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Makers of modern Asia / edited by Ramachandra Guha.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextDescription: 385 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780674365414 (alk. paper)
  • 0674365410 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 950.4/20922 23
LOC classification:
  • DS35.2 .M36 2014
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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Books Books SAIACS General Stacks Non-fiction 320.95 G942M (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 052526

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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