Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
About the Book Series
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.
On The Borders of State Power: Frontiers in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region
1st Edition
Edited
By Martin Gainsborough
June 13, 2012
On The Borders of State Power explores the changing nature, meaning and significance of international borders over time in the area referred to today as the Greater Mekong Sub-region, incorporating Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and China’s Yunnan province. An international line up...
National Pasts in Europe and East Asia
1st Edition
By Peter W. Preston
May 09, 2012
With the rise of industrial capitalism in Europe and the related imposition of colonial rule in much of East Asia, both Europe and East Asia have intertwined histories that continue to shape their political thinking and political decision making. The contemporary interactions of the two regions – ...
The Cold War and National Assertion in Southeast Asia: Britain, the United States and Burma, 1948–1962
1st Edition
By Matthew Foley
March 29, 2012
This book charts British and American approaches to Burma between the country’s independence from the United Kingdom in 1948 and the military coup that ended civilian government in 1962. It analyses the fundamental drivers of Anglo-American policy-making during this crucial period – assumptions, ...
The International History of East Asia, 1900–1968: Trade, Ideology and the Quest for Order
1st Edition
Edited
By Antony Best
March 29, 2012
This book provides a broad account of the international history of East Asia from 1900 to 1968 - a subject that is essential to any understanding of the modern epoch. Whereas much of the scholarship on this subject has focused purely on the immediate origins and consequences of violent events such ...
The Limits of British Colonial Control in South Asia: Spaces of Disorder in the Indian Ocean Region
1st Edition
Edited
By Ashwini Tambe, Harald Fischer Tiné
February 21, 2012
This book assesses British colonialism in South Asia in a transnational light, with the Indian Ocean region as its ambit, and with a focus on ‘subaltern’ groups and actors. It breaks new ground by combining new strands of research on colonial history. Thinking about colonialism in dynamic terms, ...
The Development of the Japanese Nursing Profession: Adopting and Adapting Western Influences
1st Edition
By Aya Takahashi
December 20, 2011
In the years after 1868, when Japan's long period of self-imposed isolation ended, in nursing, as in every other aspect of life, the Japanese looked to the west. This book tells the story of 'Florence Nightingale-ism' in Japan, showing how Japanese nursing developed from 1868 to the present. It ...
Reforming Public Health in Occupied Japan, 1945-52: Alien Prescriptions?
1st Edition
By Christopher Aldous, Akihito Suzuki
December 12, 2011
Whilst most facets of the Occupation of Japan have attracted much scholarly debate in recent decades, this is not the case with reforms relating to public health. The few studies of this subject largely follow the celebratory account of US-inspired advances, strongly associated with Crawford Sams, ...
Regionalism in Southeast Asia: To foster the political will
1st Edition
By Nicholas Tarling
October 20, 2011
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 written from a national point of view, which underplays the links between neighbouring states and nations and ...
Forgotten Captives in Japanese-Occupied Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Kevin Blackburn, Karl Hack
October 11, 2011
Experiences of captivity in Japanese-occupied Asia varied enormously. Some prisoners of war (POWs) were sent to work in Japan, others to toil on the ‘Death Railway’ between Burma and Thailand. Some camps had death rates below 1 per cent, others of over 20 per cent. While POWs were deployed far and ...
Southeast Asia and the Great Powers
1st Edition
By Nicholas Tarling
October 11, 2011
The success of regionalism in Southeast Asia depends on the attitudes of the states within the region but also on the attitude of those outside it. This book is an erudite and stimulating study on the latter. Placing these states in a long term historical context Tarling brings out the way in which...
Colonial Armies in Southeast Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Tobias Rettig, Karl Hack
September 13, 2011
Colonial armies were the focal points for some of the most dramatic tensions inherent in Chinese, Japanese and Western clashes with Southeast Asia. The international team of scholars take the reader on a compelling exploration from Ming China to the present day, examining their conquests, ...
Religion and Nationalism in India: The Case of the Punjab
1st Edition
By Harnik Deol
September 11, 2011
This timely and significant study explores the reasons behind the rise in Sikh militancy over the 1970s and 1980s. It also evaluates the violent response of the Indian State in fuelling and suppressing the Sikh separatist movement, resulting in a tragic sequence of events which has included the ...