...Richard M. Eaton For God or Empire: Sayyid Fadl and the Indian Ocean World . By Wilson Chacko Jacob . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2019 . xxi, 276 pp. ISBN: 9781503609631 (paper). Abraham's Luggage: A Social Life of Things in the Medieval Indian Ocean World...

...Zachary A. Scarlett Great State: China and the World . By Timothy Brook . New York : Harper-Collins , 2020 . 442 pp. ISBN: 9780062950987 (cloth). China's Revolutions in the Modern World: A Brief Interpretive History . By Rebecca E. Karl . New York : Verso , 2020 . 230 pp...

...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...

...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...

...Joseph P. Selden Japan in the world crisis . By C. J. Stranks . London : The Sheldon Press , 1941 . vii, 70 p. 40¢. Japan: A world problem . By H. J. Timperley . New York : The John Day Company , 1942 . lx, 150 p. $ 1.75. 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Eric C. Thompson Social Science and Knowledge in a Globalising World . Edited by Zawawi Ibrahim . Kajang : Persatuan Sains Sosial Malaysia (Malaysian Social Science Association) and Petaling Jaya: Strategic Information and Research Development Centre , 2012 . xxxii, 499 pp. $22.40 (paper...

... this effort, Dharmapala became a pilgrim of a kind, living much of his adult life away from Sri Lanka, based mostly in Calcutta and London. In 1889, 1896, 1902, and 1913, and between 1925 and 1926, Dharmapala traveled around the world looking for supporters and funds and establishing networks (p. 6). He...

...Steve Folmar Death, Beauty, Struggle: Untouchable Women Create the World . By Margaret Trawick . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2017 . xviii, 284 pp. ISBN: 9780812249057 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018  2018 In the conclusion...

...Robert L. Brown The Hindu Tantric World: An Overview . By André Padoux . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2017 . xvii, 219 pp. ISBN: 9780226423937 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018  2018 Few notions...

..., Japanese forestry officials initially strove to regenerate Korea's woodlands through scientific management, by the 1930s these conservation efforts gave way to unrestrained exploitation in the name of mobilization for total war. On a global scale, the period between the First and Second World Wars...

...-Mongol alliance conquered China, the Han adopted many of their customs, to the detriment of their rulers’ homelands. A World Trimmed with Fur is an excellent historical cautionary account of the staggering impact of local and international market-driven human environmental destruction that all should...

..., situates Confucian Image Politics firmly in the world of male literati passions and concerns, the world of all three books reviewed here. Reading the three books together lets us follow important intellectual currents in the Ming and early Qing literati worlds. Discussing Li Mengyang (1473–1530...

... on the continent during the war, particularly the analyses of the various communist and nationalist groups in China and Korea by Japanese agents, provides a wealth of new information on which future scholars will certainly build. Moreover, Koshiro's broadening of our field of reference for the Second World War...