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Afghanistan on the Threshold of the 21st Century: Three Essays on Culture and Society
	Centlivres, Pierre and Micheline Centlivres-Demont Subject: Middle East	Two prominent anthropologists describe their long “journey” with the Afghan people, a journey that lasted thirty years and was punctuated by the events that caused Afghanistan’s transformation from the monarchic state of Zaher Shah to Daoud’s republic, from the Communist … More Information

Al-Narshakhi’s The History of Bukhara
	Narshakhi, Abu Bakr Muhammad (translated and edited by Richard N. Frye) Subject: Middle East	Al-Narshakhi’s The History of Bukhara is unusual among histories of Middle Eastern cities because it provides a broad and perceptive overview of urban life of the time, as opposed to the standard biographies of religious leaders. Richard Frye’s translation from … More Information

Bitter Bonds: A Colonial Divorce Drama of the Seventeenth Century
	Blussé, Leonard (translated by Diane Webb) Subject: World History, European History, Asian History, Women's History	Book of the Year – Times Literary Supplement In seventeenth-century Batavia, Cornelia van Nijenroode, the daughter of a geisha and a Dutch merchant in Japan, was known as “otemba” (meaning “untamable”), which made her a heroine to … More Information

Chinese Travelers to the Early Turkish Republic
	Fidan, Giray Subject: Middle Eastern History, Asian History, Documents and Primary Sources	PRINCETON SERIES OF MIDDLE EASTERN SOURCES IN TRANSLATION Edited by Near Eastern Studies Department By the end of the 19th century and the first quarter of the 20th century, China was in turmoil, facing an existential crisis. Chinese politicians and … More Information

Colonialism (Updated and Expanded Edition)
	Osterhammel, Jürgen Subject: World History	“Osterhammel (History, U. of Constance) argues that the global mercantile expansion of the European powers of the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries bears a marked resemblance to the political imperialism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Further, although there are … More Information

Hinduism and Islam in India: Caste, Religion, and Society from Antiquity to Early Modern Times
	Desika Char, S. V. (edited by Noel Q. King) Subject: Asia, Religion	While there are numerous books on Islam and the West, this analysis of Islam takes a novel approach by focusing on the Hindu perspective. Islam and Hinduism co-existed in India for hundreds of years, dominating, suppressing, and influencing one another. … More Information

Ibn Fadlan’s Journey To Russia: A Tenth-Century Traveler From Baghdad to the Volga River
	Frye, Richard N., editor Subject: Asia, Europe, Middle East, Religion	This is the first English translation of the famous Risala, letters by the tenth-century traveler Ibn Fadlan, one of the great medieval travelers in world history, akin to Ibn Battuta. Ibn Fadlan was an Arab missionary sent by the Caliph … More Information

Japan’s Economy: A Bibliography of Its Past and Present
	Wray, William D. Subject: Asia	This useful bibliography covers Early Modern Japan (Tokugawa period through the Restoration era), Modern Japan (1868-1945, World War II, the Occupation and Postwar eras) and Contemporary Japan.

Japanese History and Culture from Ancient to Modern Times: Seven Basic Bibliographies
	Dower, John W. and Timothy S. George Subject: Asia, Japan	A collection of seven bibliographies on Japanese history and culture from ancient to modern times. It should be useful as a research list, and seeks to include many unusual, elusive and valuable sources. “An imagination and comprehensive guide … More Information

Kabul Under Siege: Fayz Muhammad’s Account of the 1929 Uprising
	Muhammad, Fayz (translated by R. D. McChesney) Subject: Middle East	In January 1929, the reigning monarch of Afghanistan, Amir Aman Allah Khan, was driven from his capital by a former soldier turned outlaw. The uprising was a response to the ruler’s attempts to modernize the tribal culture of Afghanistan. Kabul, … More Information