http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/collections/newbooks/MU Libraries New Books List for History - Asia. Updated every Wednesday.en-usCopyright 2007 University of Missouri Libraries. Book Covers provided by Amazon.com. All Rights Reserved.Karen D. Darling, darlingk@missouri.eduMathew Stephen, stephenma@missouri.edu11/18/2009 9:00:22 AM10080The RSS feeds for the new books list is updated every Wednesday and contains a list of books added to the Ellis Library collection for the last six weeks. The titles are grouped by call number classification, and are listed by week and alphabetically by title. <p><p>Books for the most recent weeks are currently on the New Books Shelves inside the north entrance of Ellis Library. They can be checked out.<p></p>Copyright 2009 University of Missouri Libraries. Book covers and descriptions provided by Amazon.com. All Rights Reserved.11/18/2009<td><br /><p>Call #: <a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7077524>DS156.L8 I58 2005</a></p></td></tr></table>http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b707752411/18/2009<table><tr><td width='130' style='padding:7px 0px 7px 0px'; valign='top'><a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7163318><img src='http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0465015808.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg' style='border-style: none'/></a><p><center><a href=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0465015808>View title at<br>Amazon.com</a></center>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p></td><td></h2> <div class="content"> <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">Review</h3> <div class="productDescriptionWrapper"> <DIV><B><I>Library Journal</I></B><BR>&ldquo;Without sacrificing substance for brevity, Keay manages to illustrate China&rsquo;s history very much as a narrative... Readers already interested in, or wishing newly to embark upon, Chinese history will adore this book. Highly recommended.&rdquo;</DIV> <div class="emptyClear"> <br /><p>Call #: <a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7163318>DS735 .K43 2009</a></p></td></tr></table>http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b716331811/11/2009<table><tr><td width='130' style='padding:7px 0px 7px 0px'; valign='top'><a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7163353><img src='http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0521768713.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg' style='border-style: none'/></a><p><center><a href=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521768713>View title at<br>Amazon.com</a></center>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p></td><td></h2> <div class="content"> <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">Product Description</h3> <div class="productDescriptionWrapper"> Raj Chandavarkar was one of the finest Indian historians of the twentieth century. He died sadly young in 2006, leaving behind a very substantial collection of unpublished lectures, papers and articles. These have now been assembled and edited by Jennifer Davis, Gordon Johnson and David Washbrook, and their appearance will be widely welcomed by large numbers of scholars of Indian history, politics and society. The essays centre around three major themes: the city of Bombay, Indian politics and society, and Indian historiography. Each manifests Dr Chandavarkar's hallmark historical powers of imaginative empirical richness, analytic acuity and expository elegance, and the collection as a whole will make both a major contribution to the historiography of modern India, and a worthy memorial to a major scholar. <div class="emptyClear"> <br /><p>Call #: <a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7163353>DS437 .C484 2009</a></p></td></tr></table>http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b716335311/11/2009<td><br /><p>Call #: <a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7153996>DS154.9.Q36 U75 1987</a></p></td></tr></table>http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b715399611/11/2009<td><br /><p>Call #: <a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b6678385>DS556.45.C55 M37 1993</a></p></td></tr></table>http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b667838511/11/2009<table><tr><td width='130' style='padding:7px 0px 7px 0px'; valign='top'><a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7080095><img src='http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0415320895.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg' style='border-style: none'/></a><p><center><a href=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415320895>View title at<br>Amazon.com</a></center>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p></td><td></h2> <div class="content"> <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">Review</h3> <div class="productDescriptionWrapper"> <P><STRONG>the work is an excellent introduction to these three ancient civilisations which combines a depth of research, and a wide focus with a lively literary style, which makes it an easy and highly enjoyable read... this work is an excellent introduction to the Achaemenid, Parthian and Sasanian civilisations, and takes a refreshing, non-western based, approach to ancient history.</STRONG><EM> - Gareth C. Sampson, BMCR</EM></P> <div class="emptyClear"> <br /><p>Call #: <a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7080095>DS275 .B76 2006</a></p></td></tr></table>http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b708009511/11/2009<table><tr><td width='130' style='padding:7px 0px 7px 0px'; valign='top'><a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7077399><img src='http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0415544572.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg' style='border-style: none'/></a><p><center><a href=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415544572>View title at<br>Amazon.com</a></center>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p></td><td></h2> <div class="content"> <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">Product Description</h3> <div class="productDescriptionWrapper"> <P>This book re-examines the multifaceted reality of the Kashmir problem. The state of Jammu and Kashmir had acceded to India soon after India&#x2019;s partition. Pakistan laid claim to it waged wars with India to wrest it. The various decisions taken by the USA and Britain in conjunction with India and Pakistan as to how Kashmir should be governed are discussed.</P><BR><P></P><BR><P>Studying the spread of communism, the book makes extensive use of primary resources available in India and the UK. The principal object of the author is to locate conflict in Kashmir within the international politics of the time, during the Cold War, and especially in the context of India&#x2019;s relationship with the UK. </P><BR><P></P><BR><P>The narratives of the discourse throw light on the varied and salient features of the problem. These have been enriched by an in-depth analysis based on the writings, notes and correspondence of distinguished British and Indian politicians and statesmen. The author has also consulted public documents on US foreign relations as well as other studies. This study explores myths about the Kashmir problem, reinforcing known and unknown truths.</P> <div class="emptyClear"> <br /><p>Call #: <a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7077399>DS485.K27 P36 2009</a></p></td></tr></table>http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b707739911/4/2009<table><tr><td width='130' style='padding:7px 0px 7px 0px'; valign='top'><a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7133525><img src='http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1906011087.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg' style='border-style: none'/></a><p><center><a href=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1906011087>View title at<br>Amazon.com</a></center>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p></td><td></h2> <div class="content"> <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">Product Description</h3> <div class="productDescriptionWrapper"> From the present-day street life of Ginza, to the heights of Mount Fuji in the company of 16th-century traveler and poet Basho: the most recent addition to Eland's Through Writers' Eyes series brings together a chorus of voices from Japan and across the globe. Extracts of prose, poetry and novels from a rich variety of writers, including Jan Morris, Nicolas Bouvier, Oswald Wynd, Peter Popham, Basho, Yasunari Kawabata, Alan Booth, Futabei Shimei, Angela Carter, Joao Rodrigues and Mary Crawford Fraser. <div class="emptyClear"> <br /><p>Call #: <a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7133525>DS805.2 .J32 2009</a></p></td></tr></table>http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b713352511/4/2009<table><tr><td width='130' style='padding:7px 0px 7px 0px'; valign='top'><a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7148448><img src='http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0197270026.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg' style='border-style: none'/></a><p><center><a href=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0197270026>View title at<br>Amazon.com</a></center>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p></td><td></h2> <div class="content"> <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">Product Description</h3> <div class="productDescriptionWrapper"> Archaeological reports and synthetic studies on the history, buildings and architecture, along with a report on Jordan-British excavations at the citadel. A large, well-illustrated volume. <div class="emptyClear"> <br /><p>Call #: <a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7148448>DS154.9.A5 N67 1992</a></p></td></tr></table>http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b714844811/4/2009<table><tr><td width='130' style='padding:7px 0px 7px 0px'; valign='top'><a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7158800><img src='http://images.amazon.com/images/P/9780520255593.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg' style='border-style: none'/></a><p><center><a href=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9780520255593>View title at<br>Amazon.com</a></center>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p></td><td><br /><p>Call #: <a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7158800>DS422.C3 R365 2009</a></p></td></tr></table>http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b715880011/4/2009<td><br /><p>Call #: <a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7063935>DS286 .V46 2009</a></p></td></tr></table>http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b706393510/28/2009<table><tr><td width='130' style='padding:7px 0px 7px 0px'; valign='top'><a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7155761><img src='http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1582435472.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg' style='border-style: none'/></a><p><center><a href=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1582435472>View title at<br>Amazon.com</a></center>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p></td><td></h2> <div class="content"> <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">From The Washington Post</h3> <div class="productDescriptionWrapper"> From The Washington Post's Book World/washingtonpost.com Reviewed by Justin Moyer moyerj@washpost.com Andy Warhol would have appreciated the gesture: On May 23, 1989, as student protests raged, Lu Decheng and two other men hurled 30 paint-filled eggs at the immense portrait of Mao Zedong that dominates Beijing's Tiananmen Square. But in Deng Xiaopeng's China, poli-art stunts weren't mere blog fodder: The gag stranded Lu in prison for almost a decade, cost him his wife and daughter, and led to his eventual defection to Canada. Denise Chong, author of "The Girl in the Picture," a biography of the burned villager in Nick Ut's iconic Vietnam War photo, focuses on another small character in a big story in "Egg on Mao" to unearth startling truths about Chinese democracy. A radicalized auto mechanic from Hunan who flouted China's marriage laws and one-child policy, Lu traveled over 600 miles to Tiananmen only to be spurned by insular student demonstrators, then trumped their ineffective sit-ins and hunger strikes by hurling eggs. Lu's action changed nothing -- other nations' on-again, off-again interest in Chinese human rights has allowed Mao's authoritarian political culture to survive three decades after his death. Still, in a world of compromise and half-measures, it's refreshing to read about Lu's ill-conceived but thoroughly punk-rock gesture of defiance. <BR>Copyright 2009, The Washington Post. All Rights Reserved. <div class="emptyClear"> <br /><p>Call #: <a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7155761>DS779.32 .C516 2009</a></p></td></tr></table>http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b715576110/28/2009<table><tr><td width='130' style='padding:7px 0px 7px 0px'; valign='top'><a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7133519><img src='http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0500543755.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg' style='border-style: none'/></a><p><center><a href=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0500543755>View title at<br>Amazon.com</a></center>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p></td><td></h2> <div class="content"> <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">Product Description</h3> <div class="productDescriptionWrapper"> <strong>A memorable and compelling photographic record from the Islamic world of today.</strong> On September 11, 2001, the photographer Abbas watched the World Trade Center towers fall in New York&#x2014;live on Siberian TV. It spurred him to begin a journey through the Islamic world that would last seven years. The photographs published here are the final result of that project.