanese Wartime Resistance
Edited by David Williams
To be published July 17th 2010
National Pasts in Europe and East Asia
By Peter W. Preston
To be published July 31st 2010
Post-War Repatriation to Defeated Japan
By BEATRICE TREFALT
To be published August 30th 2010