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...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...

...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...

...Yosef Djakababa Lockard's Southeast Asia in World History must be welcomed as a fascinating addition to the literature on Southeast Asian Studies as well as World History. At present this book provides the most up to date information about Southeast Asia, and will make a good textbook reader...

...Kenneth McPherson The Indian Ocean in World History . By Milo Kearney . New York : Routlege , 2004 . ix , 188 pp. $70.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 226 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D I E S Two other examples illustrate the value...

... of items written in 2019 and 2020—and it seems likely that COVID-related problems delayed the book's publication until now. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 Imagined Geographies: The Maritime Silk Roads in World History, 100–1800 . By Geoffrey C. Gunn . Hong Kong...

..., this music offers a critique of the Eurocentric discourses of “World-history” and nationalism, by invoking alternative Indian discourses of “Itihāsa” and “samāj” . At the same time, Tagore departs from the contemporary Hindu cultural nationalist revivalist approach of the tradition of North Indian...

...Michal Biran The Mongol Conquests in World History . By Timothy May . London : Reaktion Books-Globalities , 2012 . 319 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013 2013 The study of the Mongol empire has made enormous strides in the past two...

...Melissa Macauley Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 Asia in Western and World History: A Guide for Teaching . Edited by Ainslie T. Embree and Carol Gluck . Armonk, N.Y. : M. E. Sharpe , 1997 . xviii, 998 pp. $79.95 (cloth); $29.95 (paper). BOOK REVIEWS...

...Ruth W. Dunnell Central Asia in World History . By S. A. M. Adshead . New York : St. Martin's Press , 1993 . 291 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 155 deeply embedded in the human psyche, is transformed...

...Warner A. Belanger, III The Silk Road in World History . By Xinru Liu . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2010 . x, 168 pp. $74.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 This volume on the Silk Road by Xinru Liu is a welcome...

... comprehensive and synthetic account of willful (political and bodily) genocide to date. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur . By Ben Kiernan . New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press...

... of high empire in India, to world history through both case studies and broader context for grasping the implications of a changing world, provides valuable analyses for all of us, if not a pattern many could replicate. Perhaps what ought to be noted here is the experience, common to many of us working...

...David Fedman But perhaps the signal contribution of the book lies in its creative fusion of military and world history. At a time when military history is contracting as a discipline, The Gunpowder Age suggests a number of new paths forward. Not only does Andrade significantly expand...

...Jan de Vries Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 Growth Recurring: Economic Change in World History . By E.L. Jones . New York : Oxford University Press , 1988 . xii, 247 pp. $49.95. 116 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES difficult than in the past...

...Edward L. Farmer China in World History . By S. A. M. Adshead . New York : St. Martin's Press , 1988 . x , 422 pp. $37.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 583 risk that the selection of projects will be problematic...

...P.H.C. Japan in World History . By G. B. Sansom . Issued under the auspices of the Japan Institute of Pacific Relations. New York : Institute of Pacific Relations , 1951 . 94 p. $2.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1952 1952 BOOK REVIEWS 427 The U. S. Air...

... colonial enterprises had so overwhelmed the economic, cultural, and political history of the region that the entire period may properly be called the “Vasco da Gama epoch.” 1 For decades, notwithstanding the insights of the Annales school of historiography (from the mid-twentieth century) and the 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...

... Total Empire Met Total War . By Jeremy A. Yellen . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 2019 . xi, 288 pp. ISBN: 9781501735547 (cloth). Japan's Occupation of Java in the Second World War: A Transnational History . By Ethan Mark . London : Bloomsbury , 2018 . xii, 386 pp. ISBN...