Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Rohe, Niko, Fremde Feldzuege: Europaeische Kriegsbeobachter in den Kriegen Japans, des Osmanischen Reichs und der USA, 1894-1898. (Peripherien. Neue Beitraege zur Europaeischen Geschichte 10) 528 S. 2023:10 (Boehlau, GW) <705-908>
ISBN 978-3-412-52852-2 hard ¥17,655.- (税込) EUR 75.00 *

Die Kriege Japans gegen China, des Osmanischen Reichs gegen Griechenland und der USA gegen Spanien konfrontierten die Grossmaechte in den 1890er-Jahren mit sich veraendernden imperialen Ordnungen. Als Augenzeugen, Mittler und Experten rueckten Kriegsbeobachterinnen und -beobachter in Schluesselrollen bei der Bewertung und Verortung der Ereignisse und der Verteidigung europaeischer Fuehrungsansprueche. Das Werk behandelt die europaeische Kriegsbeobachtung, -bewertung und -einordnung von in der Forschung bisher wenig beachteten japanischen, osmanischen und amerikanischen Feldzuegen waehrend der 1890er-Jahre. Der chinesisch-japanische Krieg 1894/95, der griechisch-tuerkische Krieg 1897 und der spanisch-amerikanische Krieg 1898 fielen in eine Zeit des Friedens in Europa und loesten dort reges Interesse aus. Krieg galt als historische Notwendigkeit und ordnungsstiftende Kraft. Fuer Kriegsbeobachterinnen und Kriegsbeobachter, so die Ausgangshypothese, waren die drei Feldzuege indes Chancen und Herausforderungen zugleich: Einerseits boten sie den meist maennlichen Kriegsberichterstattern, Militaers und Diplomaten, aber auch Medizinern und Krankenschwestern, seltene Einblicke in See- und Landschlachten zwischen regulaeren Streitkraeften mit modernen Waffen. Andererseits verlangten sie von ihnen, die ?fremden‘ Kriegserfolge mit eigenen Weltordnungsvorstellungen in Einklang zu bringen. Die Arbeit zeigt die europaeischen Akteure in einer fuer die Hochzeit der imperialen Expansion ungewohnten, aber geteilten Rolle: als Beobachtende in Kriegen ohne Beteiligung der Grossmaechte.

Timo de Vries, Walter / Rudiarto, Iwan et al. (eds.), Geospatial Science for Smart Land Management: An Asian Context. 448 pp. 2023:12 (Routledge, UK) <705-909>
ISBN 978-1-03-239389-6 hard ¥42,735.- (税込) GB￡ 150.00 *

Responsible land distribution in Asia, with ever-increasing limitations in space, requires the use of smart technologies, sophisticated models, intelligent algorithms, and big data repositories. This book presents new land management perspectives and fit-for-purpose, flexible, dynamic, and effective solutions for land management and land administration problems. Written by global experts from different Asian countries, including China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, etc., all these cases demonstrate how and why the uptake of geospatial technologies is booming and how to handle land scarcity and competing spatial interests in both urban and rural areas in Asia.FEATURES Summarizes trends of geospatial technologies in Asia Describes and applies leading-edge geospatial models Explains fit-for-purpose digital land administration Provides case studies and examples that include the use of smart land management tools Helps readers advance their understanding of geospatial and land management scienceTruly an interdisciplinary book, this text is a practical guide for an array of readers, such as practitioners in public and private companies involved in both geospatial and land management applications, as well as graduate students, researchers, academics, and professionals working in land administration, land management, spatial planning, real estate studies, geosciences, geoinformatics, and geodesy.

アジア太平洋地域安全保障評価　2023年
IISS (ed.), Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment 2023: Key developments and trends. 164 pp. 2023:6 (Routledge, UK) <705-885>
ISBN 978-1-03-259444-6 paper ¥25,641.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00 *

The Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment examines key regional security issues relevant to the policy-focused discussions of the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia's premier defence summit convened by the International Institute for Strategic Studies. It is published and launched at the Dialogue and the issues analysed within its covers are central to discussions at the event. Since February 2022, the war in Ukraine has provided a bleak backdrop for discussions about international security. While the war has affected many aspects of security and defence in the Asia-Pacific, the region also has its own dynamics, and important security-related developments have occurred there since the invasion. Among these, China's ever-growing power and increasingly assertive posture remain the leading long-term challenges for the region. This tenth edition of the Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment contains an introduction and six chapters, authored by IISS experts, which investigate important dimensions of the regional security environment, supported by maps, graphs, charts and tables. Topics include: the war in Ukraine and the Asia-Pacific balance of power; strained US- China relations and the growing threat to Taiwan; Asia-Pacific naval and maritime capabilities; China's Belt and Road Initiative; Japanese security and defence policy; and the conflict in Myanmar and the international response. Authors include leading regional analysts and academics at the forefront of research and analysis: James Crabtree, Euan Graham, Nigel Inkster, Nick Childs, Meia Nouwens, Robert Ward, Yuka Koshino, Aaron Connelly and Shona Loong

