A history of Asia /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Murphey, Rhoads
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: New York Routledge 2019
Edition:Eighth edtion.
Subjects:
Asia > History.
Asia.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Geography
  • Population Densities
  • Common Cultural Patterns
  • The Study of Monsoon Asia
  • 1.Prehistoric Asia
  • Early and Paleolithic Cultures
  • The Neolithic Revolution
  • Origins of Civilization in India
  • The Indus Civilization
  • The Aryans
  • Agricultural Origins in Southeast Asia
  • Peoples and Early Kingdoms of Southeast Asia
  • Prehistoric China
  • Korea and Japan
  • Early Asian Commercial and Cultural Networking
  • 2.Asian Religions and Their Cultures
  • Hinduism
  • Buddhism in India and Its Spread Eastward
  • A Closer Look: Gautama Buddha
  • Reading Across Cultures: The Divine Couple and the Human Family
  • Confucianism
  • Daoism
  • Judaism and Christianity in Monsoon Asia
  • Islam in Asia
  • Shinto
  • Asian Religions: Some Reflections
  • 3.The Societies of Asia
  • Social Hierarchies
  • The Family
  • Sexual Behavior
  • The Status of Women
  • Education, Literacy, and the Printed Word
  • Material Welfare
  • 4.The Civilization of Ancient India
  • The Rise of Empire: Mauryan India
  • The Maurya Dynasty
  • Pataliputra and the Glory of Mauryan India
  • A Closer Look: The Emperor Ashoka, "Beloved of the Gods"
  • Kushans and Greeks
  • Southern India and the City of Madurai
  • Ceylon
  • The Guptas and the Empire of Harsha
  • Women in Ancient India
  • The Indian Heritage
  • The Gupta Legacy in the Bay of Bengal Region
  • 5.The Civilization of Ancient China
  • The Origins of China
  • The Shang Dynasty
  • The Zhou Dynasty
  • A Closer Look: Confucius, the Sage
  • The Qin Conquest
  • Qin Authoritarianism
  • The Han Dynasty
  • A Closer Look: Cities in Ancient China
  • Reading Across Cultures: Han Civilization in Vietnam
  • Han Achievements
  • 6.Medieval India
  • Early Islamic Influence in Northern India
  • The Islamic Advance into Northern India
  • The Delhi Sultanate (also called the Slave Dynasty)
  • A Closer Look: Notable Sultans: Ala-ud-din Khalji
  • Southern India
  • The Cholas
  • 7.Early and Medieval Southeast Asia
  • The Setting
  • Origin of Peoples
  • The Eastward Spread of Islam
  • Reading Across Cultures: Conversions to Islam
  • Indianized Southeast Asia
  • Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam
  • A Closer Look: Angkor: City of Monumental Splendor
  • Medieval Pagan and Thai Ayudhya
  • A Closer Look: "Zomia": A New Concept in Political Geography
  • Malaya, Indonesia, and the Philippines
  • Reading Across Cultures: Borobudur
  • Melaka and the Entry of the West
  • 8.China: A Golden Age
  • Reunification in China
  • The Splendor of the Tang
  • A Closer Look: Chang'an in an Age of Imperial Splendor
  • Cultural Brilliance and Political Decay
  • The Song Achievement
  • The Southern Song Period
  • The Mongol Conquest and the Yuan Dynasty
  • Chinese Culture and the Empire
  • 9.Early, Classical, and Medieval Japan and Korea
  • Japan
  • Ties with Korea and the Tomb Builders
  • The Link with China
  • Heian Culture
  • A Closer Look: Murasaki Shikibu (Lady Murasaki)
  • Pressures on the Environment
  • The Kamakura Period
  • Ashikaga Japan
  • Maritime Contacts Between Medieval Japan and the Continent
  • Korea
  • 10.Mughal India
  • The Mughals in India
  • Babur and the New Dynasty
  • A Closer Look: Akbar, the Man
  • The Reign of Aurangzeb: Repression and Revolt
  • A Closer Look: Commerce at the Mughal Port of Surat
  • The Central Asia Connection
  • Reading Across Cultures: Women in Asia
  • Iran: A Brief History
  • 11.New Imperial Splendor in China: The Ming and Early Qing Dynasties
  • The Founding of the Ming
  • A Closer Look: Hongwu: The Rebel Emperor
  • The Ming Tributary System
  • Ming Maritime Expeditions
  • Reading Across Cultures: Piracy in Southeast Asia
