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Examines how mass motorization reshaped cities in Japan and Britain during the twentieth century, focusing on two leading 'motor cities', Nagoya and Birmingham.

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This work focuses on the Japanese bomber killers of World War II. Responsible for shooting B-29s out of the skies of Japan, these pilots used a range of tactics, including ramming. This book includes first-hand accounts, archival Japanese material, and scale plans of all major fighter variants.

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This compelling book explores Okinawas makeover as a tourist mecca among the physical ruins of the Pacific Wars most devastating land battle. Gerald Figal considers how a place burdened by a history of semi-colonialism, memories of war and occupation, economic hardship, and contentious politics has reshaped itself into a resort destination.

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This book explores both the social history of livestock and veterinary history in South Asia, and integrates both of them seamlessly within its narrative. -- .

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In the mid-1960s, Cambodia's position within South East Asia was highly vulnerable. The Americans were embroiled in war in Vietnam, the Viet Cong were gaining control over Cambodian frontier areas. This book presents a portrait of a country poised between peace and war.

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"An interconnected history of the regions surrounding the Bay of Bengal in the 19th and 20th centuries, weaving together themes of migration, diaspora, ethnicity, religion, culture and the emergence of nationalist politics and state policies"--

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This edited collection examines the fundamental role East Asians played in reshaping the world order during the interwar period. The contributors argue that Japan, China, Korea, and Mongolia sought to redefine the concept of sovereignty to advance their own interests after the Treaty of Versailles was signed.

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This edited collection examines the fundamental role East Asians played in reshaping the world order during the interwar period. The contributors argue that Japan, China, Korea, and Mongolia sought to redefine the concept of sovereignty to advance their own interests after the Treaty of Versailles was signed.

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Japan and the United States became close political allies so quickly after the end of World War II, that it seemed as though the two countries had easily forgotten the war they had fought. This work offers a look at how Japanese postwar society struggled to understand its war loss and the resulting national trauma.

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The 'Confrontation' is Britain's forgotten war. Yet as David Easter shows, it was a major commitment involving over 54000 British servicemen and near-escalation into full-scale war with Indonesia.

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'Britain in India, 1858-1947' examines the last ninety years of British India, from the establishment of Crown rule after the Mutiny to withdrawal and partition in 1947.

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This study reveals the complex body of British thought and opinion that formed its attitude toward India between 1784-1858.

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This work focuses on the experience, tactics, training and weapons of the British soldier from the Fall of Malaya and Singapore until the Reconquest of Burma. It covers jungle warfare training in India and the ensuing action in Burma, tracing the development of tactics and doctrine.

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An exploration of the history, ideology and aesthetics of China's left-wing cinema movement, a quixotic film culture that was as political as commercial, as militant as sensationalist. The author demonstrates that the movement was a product of the era's social, economic and political discourses.

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This social and political history of resettlement and state building in the Sino-Tibetan borderlands examines the aims of Han and Hui Chinese settlers sent to Qinghai province, their impact on the land and the population, and the role of the resettlement in the industrialization of the China.

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Mustafa Ali was the foremost historian of the sixteenth-century Ottoman Empire. Most modern scholars of the Ottoman period have focused on economic and institutional issues, but this study uses Ali and his works as the basis for analyzing the nature of intellectual and social life in a formative period of the Ottoman Empire. Originally published i