Sökt på: asiens has
totalt 155 träffar
Subhas Chandra Bose and Middle Class Radicalism
Subhas Chandra Bose is notorious in Britain - and famous in India - because he led the Indian National Army, which was armed by the Japanese to fight against the British in World …
Picknick mit den Paschas
Aleppo war lange das drittgrößte Handelszentrum des Osmanischen Reiches. In der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts wurden zudem vermehrt europäische Händler in der Stadt ansässig, …
‘Abdu’l-Bahá's Journey West
This edited volume of specially commissioned essays written for the anniversary of `Abdu'l-Baha's journey to America tells the story of this former prisoner's interactions with the …
Laid to Rest: The Controversy over Subhas Chandra Bose's Death
"e;Laid to Rest: The Controversy over Subhas Chandra Bose's Death is the most comprehensive compilation of hard evidence ever presented on the still hotly-debated demise of one …
The Pasha's Bedouin
Egypt’s history is interwoven with conflicts of Bedouin, governments and peasants, competing over same cultivated lands and of migrations of nomads from the deserts to the Nile …
Subhas Chandra Bose in Nazi Germany
On the morning of April 3, 1941, 'Orlando Mazzotta', a man posing as an Italian diplomat, walked up the steps of the German Foreign Office on the Wilhelmstrasse in Berlin, having …
Gendered and Colonial Lives of Gurkhas in Private Security
This book explores the ways in which affect, colonial histories, and militarism organise global security workforces within private military and security companies(PMSCs). It …
Buddhas of Bamiyan
The Buddhas of Bamiyan in Afghanistan, carved in the sixth century AD, represented two aspects of the Buddha, universal and historical. In March 2001 the Taliban destroyed them. …
The British Army, the Gurkhas and Cold War Strategy in the Far East, 1947–1954
This volume argues that post-war Britain's "imperial over-extension" has been exaggerated. Britain developed and adjusted its defence strategy based upon the perceived Communist …
Spreading Buddha's Word in East Asia
A monumental work in the history of religion, the history of the book, the study of politics, and bibliographical research, this volume follows the making of the Chinese Buddhist …
Longmen's Stone Buddhas and Cultural Heritage
This thoroughly researched book provides the first comprehensive history of how a UNESCO World Heritage site on the Central China Plain, Longmen's caves and the Buddhist statuary …