<br /> <br /> Born in Iran, Abbas casts a sharp eye over a world seen by few from the West. Seeking out people and places that have been overlooked by others, he reveals far more&#x2014;and in greater depth&#x2014;than photojournalists who focus on flashpoints or who race to break the latest news. Abbas is acclaimed for his special ability to freeze a moment in a particular social or political conflict, to frame actions or gestures that instantly become emblematic: what he calls &#x201C;the suspended moment.&#x201D; <br /> <br /> Recording a route through sixteen countries&#x2014;including Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Palestine, Turkey, Indonesia, Thailand, Kenya, and Zanzibar&#x2014;Abbas&#x2019;s pictures and the excerpts from his candid diary reflect the undercurrents of global disturbance, uncertainty, and threat. Yet there are gleams of optimism, too&#x2014;a wedding, an impromptu ball game&#x2014;that remind us of Abbas&#x2019;s gift as a humane interpreter of our existence. 173 color illustrations. <div class="emptyClear"> <br /><p>Call #: <a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7133519>DS35.57 .A23 2009</a></p></td></tr></table>http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b713351910/28/2009<table><tr><td width='130' style='padding:7px 0px 7px 0px'; valign='top'><a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7082053><img src='http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0061583278.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg' style='border-style: none'/></a><p><center><a href=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0061583278>View title at<br>Amazon.com</a></center>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p></td><td></h2> <div class="content"> <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">From Publishers Weekly</h3> <div class="productDescriptionWrapper"> December 30, 2006, was the night Esfandiari's nightmare began. Traveling by car to the Tehran airport, following a visit with her elderly mother, the director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., was robbed. The 67-year-old felt lucky, not to have been injured in what she initially thought was a simple snatching of her belongings, including her passport. A few friends warned of more dire consequences. Esfandiari (<I>Reconstructed Lives: Women and Iran's Islamic Revolution</I>) did not realize that upon returning to her childhood home, she was entering a maelstrom, fueled by the long-standing animosity between Tehran and Washington&mdash;which contributed to her eight-month interrogation, four of which were spent in Evin Prison in solitary confinement. Most disconcerting was the shattering of Esfandiari's feelings for her native land: I felt the country I had cherished all my life was no longer mine. I had loved Iran with a passion.... Yet these horrible people had made me feel alien in my own homeland. In this engaging memoir, Esfandiari weaves together strands of her family and professional life, the problematic and complex history of American-Iranian relations, along with a reasoned eyewitness account of being held as a political prisoner. <I>(Oct.)</I> <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. <div class="emptyClear"> <br /><p>Call #: <a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7082053>DS318.84.I84 A3 2009</a></p></td></tr></table>http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b708205310/28/2009<table><tr><td width='130' style='padding:7px 0px 7px 0px'; valign='top'><a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7148871><img src='http://images.amazon.com/images/P/052151987X.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg' style='border-style: none'/></a><p><center><a href=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/052151987X>View title at<br>Amazon.com</a></center>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p></td><td></h2> <div class="content"> <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">Product Description</h3> <div class="productDescriptionWrapper"> In The Archaeology of Lydia: From Gyges to Alexander, Christopher Roosevelt provides the first overview of the regional archaeology of Lydia in western Turkey, including much previously unpublished evidence as well as a fresh synthesis of the archaeology of Sardis, the ancient capital of the region. Combining data from regional surveys, stylistic analyses of artifacts in local museums, ancient texts, and environmental studies, he presents a new perspective on the archaeology of this area. To assess the importance of Lydian landscapes under Lydian and Achaemenid rule, roughly between the seventh and fourth centuries BCE, Roosevelt situates the archaeological evidence within frameworks established by evidence for ancient geography, environmental conditions, and resource availability and exploitation. Drawing on detailed and copiously illustrated evidence presented in a regionally organized catalogue, the book considers the significance of evidence of settlement and burial at Sardis and beyond for understanding Lydian society as a whole and the continuity of cultural traditions across the transition from Lydian to Achaemenid hegemony. <div class="emptyClear"> <br /><p>Call #: <a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7148871>DS156.L9 R66 2009</a></p></td></tr></table>http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b714887110/28/2009<table><tr><td width='130' style='padding:7px 0px 7px 0px'; valign='top'><a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7133561><img src='http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1845118901.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg' style='border-style: none'/></a><p><center><a href=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1845118901>View title at<br>Amazon.com</a></center>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p></td><td></h2> <div class="content"> <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">Product Description</h3> <div class="productDescriptionWrapper"> <DIV><DIV><P>The Safavid dynasty originated as a fledgling apocalyptic mystical movement based in Iranian Azarbaijan, and grew into a large, cosmopolitan Irano-Islamic empire stretching from Baghdad to Herat. Here Colin Mitchell examines how the Safavid state introduced and moulded a unique and vibrant political discourse which reflected the social and religious heterogeneity of sixteenth-century Iran. Beginning with the millenarian-minded Shah Isma'il and concluding with the autocrat par excellence, Shah 'Abbas, Mitchell explores the phenomenon of state-sponsored rhetoric. He focuses on the large corpus of epistles, letters and missives produced by a developed Safavid chancellery which show how the Safavids forged and negotiated their political and religious sovereignty in a diverse and complex environment. A thorough investigation of the Safavid state and the significance of rhetoric, power and religion in its functioning, <I>The Practice of Politics in Safavid Iran</I> is indispensable for all those interested in Iranian history and politics as well as the wider world of Middle East studies.