Eastern Asia
Subtitle: an introductory history
By: edited by Colin Mackerras.
Contributors: Mackerras, Colin.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Longman
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New South Wales, Australia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 522
Subjects: East Asia -- History.; Asia, Southeastern -- History.
Description: The most current and comprehensive survey of East Asian history and politics available on the market, this is a reliable, coherent and interesting survey of the history of East and South East Asia from the sixteenth century to the present. Two chapters are devoted to Australia's relations with and perceptions of Asia.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Introduction; title: Part 2. Traditions; title: Part 3. Asian responses to the Western challenge, sixteenth to mid-twentieth centuries; title: Part 4. Asia since the mid-twentieth century; title: Part 5. The Australian connection.