History : Far East

Turks ruled the Middle East for a millennium and eastern Europe for many centuries and it is an undoubted fact that they moulded the lands under their dominion. It is therefore something of a paradox that the history of Turkey and aspects of the identity and role of the Turks, both as Muslims and as an ethnic group, still remain little known in the west and undervalued in the Arabic and Persian-speaking worlds. This book contributes to historical scholarship on Turkey by focusing on its key foundational myth, the battle of Manzikert in 1071 – the Turkish equivalent of the battle of Hastings. Manzikert destroyed the hold of Christian Byzantium on eastern Turkey and opened the whole country to the spread of Islam, a process completed with the fall of Constantinople and Trebizond some four centuries later. Translations and a close analysis of all the extant Muslim sources – both Arabic and Persian – which deal with the battle of Manzikert are provided in the book. It also looks at these writings as literary works and vehicles of religious ideology and analyses the ongoing confrontation between the Muslim Turks and Christian Europe and the importance of Manzikert in the formation of the modern state of Turkey since 1923. more...

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Examines the role of the international community in the handover of the Dutch colony of West Papua/Irian Jaya to Indonesia in the 1960s and questions whether the West Papuan people ever genuinely exercised self-determination. more...

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An engaging collection of essays written on this exciting and often neglected episode in Chinese history. Drawing on archival and published sources , the authors show the great diversity of groups and communities that made up wartime Shanghai. more...

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From the 1870s to the 1930s the textile industry was Japan's largest manufacturing industry and it had a predominantly female labour force. This book examines the institutions of the labour market during this period of economic development. more...

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This book argues that the Mongol invasion of China in the thirteenth century precipitated a lasting transformation of marriage and property law that deprived women of their property rights and reduced their legal and economic autonomy. It re-evaluates the Mongol invasion and its influence on Chinese law and society. more...

Price: $40.00