A Short History of Asia - Mason, Colin
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This second edition of Colin Mason's successful A Short History of Asia includes the substantial changes and additions made necessary by the fast-changing scene in Asia, particularly China's increasing prominence in world affairs. There are new chapters on World War Two and its significance in Asia, Afghanistan and Taiwan, as well as extensive reworking of the chapters on the nations of South Asia. Maps and illustrations, new for this edition, enrich the text.
Table of contents:
List of Maps
List of Illustrations
Introduction
PART I: BEFORE IMPERIALISM
Prehistory and the…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
This second edition of Colin Mason's successful A Short History of Asia includes the substantial changes and additions made necessary by the fast-changing scene in Asia, particularly China's increasing prominence in world affairs. There are new chapters on World War Two and its significance in Asia, Afghanistan and Taiwan, as well as extensive reworking of the chapters on the nations of South Asia. Maps and illustrations, new for this edition, enrich the text.

Table of contents:
List of Maps
List of Illustrations
Introduction
PART I: BEFORE IMPERIALISM
Prehistory and the First Indian Civilisations
The Development of Indian Culture
Early South-East Asia
China: The Eternal Nation
Early Japan and the Tang Dynasty in China
The Awakening of Europe and the Challenge of Islam
Floodtide in China: The Song, Mongol and Ming Dynasties
China: Ebbtide
The Three Makers of Japan and the Tokugawa Period
PART II: THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN
The Dominators and the Dominated
South-East Asia: The European and Chinese Incursions and Later History of the Mainland Peoples
The Malay World: Majapahit and Malacca
Indonesia: The Last Independent Kingdoms and the Extension of Dutch Rule
India Under Two Masters: The Grand Moguls and the East India Company
Gandhi's India: The Struggle for Liberty
PART III: THE MODERN NATIONS
World War Two and the End of Empire
South Asia: Freedom, Partition and Tragedy
Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan
China: Two Revolutions
Modern China: The Communist State
Indonesia: Sukarno and After
Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei
Japan: The Iron Triangle
Thailand: Two Hats - The Struggle for Democracy
The Philippines: Trouble in Paradise
Korea: Divided Nation
Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia
Burma: Rule By the Gun
Asia - Today and Tomorrow
Suggested Further Reading
Index
Autorenporträt
COLIN MASON has been Chief Correspondent in Asia for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, a diplomat, a senator and leader of his party in the Senate.