</P></DIV> <div class="emptyClear"> <br /><p>Call #: <a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7133561>DS292 .M58 2009</a></p></td></tr></table>http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b713356110/28/2009<table><tr><td width='130' style='padding:7px 0px 7px 0px'; valign='top'><a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7154249><img src='http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0231700865.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg' style='border-style: none'/></a><p><center><a href=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0231700865>View title at<br>Amazon.com</a></center>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p></td><td></h2> <div class="content"> <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">Review</h3> <div class="productDescriptionWrapper"> <P>"As this volume demonstrates, the way in which the Gulf states are responding to differing domestic circumstances-declining oil reserves, expanding expatriate populations, and faltering monarchical legitimacy-has led to important variations in the speed of political reform, with Bahrain leading the way, Kuwait seemingly stalled, and Saudi Arabia far behind." -- Christopher Davidson, author of <I>Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success</I></P> <div class="emptyClear"> <br /><p>Call #: <a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7154249>DS326 .P65 2009</a></p></td></tr></table>http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b715424910/21/2009<table><tr><td width='130' style='padding:7px 0px 7px 0px'; valign='top'><a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7133568><img src='http://images.amazon.com/images/P/190649729X.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg' style='border-style: none'/></a><p><center><a href=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/190649729X>View title at<br>Amazon.com</a></center>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p></td><td></h2> <div class="content"> <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">Product Description</h3> <div class="productDescriptionWrapper"> <DIV><DIV><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 3pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none">In <I>Rebels, Wives, Saints</I>, acclaimed scholar Tanika Sarkar continues her revolutionary scholarship on women, religion, and nationhood in colonial Bengal. The colonial universe Sarkar describes in <I>Rebels, Wives, Saints</I> centers around symbols of women as both defiled and deified, exemplified in the idea of woman as widow and woman as goddess. The nation, Sarkar explains, is imagined as a woman-goddess within a country comprising plural cultural traditions. Sarkar also broadens the discussion to consider male reformers who battle Hindu conservatives, a Hindu novelist who idealizes nationalism as a means for overcoming Muslim influence, male-dominant social norms, and theatre and censorship.</P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 3pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none">&nbsp;</P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 3pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none">Throughout the book, Sarkar deploys her trademark focus on small, specific, emotional defining moments in order to arrive at a larger, compelling picture that reveals how people actually feel and experience life in Bengal.</P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">&nbsp;</P></DIV></DIV> <div class="emptyClear"> <br /><p>Call #: <a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7133568>DS485.B49 S357 2009b</a></p></td></tr></table>http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b713356810/21/2009<table><tr><td width='130' style='padding:7px 0px 7px 0px'; valign='top'><a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7154204><img src='http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0824832825.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg' style='border-style: none'/></a><p><center><a href=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0824832825>View title at<br>Amazon.com</a></center>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p></td><td></h2> <div class="content"> <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">Product Description</h3> <div class="productDescriptionWrapper"> Our narratives of postwar Japan have long been cast in terms almost synonymous with the story of rapid economic growth. Scott O'Bryan reinterprets this seemingly familiar history through an innovative exploration, not of the anatomy of growth itself, but of the history of growth as a set of discourses by which Japanese 'growth performance' as 'economic miracle' came to be articulated. The premise of his work is simple: To our understandings of the material changes that took place in Japan during the second half of the twentieth century we must also add perspectives that account for growth as a new idea around the world, one that emerged alongside rapid economic expansion in postwar Japan and underwrote the modes by which it was imagined, forecast, pursued, and regulated. In an accessible, lively style, O'Bryan traces the history of growth as an object of social scientific knowledge and as a new analytical paradigm that came to govern the terms by which Japanese understood their national purposes and imagined a newly materialist vision of social and individual prosperity. O'Bryan also presents surprising accounts of the key role played by the ideal of full employment in national conceptions of recovery and of a new valorization of consumption in the postwar world that was taking shape. Both of these, he argues, formed critical components in a constellation of ideas that even in the context of relative poverty and uncertainty coalesced into a powerful vision of a materially prosperous future. <div class="emptyClear"> <br /><p>Call #: <a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7154204>DS889.15 .O28 2009</a></p></td></tr></table>http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b715420410/21/2009<table><tr><td width='130' style='padding:7px 0px 7px 0px'; valign='top'><a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7071225><img src='http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1845117514.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg' style='border-style: none'/></a><p><center><a href=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1845117514>View title at<br>Amazon.com</a></center>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p></td><td></h2> <div class="content"> <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">Product Description</h3> <div class="productDescriptionWrapper"> <DIV><DIV><P>As the battle for Afghanistan intensifies, with humanitarian workers increasingly finding themselves on the frontline, aid expert Peter Marsden draws on decades of personal experience in the country to unravel the relationship between great power politics and development, from the Great Game era to the present day.