ハイチ革命以前の奴隷の抵抗
Garrigus, John D., A Secret among the Blacks: Slave Resistance before the Haitian Revolution. 224 pp. 2023:9 (Harvard U. Pr., US) <705-901>
ISBN 978-0-674-27282-8 hard ¥8,613.- (税込) US$ 39.95 *

A bold rethinking of the Haitian Revolution reveals the roots of the only successful slave uprising in the modern world.Unearthing the progenitors of the Haitian Revolution has been a historical project of two hundred years. In A Secret among the Blacks, John D. Garrigus introduces two dozen Black men and women and their communities whose decades of resistance to deadly environmental and political threats preceded and shaped the 1791 revolt.In the twenty-five miles surrounding the revolt's first fires, enslaved people of diverse origins lived in a crucible of forces that arose from the French colonial project. When a combination of drought, trade blockade, and deadly anthrax bacteria caused waves of death among the enslaved in the 1750s, poison investigations spiraled across plantations. Planters accused, tortured, and killed enslaved healers, survivors, and community leaders for deaths the French regime had caused. Facing inquisition, exploitation, starvation, and disease, enslaved people devised resistance strategies that they practiced for decades. Enslaved men and women organized labor stoppages and allied with free Blacks to force the French into negotiations. They sought enforcement of freedom promises and legal protection from abuse. Some killed their abusers.Through remarkable archival discoveries and creative interpretations of the worlds endured by the enslaved, A Secret among the Blacks reveals the range of complex, long-term political visions pursued by enslaved people who organized across plantations located in the seedbed of the Haitian Revolution. When the call to rebellion came, these men and women were prepared to answer.

Gould, Hannah / McClelland, Gwyn (eds.), Aromas of Asia: Exchanges, Histories, Threats. (Perspectives on Sensory History) 246 pp. 2023:9 (Pennsylvania State U. Pr., US) <705-902>
ISBN 978-0-271-09541-7 hard ¥24,783.- (税込) US$ 114.95

A uniquely powerful marker of ethnic, gender, and class identities, scent can also overwhelm previously constructed boundaries and transform social-sensory realities within contexts of environmental degradation, pathogen outbreaks, and racial politics. This innovative multidisciplinary volume critically examines olfaction in Asian societies with the goal of unlocking its full potential as an analytical frame and lived phenomenon.Featuring contributions from international scholars with deep knowledge of the region, this volume conceptualizes Asia and its borders as a dynamic, transnationally connected space of olfactory exchange. Using examples like economic exchange along the Silk Road; the diffusion of dharmic religious traditions out of South Asia; the waves of invasion, colonization, and forced relocation that shaped the history of the continent; and other "sensory highways" of contact, the contributors break down essentializing olfactory tropes and reveal how scent functions as a category of social and moral boundary-marking and boundary-breaching within, between, and beyond Asian societies. Smell shapes individual, collective, and state-based memory, as well as discourses about heritage and power. As such, it suggests a pervasive and powerful intimacy that contributes to our understanding of the human condition, mobility, and interconnection.In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include Khoo Gaik Cheng, Jean Duruz, Qian Jia, Shivani Kapoor, Adam Liebman, Lorenzo Marinucci, Peter Romaskiewicz, Saki Tanada, Aubrey Tang, and Ruth E. Toulson.

Haddad, Mary Alice, Environmental Politics in East Asia. (Elements in Politics and Society in East Asia) 2023:10 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <705-903>
ISBN 978-1-108-96577-4 paper ¥4,843.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00 *

Once viewed as an environmental hazard to the planet, East Asia is now at the forefront of pro-environmental policymaking. The region's progress has been both remarkable and surprising given the pro-business orientation of its political systems and their ideological diversity. Through a focus on three environmental policy areas exhibiting different levels of success, this Element shows how governments in China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan have been able to craft pro-environmental policy by working in collaboration with business and societal interests. The evolution of the region's eco-developmental states has resulted in exceptional progress in the areas of green technology and green finance, mixed outcomes in pollution management, and negligible improvement in addressing environmental justice. As the planet seeks guidance in addressing our collective climate crisis, East Asia offers both hope and caution for how we can craft pro-environmental policies in diverse political contexts.

