Makers of modern Asia /

The twenty-first century has been dubbed the Asian Century. Highlighting diverse thinker-politicians rather than billionaire businessmen, Makers of Modern Asia presents eleven leaders who theorized and organized anticolonial movements, strategized and directed military campaigns, and designed and im...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Guha, Ramachandra (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Since 1945
Politicians > Asia > Biography.
Culture and History of non-European Territories.
Geschichte Asiens.
Global History.
History.
Hommes politiques > Asie > Biographies.
HISTORY > Asia > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political.
Diplomatic relations.
Politics and government
Politicians.
Politiska förhållanden.
Politiker.
Asia > Politics and government > 1945-
Asia > Foreign relations > 1945-
Asie > Politique et gouvernement > 1945-
Asie > Relations extérieures > 1945-
Asia.
Biographies.
collective biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the politics behind the economics of Asia's rise / Ramachandra Guha
  • Gandhi, India, and the world / Ramachandra Guha
  • Chiang Kai-shek and Chinese modernization / Jay Taylor
  • Ho Chi Minh : nationalist icon / Sophie Quinn-Judge
  • Mao Zedong and charismatic Maoism / Rana Mitter
  • Jawaharlal Nehru : a romantic in politics / Ramachandra Guha
  • Zhou Enlai and China's "prolonged rise" / Chen Jian
  • Sukarno : anticipating an Asian century / James R. Rush
  • Deng Xiaoping and the China he made / Odd Arne Westad
  • Indira Gandhi : India and the world in transition / Srinath Raghavan
  • Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew : traveling light, traveling fast / Michael D. Barr
  • Zulfikar Ali Bhutto : in pursuit of an Asian Pakistan / Farzana Shaikh.

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