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... Shirer,Harsch, Taylor and Tolischus have won honors in this war for being historians as well as newspapermen. University of British Columbia F. H. SOWARD Vancouver, Canada Japan in the world crisis. BY C. J. STRANKS. London: The Sheldon Press, 1941. vii, 70 p. 40jf. Japan: A world problem. BY H. J...

...Edwin J. Van Kley Rethinking World History: Essays on Europe, Islam, and World History . Marshall G. S. Hodgson . Edited, with an introduction and conclusion, by Edmund Burke III. Studies in Comparative World History. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1993 . xxv, 328 pp. $49.95...

...Yucong Hao China in the World: Culture, Politics, and World Vision . By Ban Wang . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2022 . 232 pp. ISBN: 9781478010845 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 China in the World: Culture, Politics, and World Vision is an inspiring...

...Melford E. Spiro World Conqueror and World Renouncer: A Study of Buddhism and Polity in Thailand against a Historical Background . By S. J. Tambiah . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1976 . viii, 557 pp. Bibliography, Index. $37.50 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Arthur Stein India and World Politics: Krishna Menon's View of the World . By Michael Brecher . New York : Frederick A. Praeger , 1968 . xii, 390 pp. Appendix, Index, $10.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 BOOK REVIEWS 181 amination of the New Yor...

...William R. Braisted Coral Sea, Midway and submarine actions, May 1942–August 1942 . Vol. IV of History of United States naval operations in World War II . By Samuel Eliot Morison . Boston : Little, Brown & Company , 1949 . xxiii, 307 p. $6.00. United States Army in World War...

...Mary Pangle Mazur The Making of a Sino-Marxist World View: Perceptions and Interpretations of World History in the People's Republic of China . By Dorothea A. L. Martin . Armonk, N.Y. : M. E. Sharpe, Inc. , 1990 . xii , 138 pp. $42.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...David Washbrook Abstract The challenge of Immanuel Wallerstein—to reconceive the history of South Asia since 1750 as part of the development of a capitalist world system—has yet to elicit an adequate response from South Asia's historians. While a few social scientists interested in the past have...

...Brian J. L. Berry Urbanism, Colonialism, and the World-Economy. Cultural and Spatial Foundations of the World Urban System . By Anthony D. King . London and New York : Routledge , 1990 . xii, 185 pp. $49.95 Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 BOOK...

...James L. Huffman To Stand with the Nations of the World: Japan's Meiji Restoration in World History . By Mark Ravina . New York : Oxford University Press , 2017 . xiv, 312 pp. ISBN: 9780195327717 (cloth, also available as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Grace H. Green Asia in the Modern World . Edited by Helen G. Matthew . New York : The New American Library , 1963 . (A Mentor Book) viii, 288 . Bibliography, Index. $0.75 West and Non-West; New Perspectives. An Anthology . Edited by Vera Micheles Dean and Harry D. Harootunian...

...Kingsley Davis The Crisis in World Population . By J. O. Hertzler . Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press , 1956 . xiii, 279 . Index. $5.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1957 1957 BOOK REVIEWS 599 income, unless one can demonstrate that population...

.... C. : Office of the Chief of Military History, Department of the Army , 1956 . Issued by the Superintendent of Documents, United States Government Printing Office, viii, 328 . Maps, 310 Photographs. $2.50 (paper). A World on the Move . A History of Colonialism and Nationalism in Asia...

...Susanne Hoeber Rudolph Jawaharlal Nehru's World View x . By Willard Range . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 1961 . lx , 139 . Index. $3.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1963 1963 BOOK REVIEWS 233 "seditious" writing has been reintroduced in India. India...

...James V. Martin, Jr Abstract World War II brought a degree of complexity and intensity to Thai-American relations that contrasted sharply with their quiet uneventfulness in the era preceding it. Before the war, Thai relations with the United States had been friendly, but not close since Thailand...

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...John Ashmead This Scheming World . By Saikaku Ihara . Translated by Masanori Takatsuka and David C. Stubbs . Rutland, Vermont : Charles E. Tuttle, Co. , 1965 . 128 . $3.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 BOOK REVIEWS 769 fields of Franco-Japanese...