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. |
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Contents
Introduction Monsoon Asia as a Unit of Study | 2 |
Prehistoric Asia | 9 |
South Asia | 20 |
Copyright | |
49 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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
Bibliographic information
| Title | A History of Asia |
| Author | Rhoads Murphey |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | HarperCollins College Publishers, 1996 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 5 Jan 2011 |
| ISBN | 0673994074, 9780673994073 |
| Length | 461 pages |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |