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040 _cSurya Book Supplier
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100 _aBasu Prasenjit
245 _a Asia reborn
260 _aNew Delhi
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_c2017
300 _axviii, 680 p
505 _a1. In Europe's Shadow: Asia's Political Landscape in 1900 2. The First Stirrings of Nationalism (1901-1913) 3. The First European Civil War and Its Aftermath 4. The Nascent Clash of Imperial Titans and New Ideologies (1925-1939) 5. The Great Asian War and The EBB of European Empire (1920-1946) 6. Freedom, Revolution and Japan's Miracle Amid the Cold War (1947-1971)
520 _aAsia Reborn unveils the story of Asia’s resurgence over the past century. In the first single chronicle of the modern economic and political history of the whole continent, Prasenjit K. Basu weaves together a compelling account of how Asia’s nations overcame European domination in the twentieth century—and its legacies of war and famine—to begin the long climb to economic dynamism.Asia Reborn shows British, Dutch and French colonies to have had scant infrastructure or modern industry and to have consequently been far behind Taiwan, Manchuria and Korea in social indicators such as literacy and life expectancy by mid-century. In West Asia and Burma, the brief European imprint created the ethnic conflicts that still plague these regions. The British Indian Army held the edifice of empire together. Ultimately, it was the undermining of its legitimacy by the armies of Subhas Bose, Sukarno, Ho Chi Minh and Aung San that helped end the ravaging of Asia during the first half of the twentieth century. By the end of the century, the eastern part of the liberated continent, had emulated Japan and Singapore in transforming itself into an industrious, dynamic and increasingly creative force finally capable of taking its people to new heights in an Asian twenty-first century.
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