&nbsp;While the US has recently been criticized for blurring the distinctions between military and humanitarian operations, the use of aid to further great power strategic objectives is, Marsden finds, nothing new. Examining the interventions of the British in the 19th Century, the Soviets in 1979, and the US in 2001, he brings to light significant new information on the use of aid in pursuit of strategic objectives. Drawing on his own experience, he explains the changing relationship between the aid community and different Afghan governments, including the Taliban.&nbsp;His rigorously argued conclusions are surprising; and make compelling reading matter for military and humanitarian policymakers alike.&nbsp;<I>Afghanistan: Aid, Armies and Empires</I> offers both a coruscating exploration of the relationship between aid and power, and a fresh and original history of Afghanistan through the prism of great power politics.</P></DIV> <div class="emptyClear"> <br /><p>Call #: <a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7071225>DS371.412 .M37 2009</a></p></td></tr></table>http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b707122510/14/2009<td><br /><p>Call #: <a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7076367>DS33.3 .B35 2008</a></p></td></tr></table>http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b707636710/14/2009<table><tr><td width='130' style='padding:7px 0px 7px 0px'; valign='top'><a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7073054><img src='http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0520259076.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg' style='border-style: none'/></a><p><center><a href=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0520259076>View title at<br>Amazon.com</a></center>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p></td><td></h2> <div class="content"> <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">Product Description</h3> <div class="productDescriptionWrapper"> The lavishly illustrated volume presents in dazzling visual detail a highly engaging introduction to almost 2000 years of Chinese history-from the founding of the Chinese Empire in 221 BC to the Ming dynasty, the last dynasty to rule before the country opened to the outside world in the middle of the seventeenth century. <i>China</i> tells this dynamic story through hundreds of breathtaking full-page images of people, landscapes, artworks, artifacts, and more. The inviting, beautifully designed pages feature crisply written, up-to-date text, quotations from ancient sources that establish context for the personalities and episodes for each historic period, extended captions that explore the visual details of the images, information on where to see the images in museums, and more. The book brings together in one convenient place the most significant products of Chinese culture, showing in particular the evolution of the arts, everyday lifestyles, religious beliefs, the coexistence of tradition and innovation, and sacred and profane values. For travelers, students, and general readers of all levels, <i>China</i> brings alive a great and ancient empire. <br> <div class="emptyClear"> <br /><p>Call #: <a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7073054>DS735 .W4813 2008</a></p></td></tr></table>http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b707305410/14/2009<table><tr><td width='130' style='padding:7px 0px 7px 0px'; valign='top'><a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7060762><img src='http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060855029.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg' style='border-style: none'/></a><p><center><a href=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060855029>View title at<br>Amazon.com</a></center>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p></td><td></h2> <div class="content"> <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">Amazon.com Review</h3> <div class="productDescriptionWrapper"> In 1996, 26-year-old Peter Hessler arrived in Fuling, a town on China's Yangtze River, to begin a two-year Peace Corps stint as a teacher at the local college. Along with fellow teacher Adam Meier, the two are the first foreigners to be in this part of the Sichuan province for 50 years. Expecting a calm couple of years, Hessler at first does not realize the social, cultural, and personal implications of being thrust into a such radically different society. In <I>River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze</I>, Hessler tells of his experience with the citizens of Fuling, the political and historical climate, and the feel of the city itself.<p> "Few passengers disembark at Fuling ... and so Fuling appears like a break in a dream--the quiet river, the cabins full of travelers drifting off to sleep, the lights of the city rising from the blackness of the Yangtze," says Hessler. A poor city by Chinese standards, the students at the college are mainly from small villages and are considered very lucky to be continuing their education. As an English teacher, Hessler is delighted with his students' fresh reactions to classic literature. One student says of Hamlet, "I don't admire him and I dislike him. I think he is too sensitive and conservative and selfish." Hessler marvels, <blockquote>You couldn't have said something like that at Oxford. You couldn't simply say: I don't like Hamlet because I think he's a lousy person. Everything had to be more clever than that ... you had to dismantle it ... not just the play itself but everything that had ever been written about it.</blockquote> Over the course of two years, Hessler and Meier learn more they ever guessed about the lives, dreams, and expectations of the Fuling people.<p> Hessler's writing is lovely. His observations are evocative, insightful, and often poignant--and just as often, funny. It's a pleasure to read of his (mis)adventures. Hessler returned to the U.S. with a new perspective on modern China and its people. After reading <I>River Town</I>, you'll have one, too. <I>--Dana Van Nest</I> <em>--This text refers to the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060195444/ref=dp_proddesc_1/175-1765549-8797707?ie=UTF8&n=283155" class="product">Hardcover</a> edition.</em> <div class="emptyClear"> <br /><p>Call #: <a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7060762>DS796.F855 H47 2006</a></p></td></tr></table>http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b706076210/14/2009<table><tr><td width='130' style='padding:7px 0px 7px 0px'; valign='top'><a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7077165><img src='http://images.amazon.com/images/P/3825812162.