Asian History

Kyung Moon Hwang Dynamic and meticulously researched, A History of Korea continues to be one of the leading introductory textbooks on Korean history. Assuming no prior knowledge, Hwang guides readers from early state formation and the dynastic eras to the modern experience in both North and South Korea. Essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Korean or Asian history.

UK November 2021 • US January 2022 • 308 pages • 22 bw illus PB 9781352012583 • £22.99 / $30.95 • HB 9781352013023 • £68.99 / $93.95 ePub 9781352012590 • £20.69 / $27.35 ePdf 9781350932784 • £20.69 / $27.35 Series: Macmillan Essential Histories • Red Globe Press

Environmental History of Modern India

Land, Population, Technology and Development

Velayutham Saravanan, Jamia Millia Islamia, India Exploring the complexity of the environmental history of contemporary India from the early 19th to early 21st centuries, this book covers the exploitation of natural resources by colonial administrators by dwelling on the colonial commercial policy as it impacted the ecology and environment. The book analyzes whether the postcolonial government policies changed in the favour of environmental protection or continued with the colonial policy. The book also dwells on the problem of electronic waste and its adverse impact on the environment, ecology and health and engages with the complexity of the conflict between land and population in relation to the environment.

UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 276 pages HB 9789354353284 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9789354353291 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9789354350504 • £76.50 Bloomsbury Academic India World All Languages (excluding India/Indian subcontinent)

Japan's Empire of Birds

Aristocrats, Anglo-Americans, and Transwar Ornithology

Annika A. Culver, Florida State University, USA As a transnational history of science, Japan's Empire of Birds focuses on the political aspects of highly mobile Japanese explorer-scientists, or cosmopolitan gentlemen of science, circulating between Japanese and British/American spaces in the transwar period from the 1920s to 1950s. Inspired by geographer Diane Massey, themes covered in the volume include social space and place in these specific locations and how identities transform to garner social capital and scientific credibility in transnational associations and travel for non-white scientists.

UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 304 pages • 16 bw illus HB 9781350184930 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350184954 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350184947 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan • Bloomsbury Academic

The Making of the Modern Philippines

Pieces of a Jigsaw State

Philip Bowring, Independent Journalist and Author, Asia Tracing the history of the Philippines from its precolonial era, through its Spanish and American occupations and up to the modern day, this book unravels the complex politics, culture, peoples and economy of this rich and unique nation. Engaging with challenges the Filipino people face today such as federalism, revolution, Mindanao, the diaspora, capitalism and relations with China, it rediscovers the struggles, culture and history of its past to understand the present.

UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 304 pages HB 9781350296817 • £20.00 / $27.00 ePub 9781350296824 • £18.00 / $24.74 ePdf 9781350296831 • £18.00 / $24.74 Bloomsbury Academic

SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan

Christopher Gerteis, SOAS, University of London, UK

Chronicling Westerners in Nineteenth-Century East Asia

Lives, Linkages, and Imperial Connections

Edited by Robert S.G. Fletcher, University of Missouri, USA & Robert Hellyer, Wake Forest University, USA This book presents intimate portraits of Western lives and livelihoods in Japanese and Chinese treaty ports, as well as in the British colonies of Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand, during the 19th century. It does so by examining how Westerners ‘chronicled’ their overseas lives in personal letters, diplomatic dispatches, business records, and academic papers. In doing so, the volume presents new insights into the pace and challenges of daily life and stresses the ‘connectivities’ between its subjects, as Westerners’ lives intersected and moved between Japanese and Chinese port cities.

UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350238909 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350238893 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350238916 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan • Bloomsbury Academic

Gender, Culture, and Disaster in Post-3.11 Japan

Mire Koikari, University of Hawaii, USA The Great East Japan Disaster of 2011 ushered in a new era of cultural production dominated by discussions of safety and security in Japan. This book re-frames fortification as a cultural project imbued with dynamics of gender, nation, military, and empire; indeed, as this study reveals, nationalistic Japanese resilience initiatives both reinforced and defied traditional gender norms. Exploring the social consequences of disasters and resilience building and offering an innovative approach to post-3.11 Japan, this study is essential reading for all those wishing to understand this crucial period of cultural change in modern Japanese history.

UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 240 pages • 8 bw illus PB 9781350212992 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350122499 ePub 9781350122512 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350122505 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan • Bloomsbury Academic