Asiens historia

Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity

av Nicola Di Cosmo

Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity offers an integrated picture of Rome, China, Iran, and the Steppes during a formative period of world history. In the half millennium between 250 and 750 CE, settled empires underwent deep structura...

The Historian and her Craft

av Romila Thapar

This is a set of four volumes aimed at bringing together the best research by Romila Thapar to showcase her academic contributions to the understanding of history and historiography in India. The four volumes will focus on bringing together all th...

Healing Past

This volume focuses on our present knowledge of pharmaceuticals in the Biblical and Rabbinic world, a subject which has received little attention. Although many aspects of ancient Near Eastern cultural life have been studied thoroughly, no one has...

Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

av Ronen Bergman

Hindu Nationalism

av Chetan Bhatt

The rise of authoritarian Hindu mass movements and political formations in India since the early 1980s raises fundamental questions about the resurgence of chauvinistic ethnic, religious and nationalist movements in the late modern period. This bo...

Roten till det onda : uppdelningen av Mellanöstern 1916-2016

av Ingmar Karlsson

»Den är som den låter: lärd. Karlsson, en ex-diplomat, är Sveriges främsta auktoritet på Mellanösternfrågor. Jag är ganska bra på ämnet men jag lärde mig mycket, mycket. Karlsson skriver fängslande och pedagogiskt.« Staffan Heimersson, Aftonbladet...

Southeast Asia and the Vietnam War

av Cheng Guan Ang

This book describes and explains Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore's attitudes and policies regarding the Vietnam War. While it is generally known that all three countries supported the US war effort in Vietnam, it reveals the motivations behind t...

Ancient West Asian Civilization

av Akira Tsuneki, Shigeo Yamada, Kenichiro Hisada

This book explores aspects of the ancient civilization in West Asia, which has had a great impact on modern human society-agriculture, metallurgy, cities, writing, regional states, and monotheism, all of which appeared first in West Asia during th...

Konfucius samtal

av Konfucius, Torbjörn Lodén

Konfucius samtal betraktas som det mest inflytelserika verket i Kinas historia. Trots att Konfucius levde för 2 500 år sedan är han än idag flitigt citerad och hans lära både brukas och missbrukas. Torbjörn Lodén, en av Sveriges främsta sinologer,...

Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict

av Charles D Smith

The gold standard of texts on the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict provides a comprehensive, balanced, and accessible narrative of a complex historical topic. The ninth edition explores the relationships...

Voices of Terror

av Co-Chairman International Research Council Walter Laqueur

Renowned historian and international scholar Walter Laqueur offers a sweeping survey of writing on one of the most pressing issues facing the world today: the use of violence as a tool for political change. From ancient Roman tyrannicides and Fren...

Land's End

av Tania Murray Li

Drawing on two decades of ethnographic research in Sulawesi, Indonesia, Tania Murray Li offers an intimate account of the emergence of capitalist relations among indigenous highlanders who privatized their common land to plant a boom crop, cacao. ...

The Public Sphere in Muslim Societies

av Miriam Hoexter, Shmuel N Eisenstadt, Nehemia Levtzion

Eight papers developed during a two-year workshop at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute were presented in finished form at an October 1997 international conference held there. Social scientists, historians, and area scholars argue that traditional, ...

Lexicon of Arms and Armor from Iran: A Study of Symbols and Terminology

av Manouchehr Moshtagh Khorasani

The Lexicon of Arms and Armor from Iran: A Study of Symbols and Terminology is the first lexicon in its field which is specially dedicated to a thorough analysis of arms and armor. The author Dr. Manouchehr Moshtagh Khorasani was awarded the World...

Killing Orders

av Taner Akcam

The book represents an earthquake in genocide studies, particularly in the field of Armenian Genocide research. A unique feature of the Armenian Genocide has been the long-standing efforts of successive Turkish governments to deny its historicity ...

Vi och dom : Bengt Jangfeldt om Ryssland som idé

av Bengt Jangfeldt

Ryssland - en egen civilisation? Allt ifrån Peter den store till Vladimir Putin har frågan om Rysslands förhållande till Väst och västerländska värderingar upptagit och splittrat landet. Samma dualism präglar ett annat särdrag i rysk historia, näm...

