Regional studies books

Catholic and Protestant missionaries followed their own, competing agendas rather than those of the colonial state....  Read More >>

This book explores how medicines in China’s health care system are selected, procured and priced, together with...  Read More >>

Aquatopia documents Harmattan Theater’s ecological interventions and traces its engagements with water-bound landscapes,...  Read More >>

This book investigates the concept of colonial globalization to show how knowledge, information, technology, capital,...  Read More >>

The book explores the relationship between the shrinking process and architecture and urban design practices. Starting...  Read More >>

This book examines the controversial 103rd Constitutional Amendment to the Indian Constitution that introduced an...  Read More >>

This book offers a comprehensive and comparative analysis of the history of passports, border surveillance, border...  Read More >>

This interdisciplinary book offers a new analysis of the concepts, spaces and practices of activism that emerge...  Read More >>

This book engages with Christian church traditions and disability issues in Africa, focusing on Zimbabwe in particular....  Read More >>

This book will appeal to researchers and students alike studying Jewish communities in Poland and Jewish-Polish...  Read More >>

This book studies the internal framework of the Indo-Pacific region and examines the strategic issues faced by the...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Northeast India is a trans-disciplinary and comprehensive compendium of a vital yet under-researched...  Read More >>

The Role of Crises in Shaping Financial Systems underscores the role of crises as turning points for the financial...  Read More >>

This book investigates contemporary human security issues in East Africa, setting forth policy recommendations and...  Read More >>

Through a series of investigative studies, this book critically discusses and compares different cases, innovations...  Read More >>

Poon analyzes the ways in which British colonists and Chinese leaders, backed by the rhetoric of public health and...  Read More >>

This book explores a range of key issues connected to China’s relations with countries in the Middle East and South...  Read More >>

As the second volume of a two-volume set that studies the ancient Chinese academy from a socio-cultural perspective,...  Read More >>

Using rich ethnographic data and first-hand experience, Ball presents a detailed account of Australia’s attempts...  Read More >>

As the first volume of a two-volume set that studies the ancient Chinese academy from a socio-cultural perspective,...  Read More >>

This book advances the study of the right to nationality, the prevention of statelessness and the protection of...  Read More >>

The volume introduces a new analysis of interconnected labour and economic history of colonial India and Scandinavia....  Read More >>

Written by Japan-based scholars, the chapters in this book take a critical approach to understanding the impact...  Read More >>

This is the first in-depth and analytical biography of an Asian woman scientist — Edavaleth Kakkat Janaki Ammal...  Read More >>

This book challenges assumptions that poor post-colonial economic performance is always a direct product of colonialism...  Read More >>