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg' style='border-style: none'/></a><p><center><a href=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/3825812162>View title at<br>Amazon.com</a></center>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p></td><td></h2> <div class="content"> <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">Product Description</h3> <div class="productDescriptionWrapper"> <p>This volume moves beyond the assumption that European Imperialism was met with cultural ignorance and conservative Sino-centrism by China in the late 19th and early 20th century. Articles closely examine the historical processes involved in the exchange and transmission of ideas, knowledge and technologies between China and Europe. The essays underscore the active and contingent process of the making and unmaking of both Western and Chinese empires. <div class="emptyClear"> <br /><p>Call #: <a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7077165>DS740.5.E85 L56 2008</a></p></td></tr></table>http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b707716510/14/2009<table><tr><td width='130' style='padding:7px 0px 7px 0px'; valign='top'><a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b2376446><img src='http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679411585.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg' style='border-style: none'/></a><p><center><a href=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679411585>View title at<br>Amazon.com</a></center>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p></td><td></h2> <div class="content"> <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">Amazon.com Review</h3> <div class="productDescriptionWrapper"> In the first significant engagement between American troops and the Viet Cong, 450 U.S. soldiers found themselves surrounded and outnumbered by their enemy. This book tells the story of how they battled between October 23 and November 26, 1965. Its prose is gritty, not artful, delivering a powerful punch of here-and-now descriptions that could only have been written by people actually on the scene. In fact, they were: Harold Moore commanded the men of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, who did most of the fighting, and Joseph Galloway was the only reporter present throughout the battle's 34 harrowing days. <I>We Were Soldiers Once...</I> combines their memories with more than 100 in-depth interviews with survivors on both sides. The Battle of Ia Drang also highlights a technological advance that would play an enormous role in the rest of the war: this was perhaps the first place where helicopter-based, air-mobile operations demonstrated their combat potential. At bottom, however, this is a tale of heroes and heroism, some acts writ large, others probably forgotten but for this telling. It was a bestseller when first published, and remains one of the better books available on combat during the Vietnam War. <I>--John J. Miller</I> <em>--This text refers to the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060975768/ref=dp_proddesc_1/192-8104734-3282252?ie=UTF8&n=283155" class="product">Paperback</a> edition.</em> <div class="emptyClear"> <br /><p>Call #: <a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b2376446>DS557.8.I18 M66 1992</a></p></td></tr></table>http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b237644610/14/2009<table><tr><td width='130' style='padding:7px 0px 7px 0px'; valign='top'><a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7082020><img src='http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0801448077.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg' style='border-style: none'/></a><p><center><a href=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0801448077>View title at<br>Amazon.com</a></center>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p></td><td><b>Product Description</b><br /> Representations of Muslims have never been more common in the Western imagination than they are today. Building on Orientalist stereotypes constructed over centuries, the figure of the wily Arab has given rise, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, to the "Islamist" terrorist. In Idols in the East Suzanne Conklin Akbari explores the premodern background of some of the Orientalist types still pervasive in present-day depictions of Muslims-the irascible and irrational Arab, the religiously deviant Islamist-and about how these stereotypes developed over time. <P> <i>Idols in the East</i> contributes to the recent surge of interest in European encounters with Islam and the Orient in the premodern world. Focusing on the medieval period, Akbari examines a broad range of texts including encyclopedias, maps, medical and astronomical treatises, chansons de geste, romances, and allegories to paint an unusually diverse portrait of medieval culture. Among the texts she considers are The Book of John Mandeville, The Song of Roland, Parzival, and Dante's Divine Comedy. From them she reveals how medieval writers and readers understood and explained the differences they saw between themselves and the Muslim other. Looking forward, Akbari also comes to terms with how these medieval conceptions fit with modern discussions of Orientalism, thus providing an important theoretical link to postcolonial and postimperial scholarship on later periods. Far reaching in its implications and balanced in its judgments, Idols in the East will be of great interest to not only scholars and students of the Middle Ages but also anyone interested in the roots of Orientalism and its tangled relationship to modern racism and anti-Semitism. <br /><br /> <b>From the Back Cover</b><br /> &#34;Idols in the East is an excellent as well as a timely book. Suzanne Conklin Akbari's assessments of the primary and secondary sources that come under her scrutiny are judicious, insightful, and fair-minded. Above all, Idols in the East makes clear how wide a range of evidence there is for a discourse of medieval Orientalism and how such a discourse might be understood in the present.&#34;--Iain Macleod Higgins, University of Victoria, author of Writing East <P> &#34;Idols of the East recuperates a lost orientalism and a history of oriental power dropped from the famous Orientalism of Edward Said: for the historical power and cultural significance of the Islamic East, Suzanne Conklin Akbari argues, has been dramatically underemphasized. Akbari carefully unpacks medieval practices of mapping the East, representations of Judaism and Islam, conflations of ethnic and religious terminology, and iconic figurations of the Saracen. Her book reaches beyond medieval studies to furnish an account of orientalism's prehistory that all postcolonialists should read: highly recommended.