Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2012

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• In Search of Nature

  • Type: E-Book
  • Author: Kenneth G. Henshall
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  • In Search of Nature by Kenneth G. Henshall provides a biography of Tayama Katai, leader of Japan's naturalist movement. This book discusses Katai's prose fiction and perceptions of nature, and also corrects widely held but erroneous assumptions about Japanese naturalism.

• In the Shadow of the Company: The Dutch East India Company and its Servants in the Period of its Decline (1740-1796)

  • Type: E-Book
  • Author: Chris Nierstrasz
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  • Chris Nierstrasz’ In the Shadow of the Company, offers us an insight into the relation between the Dutch East India Company and its servants as it slipped into decline. This relationship altered dramatically in the eighteenth century under internal and external pressures.

• India's Railway History

  • Type: E-Book
  • Authors: John Hurd; Ian J. Kerr
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  • This handbook provides an indispensable reference guide to most aspects of the history of India’s railways. The secondary literature is surveyed, primary sources identified, statistical and cartographic data discussed, and a massive bibliography made available.

• Indo-Muslim Cultures in Transition

  • Type: E-Book
  • Editors Alka Patel; Karen Leonard
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  • The authors in this volume analyze the rich layers of circulation and exchange of art, architecture, and literature within South Asia from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries, focusing on the interaction of Muslims and Islamic traditions with other people and traditions there.