Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects books

The value of a deep, mistruth-aware analysis of history is crucial for understanding how to protect data of all...  Read More >>

South Korea 1957. Sukey, a promising graduate, falls in love with Kwon, who confesses that he has been a North Korean...  Read More >>

Drawing on a rich array of textual and visual primary sources, including medicine, satires, play scripts, dictionaries,...  Read More >>

A rare account by a foreigner working in Japan in the 20th century; a unique insight into this important period...  Read More >>

World Heritage and Urban Politics in Melaka analyses how the World Heritage 'label' is being used by different actors...  Read More >>

Through a series of interrelated case studies that span the entire continent, this work demonstrates how the everyday...  Read More >>

This book explores the contemporary proliferation of roads in South Asia and the Tibet-Himalaya region, showing...  Read More >>

This volume focuses on a number of research questions, drawn from social movement scholarship: How does nonviolent...  Read More >>

Isabella Bird’s best-selling book on Japan is republished here, but with a difference: for the first time, it is...  Read More >>

This book examines ephemeral exhibition spaces from 1750-1918, focusing on domestic interiors and public exhibitions...  Read More >>

Development Zones in Asian Borderlands maps the nexus between global capital flows, national economic policies,...  Read More >>

Drawing on rich empirical data from ethnography and digital ethnography, Contesting Chineseness: Nationality, Class,...  Read More >>

John Pilcher’s appointment as HM Ambassador to Japan in 1967, three years after the Tokyo Olympics, was both judicious...  Read More >>

This incisive volume brings together postcolonial studies, visual culture and cultural memory studies to explain...  Read More >>

In more than 500 photographs, many published here for the first time, the volume records Vietnam’s capture and occupation...  Read More >>

Authors from 15 European countries present analyses from a range of perspectives coalescing around core concerns:...  Read More >>

Bird's visit to Japan is placed in the context of her worldwide life of travel and introduces the woman herself....  Read More >>

This book explores one of the untold stories of the American military occupation of Japan, from 1945 to 1952, that...  Read More >>

This book offers a multifaceted investigation of the dynamic interrelations between visual arts and representation...  Read More >>

Traditional Javanese law of the pre- and early-colonial period does not draw upon the contents of recognized texts,...  Read More >>

An accomplished linguist and writer, A.B. Mitford was the outstanding chronicler of the Meiji Restoration, complementing...  Read More >>

For the first time, this book lays a solid foundation for the understanding of mail armour and its context through...  Read More >>

The book casts new light on the relation between religion and modernity in Southeast Asia and beyond.  Read More >>

Urban Life and Intellectual Crisis in Middle-Period China, 800-1100 reveals the central place of urban life in the...  Read More >>

This book is an ethnographic analysis of the familial life worlds of fans of a movie star named Rajinikanth as well...  Read More >>