&#34;--David Wallace, Judith Rodin Professor, University of Pennsylvania <br /><br /> <b>About the Author</b><br /> Suzanne Conklin Akbari is Professor of English and Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. She is author of <i>Seeing Through the Veil: Optical Theory and Medieval Allegory</i> and editor of <i>Marco Polo and the Encounter of East and West</i>. <br /><p>Call #: <a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7082020>DS35.74.E85 A43 2009</a></p></td></tr></table>http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b708202010/7/2009<table><tr><td width='130' style='padding:7px 0px 7px 0px'; valign='top'><a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7082029><img src='http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1598841629.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg' style='border-style: none'/></a><p><center><a href=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1598841629>View title at<br>Amazon.com</a></center>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p></td><td><b>Book Description</b><br /> <p>From sushi bars to anime, video games, and the enduring mystique of the samurai, Japan's fascinating culture is becoming increasingly prominent around the world. Experiencing two major modern economic revolutions and emerging as a major world economic power, Japan has become one of the globe's most influential countries. </p> <br /><br /> <b>Product Description</b><br /> <p>This volume focuses on an often misunderstood nation with vast economic and cultural influence in the United States and around the world. It combines thoroughly up-to-date coverage of Japan's history, geography, politics, economics, and society, with a range of helpful reference tools.</p><p></p><p>Delving deeper than typical reference books, <i>Asia in Focus: Japan</i> is the ideal authoritative introduction to Japanese life for students, businesspeople, travelers, and other interested readers. The volume offers a contemporary look at the Japanese economy, extensive cultural coverage, and a rich collection of photographs. This resource also dispels long-running stereotypes and misconceptions to show Japan's surprising diversity and creativity.</p><p></p> <br /><br /> <b>About the Author</b><br /> Lucien Ellington is codirector of the Asia Program and UC Foundation Professor of Education at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN. He is founding editor of the Association for Asian Studies teaching journal Education About Asia, and his published works include Education in the Japanese Life-Cycle: Implications for the United States and ABC-CLIO's Japan: A Global Studies Handbook. <br /><p>Call #: <a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7082029>DS821 .E5127 2009</a></p></td></tr></table>http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b708202910/7/2009<table><tr><td width='130' style='padding:7px 0px 7px 0px'; valign='top'><a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7071335><img src='http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0521515025.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg' style='border-style: none'/></a><p><center><a href=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521515025>View title at<br>Amazon.com</a></center>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p></td><td><b>Product Description</b><br /> This fascinating study of two British missions to Tibet in 1774 and 1904 provides a unique perspective on the relationship between the Enlightenment and European colonialism. Gordon Stewart compares and contrasts the Enlightenment era mission led by George Bogle and the Edwardian mission of Francis Younghusband as they crossed the Himalayas into Tibet. Through the British agents' diaries, reports, and letters and by exploring their relationships with Indians, Bhutanese and Tibetans, Stewart is able to trace the shifting ideologies, economic interests and political agendas that lay behind British empire-building from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. This compelling account sheds new light on the changing nature of British imperialism, on power and intimacy in the encounter between East and West, and on the relationship of history and memory. <br /><br /> <b>Book Description</b><br /> This compelling account of two British missions to Tibet in 1774 and 1904 provides a unique perspective on the relationship between the Enlightenment and European colonialism. Stewart traces the shifting ideologies, economic interests and political agendas that lay behind British empire-building from the late eighteenth century to the twentieth century. <br /><br /> <b>About the Author</b><br /> Gordon T. Stewart is the Jack & Margaret Sweet Professor of History at Michigan State University. His previous publications include The Great Awakening in Nova Scotia 1760-1791 (1982), The Origins of Canadian Politics (1986) and Jute and Empire: The Calcutta Jute Wallahs and the Landscapes of Empire (1998). <br /><p>Call #: <a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7071335>DS786 .S787 2009</a></p></td></tr></table>http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b707133510/7/2009<td><br /><p>Call #: <a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7059309>DS80.3 .M37 2009</a></p></td></tr></table>http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b70593099/30/2009<td><br /><p>Call #: <a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7064010>DS271.6 .H46 2009</a></p></td></tr></table>http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b70640109/30/2009<td><br /><p>Call #: <a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7060147>DS902.17 .A78 2008</a></p></td></tr></table>http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b70601479/30/2009<table><tr><td width='130' style='padding:7px 0px 7px 0px'; valign='top'><a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b4434941><img src='http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0745314163.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg' style='border-style: none'/></a><p><center><a href=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0745314163>View title at<br>Amazon.com</a></center>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p></td><td><b>Review</b><br /> <DIV><DIV><DIV>&#8216;Broadens current debates on the future of Islamic societies.&#8217; --Middle East <DIV>&nbsp;<DIV>'If you're not satisfied with the mainstream western press's explanation of Saddam Hussein's behaviour or why he's still in power, then read this book... A powerful antidote to the uninformed, prejuding drivel that is the standard western media fare.' --Spectre </DIV> <em>--This text refers to the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0745314112/ref=dp_proddesc_1/185-4186101-7111655?ie=UTF8&n=283155" class="product">Paperback</a> edition.