History of Asia Resource List
Overview
History of Asia (History 2205) Resource List. Compiled Summer-Fall 2021 by Dr. Maria Ritzema. The following materials are freely available online and are licensed as indicated in the source material.
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History of Asia Resource List
Compiled by Dr. Maria Ritzema
College of DuPage. Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
Compiled and cross checked Summer -Fall 2021.
The following items are freely available online and are licensed as indicated in the source material.
This collection “OER History of Asia Resource List” compiled by Dr. Maria Ritzema is licensed CC BY 4.0.
Regional Connections
Atwill, David G. “Himalyan Asia” in Islamic Shangri-La: Inter-Asian Relations and Lhasa’s Muslim Communities, 1600 to 1960. Oakland: University of California Press, 2018. pp. 65-91. License: CC BY NC ND 4.0
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv941r61
Bhattacharya, Jayati. “Ties That Bind: India and Southeast Asia Connectivities” Online Supplement to EAA. Education About Asia 25, no. 3 (Winter, 2020).
https://www.asianstudies.org/publications/eaa/archives/ties-that-bind-india-and-southeast-asia-connectivities/
Mishra, Patit Paban. “India’s Historical Impact on Southeast Asia.” Online Supplement to EAA. Education About Asia 26, no. 1 (Spring, 2021)
https://www.asianstudies.org/publications/eaa/archives/indias-historical-impact-on-southeast-asia
Obrusánszky, B. “Nestorian Christians in Frontier History.” Journal of Frontier Studies, no. 3 (September, 2019), 175-93.
https://doi.org/10.24411/2500-0225-2019-10024.
Rossabi, Morris. “The Silk Roads: An Educational Resources.” Education About Asia 4, no. 1 (Spring, 1999).
https://www.asianstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/the-silk-roads-an-educational-resource.pdf
South Asia
Ball-Phillips, Rachel M. “Digital Archives: Teaching Indian Colonial History Through Photographs.” Education About Asia 20, no. 3 (Winter, 2015).
https://www.asianstudies.org/publications/eaa/archives/digital-archives-teaching-indian-colonial-history-through-photographs-teaching-resource-essay/
Lamont, Thomas. “‘Give Me Blood, and I will Give You Freedom’ Bhagat Singh, Subhas Chandra Bose, and the Uses of Violence in India’s Independence Movement.” Education About Asia 19, no. 1 (Spring, 2014).
https://www.asianstudies.org/publications/eaa/archives/give-me-blood-and-i-will-give-you-freedom-bhagat-singh-subhas-chandra-bose-and-the-uses-of-violence-in-indias-independence-movement/
Srinivas, Tulasi. “Exploring Indian Culture through Food.” Education About Asia 16, no. 3 (Winter, 2011).
https://www.asianstudies.org/publications/eaa/archives/exploring-indian-culture-through-food/
East Asia
Alexander, Jeffrey W. “Honda Sōichirō and the Rise of Japan’s Postwar Motor Vehicle Industry.” Education About Asia 20, no. 2 (Fall, 2015).
https://www.asianstudies.org/publications/eaa/archives/honda-soichiro-and-the-rise-of-japans-postwar-motor-vehicle-industry/
Booth, Anne E. “The Greater Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere: 1942-1945” in Colonial Legacies: Economic and Social Development in East and Southeast Asia. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2007. pp. 148-163.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt6wr2vx.13
Brown, Clayton D. “China’s Great Leap Forward.” Education About Asia 17, no. 3 (Winter, 2012).
https://www.asianstudies.org/publications/eaa/archives/chinas-great-leap-forward/
Erie, Matthew S. and Allen Carlson. “Introduction to “Islam in China/China in Islam”” in Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review. (Sept 2014) no. 12 pp. 1-13.
https://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/e-journal/articles/cc_introduction_9-14.pdf
Heijdra, Martin J. “Polyglot Translators: Chinese, Dutch, and Japanese in the Introduction of Western Learning in Tokugawa Japan,” in “At the Shores of the Sky” Asian Studies for Albert Hoffstädt. Paul W. Kroll and Jonathan A. Silk, Eds. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2020, pp. 62-75.
