"This volume owes its origins to the workshop 'Colonial anthropology in East and South-East Asia: a comparative view' which met in 1995 on 18-20 May in the Centre for Japanese and Korean Studies in ...

Thomas Babington Macaulay, member of the Governor-General's council of India in 1835, famously said that all the literature of India and Arabia were not worth one single shelf of English literature.

The recent uprising in the French territory, once an essential bastion of U.S. power projection, holds deeper meaning for strategists. “Territorial empire has mattered for the United States, even if ...

The ruins of Sikandar Bagh palace in Lucknow, India, following the put-down of the Indian rebellion of 1857. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Nicholas Spykman, the author of “America’s Strategy in World ...

What was the British connection to an embroidered "Mughal textile" crafted in India in the early 18th century? The early 18th-century embroidered silk and linen textile a guest named Kitty brought to ...

THERE have been changes, during the war, in the prestige of every country now at war. In each case, the military factors of the prestige have interacted with political factors. We are now in a new ...

In the mid-twentieth century, a set of South Asian countries collectively experienced a catharsis from colonizers' rule. The period that followed sparked an era of ideas and philosophies for a new ...

The conference takes place at the Far Eastern Federal University, where the impact of colonialism on interethnic relations and the economic situation, as well as the problem of neo-colonialism, is ...