Makers of modern Asia / edited by Ramachandra Guha.

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Guha, Ramachandra [editor.]

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text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780674735781
0674735781
0674365410
9780674365414
9780674970809
0674970802

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Makers of modern Asia.DDC classification:

950.4/20922 23

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DS35.2 .M36 2014eb

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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.

Summary: 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 implemented political systems.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

880-01 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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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 implemented political systems.

In English.

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