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The regions of Asia and Oceania, with their many diverse peoples, massive size, and vast cultural history, have been the location of some of the most critical conflicts of the modern era. This book explores the most explosive conflicts in the regions surrounding Asia and Oceania.

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Weaving a critique of major power intervention into political history, this book provides a comprehensive overview of Cambodia from 1953 to the present.

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Japan is aging rapidly, and its government has been groping with the implications of this profound social change. In a pioneering study of postwar Japanese social policy, John Creighton Campbell traces the growth from small beginnings to an elaborate and expensive set of pension, health care, employment, and social service programs for older people

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Dr. Thayer, who was American press attache in Tokyo from 1962 to 1965, presents a detailed account of conservative politics in Japan. Although he makes some historical comparisons, Dr. Thayer's main focus is on the contemporary workings of the Liberal Democratic Party, the ruling party in Japan. He identifies the political elements: the men are the

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A gripping, intimately-observed history of Afghanistan from 1986 to the present--by the longest-serving Western journalist in the region--overturns our conventional and simplistic understandings.

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This cultural history examines representations of pleasure work during Japans transformation into a modern nation-state. It traces the figure of the prostitute in the context of Japanese nation- and empire-building immediately before and during the Meiji era.

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This cultural history examines representations of pleasure work during Japans transformation into a modern nation-state. It traces the figure of the prostitute in the context of Japanese nation- and empire-building immediately before and during the Meiji era.

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An exploration of the world of the Imperial Japanese Navy airman in all its aspects. It covers his background, the cultural and social forces that moulded him, his recruitment and training, his daily life and his experience in service. The tactics and flying techniques used are also discussed.

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The Imperial Japanese Navy fielded the largest pre-nuclear submarines in the world, some capable of carrying floatplane bombers and midget submarines, equipped with the best torpedoes available. This book describes the astounding technical advances of Imperial Japanese Navy vessels, and the wartime tactics responsible for their failure.

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The Secretary of Defense for the Kennedy and Johnson administrations provides an account of how and why America became involved in Vietnam and discusses the legacy of decisions made during the 1960s.

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A comprehensive examination of social clubs across South Asia -- .

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The caste-less society that was identified in its Constitution as one of free India's goals has become a society in which the salience of caste membership is greater today than in 1947.

Dettman examines events during the thirty months from August 1997 to January 2000 on the political, economic, and military fronts.

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Two hundred years ago, India was seen as a place with little history and less culture. Today it is revered for a notable prehistory, a magnificent classical age and a cultural tradition unique in both character and continuity. How this change in perception came about is the subject of this book.

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This essential, richly researched book provides the first comprehensive history of India-China interactions in the broader contexts of Asian and world history. Sen fills a striking gap in the study of India and China by tracing their connected histories in a global setting.

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Provides the first comprehensive assessment of India as a political and strategic power since its nuclear testing, its 1999 war with Pakistan, and its breakthrough economic achievements.

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A fresh approach to the 1857 Rebellion to help better understand the complex and multi-faceted roots of jihad as a rhetorical concept.

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Mr. Heimsath presents here an intellectual history of the social reform movement among Hindus in India in the century between Ram Mohun Roy and Gandhi. Treating separately each major province in which reform movements flourished, he shows the many ways in which social reform was effected. Originally published in 1964. The Princeton Legacy Library

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The decision by the British Raj in 1917 to permit Indians into the Indian Army's officer corps was a key turning point in modern South Asian military history. This book analyzes the political, military, and ideological factors in the forgotten hundred-year-long debate culminating in this ruling.

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Analyzing the causes of the social, political, and economic crises that erupted in Indonesia in the late 1990s, the scholars elicit the responses of the elite and civil society, and the prospects for continuing reform.