Beyond Nation

av Richard Calichman

In the work of writer Abe Kobo (1924-1993), characters are alienated both from themselves and from one another. Through close readings of Abe's work, Richard Calichman reveals how time and writing have the ability to unground identity. Over time, ...

Russian-Turkmen Encounters

av S Peter Poullada

In the mid-eighteenth century the Russian tsar sent two expeditions across the Caspian Sea in response to an extraordinary plea for assistance from the recently subjugated Kalmyk Khan. The official journals of these expeditions, here translated in...

Rysslands historia

av Kristian Gerner

»Lysande!« Per T. Ohlsson, Sydsvenskan »En mycket läsvärd bok« Upsala Nya Tidning »Gerners bok blir säkert ett standardverk för lång tid framöver.« Populär Historia En gedigen och modern framställning om rysk historia! I Rysslands historia berätta...

The Rape of Nanking

av Iris Chang

In December 1937, the Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking. Within weeks, more than 300,000 Chinese civilians and soldiers were systematically raped, tortured, and murdered,a death toll exceeding that of the atomic blasts of Hirosh...

Inga vänner utom bergen : kurdernas historia

av Ingmar Karlsson

Högaktuell läsning om kurdernas brokiga historia »Ingmar Karlsson bemästrar balansgångens konst .... han ger en strålande sammanfattning av kurdernas historia och politiska aspirationer.« Dagbladet »En gedigen genomgång av kurdernas historia ... b...

Border Capitalism, Disrupted

av Stephen Campbell

Border Capitalism, Disrupted presents an insightful ethnography of migrant labor regulation at the Mae Sot Special Border Economic Zone on the Myanmar border in northwest Thailand. By bringing a new deployment of workerist and autonomist theory to...

Det nya Kina : den repressiva stormakten

av Jojje Olsson

Högaktuell bild av världens nya supermakt »En heltäckande och intressant bok om dagens Kina och de allvarliga problem landet står inför.« Tidskriften Respons »Det är en jobbig men nödvändig bok som journalisten Jojje Olsson skrivit om Kina. Jobbig...

Babylon of Egypt

av Peter Sheehan

This book presents a history of Old Cairo based on new archaeological evidence gathered between 2000 and 2006 during a major project to lower the groundwater level affecting the churches and monuments of this area of Cairo known by the Romans as B...

Terrorns rike : hur en våldsam sekt från Arabiska öknen radikaliserade islam

av Carl Schiøtz Wibye

Saudi¿arabien är världens största exportör inte bara av olja, utan också av wahhabism, den sekteristiska gren av islam som är landets statsreligion, och till vars ¿utlöpare räknas vålds¿inriktade jihadistiska rörelser som talibanerna, ¿Isla¿miska ...

I revolutionens Peking : intriger, drömmar, stormaktspel

av Örjan Berner

Författaren tjänstgjorde 19671971 på svenska ambassaden i Peking. Det var Mao Zedongs och kulturrevolutionens tid. Landet var i kaos. Gränsstrider pågick mellan Kina och Sovjetunionen och ett storkrig hotade. Vietnamkriget rasade. År 1971 kom den ...

Ending the Vietnam War

av Cheng Guan Ang

Existing studies of the Vietnam War have been written mostly from an American perspective, using western sources, and viewing the conflict through western eyes. This book, based on extensive original research, including Vietnamese, Chinese and for...

Pakistan's Drift into Extremism: Allah, the Army, and America's War on Terror

av Hassan Abbas

This book examines the rise of religious extremism in Pakistan, particularly since 1947, and analyzes its connections to the Pakistani army's corporate interests and U.S.-Pakistan relations. It includes profiles of leading Pakistani militant group...

Destroying Yemen

av Isa Blumi

Since March 2015, a Saudi-led international coalition of forces-supported by Britain and the United States-has waged devastating war in Yemen. Largely ignored by the world's media, the resulting humanitarian disaster and full scale famine threaten...

The Vietnam War from the Other Side

av Cheng Guan Ang

Existing studies of the Vietnam War have been written mostly from an American perspective, using western sources, and viewing the conflict through western eyes. This book, based on extensive original research, including Vietnamese, Chinese and for...