A History of AsiaA History of Asia places an emphasis on social history, paying particular attention to cultural and religious trends and offering explicit comparisons among the major Asian traditions and between Asia and the western world. The second edition includes a new chapter on Japan, increased coverage of social history, urban history, women, and the environment, and an updated bibliography. |
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... India indeed a great tradition , one of the major achievements of the human experience . This chapter began by summarizing the origins , flower- ing , and decline of the Indus civilization from roughly 3000 B.C. to about 2000 B.C. ...
... India indeed a great tradition , one of the major achievements of the human experience . This chapter began by summarizing the origins , flower- ing , and decline of the Indus civilization from roughly 3000 B.C. to about 2000 B.C. ...
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... India Office ). Calcutta in 1690 as the beginning of Britain's Indian em- pire . But until the nineteenth century , the British were very far from seeing themselves as conquerors ; nor did they expect or plan to become the government of ...
... India Office ). Calcutta in 1690 as the beginning of Britain's Indian em- pire . But until the nineteenth century , the British were very far from seeing themselves as conquerors ; nor did they expect or plan to become the government of ...
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... India . Berkeley , California : University of California Press , 1991 . Bayly , C. A. Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1988 . Bearce , G. D. British Attitudes Towards India ...
... India . Berkeley , California : University of California Press , 1991 . Bayly , C. A. Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1988 . Bearce , G. D. British Attitudes Towards India ...
Contents
Introduction Monsoon Asia as a Unit of Study | 2 |
Prehistoric Asia | 9 |
South Asia | 20 |
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agriculture American areas army Asian Aurangzeb base became began Bengal British Buddhism built Burma called Cambridge capital Central Asia century A.D. Ch'ing China Chinese cities civilization colonial Communist Confucian conquest continued court culture Delhi Delhi sultanate developed dominant Dutch dynasty earlier early East economic efforts emperor empire especially Europe foreign Han dynasty Hindu Hinduism imperial India Indonesia Indus irrigation Islam Japan Japanese kingdoms Korea Kuomintang land later major Manchuria Marathas ment merchants military Ming modern Mongol monsoon mountains Mughal Muslim nese nomads north China northern official originally peasants Peking period Philippines political population ports Portuguese probably religion remained rice rival River rule rulers Shang ships Sinkiang society Southeast Asia southern spread Sumer Sung Tang Taoism temples Tibet tion trade traditional troops ture University Press Valley Vietnam West Western women Yangtze York