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Modern Asian Studies is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal in the field of Asian studies, published by Cambridge University Press.The journal was established in 1967 [1] by the Syndics of the University of Cambridge and the Committee of Directors at the Centre of South Asian Studies (CSAS), a joint initiative among SOAS University of London, University of Cambridge, University of Hull ...
This volume introduces the geographical setting of Central Asia and follows its history from the palaeolithic era to the rise of the Mongol Empire in the thirteenth century. The series' second volume, The Cambridge History of Inner Asia: The Chinggisid Age, was published in 2009. Similar to the previous volume, a large group of international ...
A History of East Asian Civilization: Volume One : East Asia the Great Tradition and A History of East Asian Civilization: Volume Two : East Asia the Modern transformation (1966) Online free to borrow; Metcalf, Barbara Daly; Metcalf, Thomas R. (2006). A Concise History of Modern India. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-86362-9.
Early Modern Japan in Asia and the World, c.1580–1877 (edited by David L. Howell). [3] This volume covers the Edo period. The Modern Japanese Nation and Empire, c.1868 to the Twenty-First Century (edited by Laura Hein). [4] This volume covers events from the Meiji Restoration to the 21st century. [2]
The historian Rana Mitter called The Penguin History of Modern China "a powerful revisionist account" of China, stating that Westerners must grasp its history to realise China's current and future impact on the world. He said it was "the first major history that looks at the country with the eyes of the 21st century rather than the 20th". [1]
The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia is a 2-volume history book published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) covering the history of Southeast Asia. It was edited by Nicholas Tarling . Contents
By the time of the Roman Empire, the Silk Road was firmly established. Eurasia around 200 AD. The history of Eurasia is the collective history of a continental area with several distinct peripheral coastal regions: Southwest Asia, South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Western Europe, linked by the interior mass of the Eurasian steppe of Central Asia and Eastern Europe.
Tim Chamberlain writes for the London School of Economics' blog, "Focusing predominantly on the political and economic aspects of China’s history and thereby contextualising its present place in the globalised community of nations, this book forms an excellent introduction to the history of modern China for the general reader and student alike."