{"product_id":"asia-inside-out-eric-tagliacozzo-9780674598508","title":"Asia Inside Out: Changing Times","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first of three volumes surveying the historical, spatial, and human dimensions of inter-Asian connections, \u003ci\u003eAsia Inside Out: Changing Times \u003c\/i\u003ebrings into focus the diverse networks and dynamic developments that have linked peoples from Japan to Yemen over the past five centuries. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEach author examines an unnoticed moment--a single year or decade--that redefined Asia in some important way. Heidi Walcher explores the founding of the Safavid dynasty in the crucial battle of 1501, while Peter C. Perdue investigates New World silver's role in Sino-Portuguese and Sino-Mongolian relations after 1557. Victor Lieberman synthesizes imperial changes in Russia, Burma, Japan, and North India in the seventeenth century, Charles Wheeler focuses on Zen Buddhism in Vietnam to 1683, and Kerry Ward looks at trade in Pondicherry, India, in 1745. Nancy Um traces coffee exports from Yemen in 1636 and 1726, and Robert Hellyer follows tea exports from Japan to global markets in 1874. Anand Yang analyzes the diary of an Indian soldier who fought in China in 1900, and Eric Tagliacozzo portrays the fragility of Dutch colonialism in 1910. Andrew Willford delineates the erosion of cosmopolitan Bangalore in the mid-twentieth century, and Naomi Hosoda relates the problems faced by Filipino workers in Dubai in the twenty-first. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoving beyond traditional demarcations such as West, East, South, and Southeast Asia, this interdisciplinary study underscores the fluidity and contingency of trans-Asian social, cultural, economic, and political interactions. It also provides an analytically nuanced and empirically rich understanding of the legacies of Asian globalization.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eric Tagliacozzo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674598504\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674598508\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/05\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.60h x 6.40w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2015","brand":"Eric Tagliacozzo","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47930676609279,"sku":"9780674598508","price":49.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b405efb9-2f7b-42da-bc16-52cb643ca3c8.jpg?v=1766343497","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/asia-inside-out-eric-tagliacozzo-9780674598508","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}