  • Prosperity and Conservatism
  • Commerce and Culture
  • A Closer Look: Imperial Beijing: Axis of the Ming World
  • Factionalism and Decline
  • The Manchu Conquest
  • China Under the Manchus
  • Prosperity and Population Increases
  • 12.Tokugawa Japan
  • The Tokugawa Unification
  • Reading Across Cultures: Japanese Overseas Trade in the Tokugawa Era
  • A Closer Look: Edo and the "Floating World"
  • A Closer Look: Hokusai, Master Artist
  • Foreign Pressures for Change
  • 13.The European Advance into Asia
  • Independent Development
  • The Portuguese in Asia
  • Motives for Expansion
  • The Spanish in the Philippines
  • Trading Bases in Asia
  • Reading Across Cultures: The Manila Galleon Trade
  • "Christians and Spices"
  • A Closer Look: Matteo Ricci: Missionary to the Ming Court
  • The Russian Advance in Asia
  • Japan's Christian Century
  • The Dutch in Asia
  • The English in Asia
  • The English in Seventeenth-Century India
  • 14.British India
  • The Mughal Collapse
  • Westerners in India
  • The Early English Presence
  • The Mughal and Post-Mughal Contexts
  • Anglo-French Rivalry and the Conquest of Bengal
  • A Closer Look: Robert Clive and the Beginnings of British India
  • The Orientalists and the Bengal Renaissance
  • A Closer Look: Calcutta, Colonial Capital
  • From Tolerance to Arrogance
  • The Revolt of 1857
  • The Consolidation of the British Empire in India
  • British Imperial India
  • A Closer Look: New Delhi: Indian Summer of the Raj
  • 15.The Triumph of Imperialism in Asia
  • The New Imperialism
  • The Decline of The Qing
  • The Opium War
  • China Besieged
  • Choson Korea in Decline
  • Japan Among the Powers
  • A Closer Look: Ito Hirobumi: Meiji Statesman
  • Colonial Regimes in Southeast Asia
  • Imperialism and Americans in Asia
  • Imperialism and Cultural Change
  • Reading Across Cultures: Imperialism and Asia
  • The Legacy of Western Control
  • 16.Nationalism and Revolution in China and India
  • The Fall of the Qing, 1860
  • 1911
  • Chaos and Warlordism
  • A Closer Look: Prominent Figures in the May Fourth Movement
  • China in the 1920s and 1930s
  • A Closer Look: Shanghai: The Model Treaty Port
  • India Under Colonial Rule
  • The Beginnings of Indian Nationalism
  • Reading Across Cultures: The Rise of Asian Nationalism
  • Enter Gandhi
  • India Moves Toward Independence
  • 17.Japan and the Struggle for Asia, 1920
  • 1945
  • Japan in the 1920s: Taisho Democracy and Its Fate
  • Japan's Economy and Military
  • Reading Across Cultures: The Interwar Years
  • The War in China
  • A Closer Look: Chongqing: Beleaguered Wartime Capital
  • The Rise of Southeast Asian Nationalism
  • The Outbreak of the Pacific War
  • Burma and India
  • 18.Revival and Revolution in Japan and China
  • The Revival of Japan
  • A Closer Look: Tokyo and the Modern World
  • China in Revolution
  • A Closer Look: Jiang Qing and the Gang of Four
  • Taiwan
  • Hong Kong
  • China, Taiwan, and Overseas Chinese
  • 19.Korea and Southeast Asia: Decolonization, Cold War, and After
  • Korea Under Japanese Rule
  • Division and War
  • Korea Since 1960
  • Southeast Asia Since World War II
  • Vietnam
  • Bloody Cambodia
  • Laos: The Forgotten Country
  • Reading Across Cultures: The Rediscovery and Restoration of Angkor
  • Burma, Thailand, Malaya, and Singapore
  • Indonesia
  • The Philippines
  • Regional Cooperation in ASEAN
  • 20.South Asia: Independence, Political Division, and Development
  • Partition and Independence
  • Bangladesh and Pakistan
  • Afghanistan
  • Sri Lanka
  • Nepal
  • India After Independence
  • A Closer Look: Female Leaders of South Asia
  • Indian and South Asian Achievements and Shortcomings
  • Reading Across Cultures: India and the Global Market
  • 21.Asia in the Twenty-First Century
  • Population Growth
  • Pollution
  • Urbanization
  • Economic Growth Rates
  • Cultural Tradition in Modern Asia
  • A Country-by-Country Survey.

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