Historia regionalna, historia kraju

In the Japanese labor movement of the early twentieth century, no one captured the public imagination as vividly as Osugi Sakae (1885-1923): rebel, anarchist, and martyr. Flamboyant in life, dramatic …

In 1949 a powerful political-military movement, led by the Chinese Communist party, gained control of war-ravaged China, inheriting a disorganized administration and a society eroded by decades of re …

Germany, like many countries, has witnessed the rise of extremist far-right groups and parties in recent years, and no more so than in the eastern regions. Why have those parts of Germany that used t …

The exciting history of the occupation of the Amazon is revealed. More than 200 years of struggle, determination and courage. Religious missions and military forts played a predominant role. The expu …

The story of Musahib Ud-Din Khan is not a run of the mill tale of rags to riches. It is rather an inspirational narrative about the potential of education as a vehicle for upward mobility and for rea …

Vietnamese history prior to the tenth century has often been treated as a branch of Chinese history, but the Vietnamese side of the story can no longer be ignored. In this volume Keith Taylor draws o …

The March 11, 2011, earthquake and subsequent tsunami that ravaged Japan lasted a mere six minutes. But the fallout—the aftershocks, the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the country-wide devastation—from …

Contending that Japan’s industrial and imperial revolutions were also geographical revolutions, Kären Wigen’s interdisciplinary study analyzes the changing spatial order of the countryside in early m …

When Fatima comes across a few pages out of her late mother’s diary, she finds her way to Zosia Kasanova, an old woman living in Karachi. Together, they live through her experiences as a victim of th …

David Rudner’s richly detailed ethnographic and historical analysis of a South Indian merchant-banking caste provides the first comprehensive analysis of the interdependence among Indian business pra …