Columbia Chronologies of Asian History and CultureJohn S. Bowman Columbia University Press, 2000 M09 5 - 512 pages Containing more information on Asian culture than any other English-language reference work, Columbia Chronologies of Asian History and Culture is the first of its kind: a set of more than thirty chronologies for all the countries of Asia—East, South, Southeast, and Central—from the Paleolithic era through 1998. Each entry is clearly dated and, unlike most chronologies found in standard history texts, the entries are complete and detailed enough to provide virtually a sequential history of the vast and rich span of Asian cultures. The contributing writers and editors have ensured the book's usefulness to general readers by identifying individuals and groups, locating places and regions, explaining events and movements, and defining unfamiliar words and concepts. |
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... south asia India Political History 251 Arts, Culture, Thought, and Religion 325 Science-Technology, Economics, and Everyday Life 355 Pakistan 370 Bangladesh Bhutan Maldives Nepal Sri Lanka (Ceylon) part three: southeast.
... Asian Languages and Civilizations Harvard University South Asia Ainslie T. Embree Professor of History (Emeritus) Columbia University viii Consultants and Contributors Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore,
... Southeast Asia (Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam) John K. Whitmore Adjunct Associate Professor of History and Research Associate of the Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies University of Michigan contributing writers John S ...
... Southeast Asia, and East Asia. It should also be admitted that there are several gray areas, countries that might have been included. The most obvious one, perhaps, is Afghanistan; but because this chronology reflects historians' views ...
... southeast- ern China ; one in 145 ends with the deaths of nearly four thousand insurgents . March 6 , 145 - July 26 , 146 : Zhidi reigns briefly as emperor and dies under murky cir- cumstances . One account claims that he is murdered ...