Religion and Public Memory

Namdev is a central figure in the cultural history of India, especially within the field of bhakti, a devotional practice that has created publics of memory for over eight centuries.

Body of Victim, Body of Warrior

This book provides a fascinating look at the creation of contemporary Muslim jihadists. Basing the book on her long-term fieldwork in the disputed borderlands between Pakistan and India, Cabeiri deBergh

Popular Injustice

Popular Injustice focuses on the spread of highly punitive forms of social control (known locally as mano dura) in contemporary Latin America. Many people have not only called for harsher

Of Medicines and Markets

Central American countries have long defined health as a human right. But in recent years regional trade agreements have ushered in aggressive intellectual property reforms, undermining this conception. Questions of

Bazaar India

The role of markets in linking local communities to larger networks of commerce, culture, and political power is the central element in Anand A. Yang’s provocative and original study. Yang

The Limited Raj

The Oxford Handbook of the International Relations of Asia

Comprehensive collection of original chapters by leading authors in the field. Unusual in covering the whole of Asia-including Central and South Asia as well as Northeast and Southeast Asia. Up-to-date

In Defense of Japan

In Defense of Japan provides the first complete, up-to-date, English-language account of the history, politics, and policy of Japan's strategic space development. The dual-use nature of space technologies, meaning that

Japan’s Aggressive Legalism

The ways in which law has interacted with concrete interests to reshape Japan’s foreign trade politics at the start of the twenty-first century can best be characterized as aggressive legalism.

Japan and China in the World Political Economy

Two powers in East Asia today stand to define the region’s economic and commercial future: Japan, which rose in a spectacular industrial burst to become at present the world’s second