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004438200_008
https://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9789004438200/BP000007.xml
Jung, Byung Wook. “Migrant Labor and Massacres: A Comparison of the 1923 Massacre of Koreans and Chinese during the Great Kanto Earthquake and the 1931 Anti-Chinese Riots and Massacre of Chinese in Colonial Korea” in Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review. (Mar. 2017) no. 22 pp. 30-53.
https://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/e-journal/articles/jung_1.pdf
Matray, James I. “The Korean War 101: Causes, Course, and Conclusion of the Conflict.” Education About Asia 17, no. 3 (Winter, 2012).
https://www.asianstudies.org/publications/eaa/archives/the-korean-war-101-causes-course-and-conclusion-of-the-conflict/
https://www.asianstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/the-korean-war-101-causes-course-and-conclusion-of-the-conflict.pdf
Métraux, Daniel A. “Baseball in Japan and the US: History, Culture, and Future Prospects.” Education About Asia 21, no. 2 (Fall, 2016).
https://www.asianstudies.org/publications/eaa/archives/baseball-in-japan-and-the-us-history-culture-and-future-prospects/
Morris-Suzuki, Tessa. “Unthinking Civilisation: An Imbricated History of the Okhotsk Region” in On the Frontiers of History: Rethinking East Asian Borders. Acton: Australian National University Press, 2020. pp. 71-106.
http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/n6994/pdf/ch04.pdf
Rhode, Grant. “Mongol Invasions of Northeast Asia – Korea and Japan.” Online Supplement to EAA. Education About Asia 25, no. 2 (Fall 2020).
https://www.asianstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/Case-Study-Mongol-Invasions-of-Northeast-Asia-1.pdf
https://www.asianstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/Study-Guide-Mongol-Invasions-of-Northeast-Asia.pdf
Perdue, Peter C. “Interlopers, Rogues, or Cosmopolitans? Wu Jianzhang and Early Modern Commercial Networks on the China Coast” in Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review (Dec 2017) no. 25 pp. 63-83.
https://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/e-journal/articles/perdue_0.pdf
Steinberg, John W. “The Russo-Japanese War and World History.” Education About Asia 13, no. 2 (Fall, 2008).
https://www.asianstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/the-russo-japanese-war-and-world-history.pdf
Thum, Rian. “China in Islam: Turki Views from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries” in Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review. (Sept 2014) no. 12 pp. 118-142.
https://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/e-journal/articles/thum_0.pdf
Central Asia
Zimonyi, István. 2018. “Changing Perceptions of Türk Identity Among the Medieval Nomads of Central Eurasia”. Studia Orientalia Electronica 6 (June):79-89.
https://doi.org/10.23993/store.69834
Southeast Asia
Boomgaard, Peter. “In a state of flux: Water as a deadly and a life-giving force in Southeast Asia” in A World of Water: Rain, rivers and seas in Southeast Asian histories. Peter Boomgaard, Ed. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2007. pp. 1-26.
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/48c5/47ae5d2a9793cf2947a124a33c15d349fa75.pdf
Herrera, Dana R. “The Philippines: An Overview of the Colonial Era.” Education About Asia 20, no. 1 (Spring, 2015).
https://www.asianstudies.org/publications/eaa/archives/the-philippines-an-overview-of-the-colonial-era/
Sutherland, Heather. “Geography as destiny? The role of water in Southeast Asian history” in A World of Water: Rain, rivers and seas in Southeast Asian histories. Peter Boomgaard, Ed. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2007. pp. 27-70.
https://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9789004254015/B9789004254015-s003.xml
West Asia
Altaweel, Mark and Andrea Squitieri. “ Long-distance trade and economy before and during the age of empires” and “The rise of shared and universal religions” in Revolutionizing a World: From Small States to Universalism in the Pre-Islamic Near East. London: University College London Press, 2018. pp. 160-178, 240-252.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt21c4td4.10
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt21c4td4.14
Apellániz, Francisco. “‘Men Like the Franks’: Dealing with Diversity in Medieval Norms and Courts” in Breaching the Bronze Wall: Franks at Mamluk and Ottoman Courts and Markets. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2020. pp. 143-205.
https://brill.com/view/book/9789004431737/BP000003.xml
Baird, Ileana. “Circulating Things, Circulating Stereotypes: Representations of Arabia in Eighteenth-Century Imagination” in All Things Arabia: Arabian Identity and Material Culture. Ileana Baird and Hülya Yağcioğlu, Editors. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2021. pp. 69-87.
https://brill.com/view/book/9789004435926/BP000007.xml?rskey=BF4D2n&result=1
De Nicola, Bruno. “Introduction: The Study of Women in the Mongol Empires” and “Women and Politics from the Steppes to World Empire: in Women in Mongol Iran: The Khātūns, 1206-1335. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017. pp. 1-64.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1g09twn.7
Segal, Eran. “Palm Dates, Power, and Politics in Pre-Oil Kuwait” in All Things Arabia: Arabian Identity and Material Culture. Ileana Baird and Hülya Yağcioğlu, Editors. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2021. pp. 54-68.
https://brill.com/view/title/58308