</em> <br /><br /> <b>Product Description</b><br /> <DIV><DIV><DIV>Focusing on the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, Hamdi Hassan offers a balanced examination of the motivation of the Iraqi polity and the conditions that accelerated and facilitated the decision to invade. Hassan examines how Saddam Hussein assessed and responded to American and Israeli intentions after the invasion, the reaction of other Arab states, and the unprecedented grassroots support of the Iraqi leadership. In this context, the author examines the social structure of Iraqi society - families, clans and regional alliances - and the importance of Ba'athism. Hassan also examines the political structure of the country, relating the identity of Arabism - the religion and language that is associated closely with the Pan Arabist ideals - to Iraqi foreign policy.Controversial and critical of the traditional approach of most Middle East studies, this book broadens the ongoing debates on the future of Islamic societies. </DIV> <br /><br /> <b>About the Author</b><br /> <DIV><DIV>Hamdi Hassan is a consultant to the Swedish National Labour Market Administration, working on cases of employment and the integration of immigrants. He has been associated with Al-Ahram Centre for Political and Strategic Studies and the University of Stockholm, where he taught political theory.</DIV> <em>--This text refers to the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0745314112/ref=dp_proddesc_2/185-4186101-7111655?ie=UTF8&n=283155" class="product">Paperback</a> edition.</em> <br /><p>Call #: <a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b4434941>DS79.72 .H425 1999</a></p></td></tr></table>http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b44349419/30/2009<table><tr><td width='130' style='padding:7px 0px 7px 0px'; valign='top'><a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7076376><img src='http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0415777860.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg' style='border-style: none'/></a><p><center><a href=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415777860>View title at<br>Amazon.com</a></center>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p></td><td><b>Product Description</b><br /> <P>This volume provides a coherent and comprehensive understanding of Chinese security policy, comprising essays written by one of America's leading scholars.</P><BR><P><EM>Chinese Security Policy</EM> covers such fundamental areas as the role of international structure in state behavior, the use of force in international politics (including deterrence, coercive diplomacy, and war), and the sources of great-power conflict and cooperation and balance of power politics, with a recent focus on international power transitions. The research integrates the realist literature with key issues in Chinese foreign policy, thereby placing China&#x2019;s behaviour in the larger context of the international political system. Within this framework, <EM>Chinese Security Policy</EM> considers the importance of domestic politics and leadership in Chinese policy making.</P><BR><P>This book examines how Chinese strategic vulnerability since U.S.-China rapprochement in the early 1970s has compelled Beijing to seek cooperation with the United States and to avoid U.S.-China conflict over Taiwan. It also addresses the implications of the rise of China for the security of both United States and of Chinese neighbors in East Asia, and considers the implications of China&#x2019;s rise for the regional balance of power and the emerging twenty-first century East Asian security order.</P><BR><P>This book will be of great interest to all students of Chinese Security and Foreign Policy, Chinese and Asian Politics, US foreign policy and International Security in general.</P> <br /><br /> <b>About the Author</b><br /> Boston College, MA, USA <br /><p>Call #: <a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7076376>DS779.27 .R65 2009</a></p></td></tr></table>http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b70763769/23/2009<table><tr><td width='130' style='padding:7px 0px 7px 0px'; valign='top'><a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7055146><img src='http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0761844716.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg' style='border-style: none'/></a><p><center><a href=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0761844716>View title at<br>Amazon.com</a></center>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p></td><td><br /><p>Call #: <a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7055146>DS799.716 .T94 2009</a></p></td></tr></table>http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b70551469/23/2009<table><tr><td width='130' style='padding:7px 0px 7px 0px'; valign='top'><a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7071249><img src='http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0521880475.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg' style='border-style: none'/></a><p><center><a href=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521880475>View title at<br>Amazon.com</a></center>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p></td><td><b>Product Description</b><br /> This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of the influences that have shaped modern-day Japan. Spanning one and a half centuries from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 to the beginning of the twenty-first century, this volume covers topics such as technology, food, nationalism and rise of anime and manga in the visual arts. The Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture traces the cultural transformation that took place over the course of the twentieth century, and paints a picture of a nation rich in cultural diversity. With contributions from some of the most prominent scholars in the field, The Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture is an authoritative introduction to this subject. <br /><br /> <b>Book Description</b><br /> This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of the influences that have shaped modern-day Japan. Covering topics such as technology, food, nationalism and rise of anime and manga in the visual arts, it paints a picture of a nation rich in cultural diversity. <br /><br /> <b>About the Author</b><br /> Yoshio Sugimoto is a Professor Emeritus in the School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University. <br /><p>Call #: <a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7071249>DS822.5 .C36 2009</a></p></td></tr></table>http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b70712499/23/2009<table><tr><td width='130' style='padding:7px 0px 7px 0px'; valign='top'><a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7076389><img src='http://images.amazon.com/images/P/9780195698800.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg' style='border-style: none'/></a><p><center><a href=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9780195698800>View title at<br>Amazon.com</a></center>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p></td><td><br /><p>Call #: <a href=http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b7076389>DS485.B46 C49 2009</a></p></td></tr></table>http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b70763899/23/2009