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  • Essays on Twentieth-Century Historyby Michael Adas

    Temple University Press 2010; US$ 38.95

    In the sub-field of world history, there has been a surprising paucity of thinking and writing about how to approach and conceptualize the long twentieth century from the 1870s through the early 2000s. The historiographic essays collected in Essays on Twentieth Century History will go a long way to filling that lacuna.   Each contribution... more...

  • Prophets of Rebellionby Michael Adas

    The University of North Carolina Press 1979; US$ 45.00

    Adas explores the relationship between millenarianism and violent protest by focusing on five case studies representing a wide range of social, political, and economic systems. The rebellions examined are: Netherlands East Indies (1825-30), New Zealand (c. 1864-67), Central India (1895-1900), German East Africa (1903-6), and Burma (1930-32). Arranged... more...

  • Japan's Emergence as a Global Powerby James I. Matray; Michael Adas; Ross E. Dunn

    ABC-CLIO 2000; US$ 73.00

    Out of the ashes of its defeat in World War II, Japan arose to become the foremost economic power in the East Asia and a major player on the world economic stage. How did it do this? This work provides a concise summary and analysis of Japan's emergence as a global economic power. This guide discusses the growth of Japan as an unconventional global... more...

  • Strange Parallels: Volume 1, Integration on the Mainlandby Victor Lieberman; Michael Adas; Edmund Burke III; Philip D. Curtin

    Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 30.00

    Lieberman argues that over a thousand years, each of mainland Southeast Asia's great lowland corridors experienced a pattern of accelerating integration punctuated by recurrent collapse. These trajectories were synchronized not only between corridors but, most curiously, between the mainland as a whole, much of Europe, and other sectors of Eurasia. more...

  • Law and Colonial Culturesby Lauren Benton; Michael Adas; Edmund Burke III; Philip D. Curtin

    Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 26.00

    Advances a new perspective in world history, arguing that institutions and culture serve as important elements of international order. Focusing on colonial legal politics, it uses case studies to trace a shift from the multicentric law of early empires to the state-centered law of the colonial world. more...

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