Available also in pdf – Download Pdf Pierre Fuller, Modern Erasures: Revolution, the Civilizing Mission, and the Shaping of China’s Past, New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 362 pp. (ISBN9781009026512) Modern Erasures represents the culmination of the extensive research of Pierre Fuller, a prominent scholar whose primary focus has concerned Chinese political cultures, […]
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A County in Manchukuo
Available also in pdf – Download Pdf Filippo Dornetti, Integrazione politica e società nella Manciuria coloniale: L’Associazione della Concordia nella Contea del Fushun, Milano: Franco Angeli, 2021, 130 pp. (ISBN 978-8-83-514620-9). Manchukuo was the puppet state created in the early 1930s by the Japanese in Manchuria. The head of the state was Puyi, the […]
The politics of famine and relief in india, ca. 1880-1950: an integrated approach
Available also in pdf – Download Pdf Joanna Simonow, Ending Famine in India: A Transnational History of Food Aid and Development, ca. 1890-1950, Leiden: Leiden University Press 2023, 286 pp. (ISBN 9789087284046). According to the World Food Programme (WFP), nearly up to 783 million people do not have enough to eat and 47 million […]
On Balancing Histories Large and Small: Modern India and K.M. Panikkar
Available also in pdf – Download Pdf Mauro Elli and Rita Paolini, Indian National Identity and Foreign Policy: Re-Evaluating the Career of K.M. Panikkar (1894-1963), Cham: Palgrave Macmilllan, 2023, 270pp. (ISBN 978-3-031-36242-2). Can an individual life speak to larger historical developments? A cursory glance at the bookcase in my office that is devoted to […]
“Rivalry and Reconciliation: Charting the Middle East’s Power Dynamics between Iran and Saudi Arabia”
Available also in pdf – Download Pdf Ibrahim Fraihat, Iran and Saudi Arabia: Taming a Chaotic Conflict, Edinburgh University Press, 2020, 248 pp. (ISBN 978-1474466189). Simon Mabon, The Struggle for Supremacy in the Middle East: Saudi Arabia and Iran, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 268 pp. (ISBN 978-1108473361). In 2023, an intriguing development occurred […]
Seeking security and trade in Asia? Obstacles and opportunities for Australia
Available also in pdf – Download Pdf Sam Roggeveen, The Echidna Strategy, Australia’s Search for Power and Peace, Collingwood: La Trobe University Press in conjunction with Black Inc., 2023, 1+233pages (ISBN: 978174823279 ebook). Andrew Charlton, Australia’s Pivot to India, Collingwood: Black Inc., 2023, 1+311pages (ISBN: 9781743823316 ebook). Roggeveen’s The Echidna Strategy and Charlton’s Pivot […]