Jelonek, Adam (ed.), Power-sharing in the Divided Asian Societies. 280 S. 2023:5 (V & R unipress, GW) <705-905>
ISBN 978-3-8471-1575-5 hard ¥10,593.- (税込) EUR 45.00

Many countries in Asia are inhabited by multi-segment societies diversified in terms of race, religion, language and economic status. They have repeatedly provided the basis for analysis of the search for consensus in the construction of a political scene that would ensure the participation in power of each group. Regardless of the chosen model, the distribution of power in multi-segment societies has always been characterized by a state of “unstable equilibrium”. Practical solutions constantly evolved between consociationalism, centripetalism, federalism. In extreme cases they led to political disintegration of states or to permanent domination of one of the segments, most often based on authoritarian solutions. In this volume, a group of scholars specializing in countries of the region, in addition to characterizing the basic social divisions, try to point out the dynamics of the “unstable equilibrium” of power sharing in particular Asian countries and analyze the trends occurring in them in the 21st century.

Luis, Diego Javier, The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History. 320 pp. 2024:1 (Harvard U. Pr., US) <705-906>
ISBN 978-0-674-27178-4 hard ¥9,702.- (税込) US$ 45.00 *

The definitive account of transpacific Asian movement through the Spanish empire-from Manila to Acapulco and beyond-and its implications for the history of race and colonization in the Americas.Between 1565 and 1815, the so-called Manila galleons enjoyed a near-complete monopoly on transpacific trade between Spain's Asian and American colonies. Sailing from the Philippines to Mexico and back, these Spanish trading ships also facilitated the earliest migrations and displacements of Asian peoples to the Americas. Hailing from Gujarat, Nagasaki, and many places in between, both free and enslaved Asians boarded the galleons and made the treacherous transpacific journey each year. Once in Mexico, they became "chinos" within the New Spanish caste system.Diego Javier Luis chronicles this first sustained wave of Asian mobility to the early Americas. Uncovering how and why Asian peoples crossed the Pacific, he sheds new light on the daily lives of those who disembarked at Acapulco. There, the term "chino" officially racialized diverse ethnolinguistic populations into a single caste, vulnerable to New Spanish policies of colonial control. Yet Asians resisted these strictures, often by forging new connections across ethnic groups. Social adaptation and cultural convergence, Luis argues, defined Asian experiences in the Spanish Americas from the colonial invasions of the sixteenth century to the first cries for Mexican independence in the nineteenth.The First Asians in the Americas speaks to an important era in the construction of race, vividly unfolding what it meant to be "chino" in the early modern Spanish empire. In so doing, it demonstrates the significance of colonial Latin America to Asian diasporic history and reveals the fundamental role of transpacific connections to the development of colonial societies in the Americas.

Murthy, Viren, Pan-Asianism and the Legacy of the Chinese Revolution. 288 pp. 2023:10 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <705-907>
ISBN 978-0-226-82798-8 hard ¥21,344.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *
ISBN 978-0-226-82800-8 paper ¥6,468.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

An intellectual history of pan-Asianist discourse in the twentieth century. Recent proposals to revive the ancient Silk Road for the contemporary era and ongoing Western interest in China's growth and development have led to increased attention to the concept of pan-Asianism. Most of that discussion, however, lacks any historical grounding in the thought of influential twentieth-century pan-Asianists. In this book, Viren Murthy offers an intellectual history of the writings of theorists, intellectuals, and activists-spanning leftist, conservative, and right-wing thinkers-who proposed new ways of thinking about Asia in their own historical and political contexts. Tracing pan-Asianist discourse across the twentieth century, Murthy reveals a stronger tradition of resistance and alternative visions than the contemporary discourse on pan-Asianism would suggest. At the heart of pan-Asianist thinking, Murthy shows, were the notions of a unity of Asian nations, of weak nations becoming powerful, and of the Third World confronting the "advanced world" on equal terms-an idea that grew to include non-Asian countries into the global community of Asian nations. But pan-Asianists also had larger aims, imagining a future beyond both imperialism and capitalism. The fact that the resurgence of pan-Asianist discourse has emerged alongside the dominance of capitalism, Murthy argues, signals a profound misunderstanding of its roots, history, and potential.

van Lit, L. W. Cornelis / Morris, James Harry (eds.), Digital Humanities and Religions in Asia: An Introduction. (Introductions to Digital Humanities - Religion) 275 S. 2023:12 (de Gruyter, UK) <705-250>
ISBN 978-3-11-074725-6 paper ¥9,403.- (税込) EUR 39.95 *

In pre-modern religions from Asia we encounter unique scripts, number systems, calendars, and naming conventions. These make the Western-built world of consumer technology an ill fit to our needs. Even tools specifically developed for Digital Humanities often do not support our needs. The problems we face are particularly specific, and therefore solutions are not going to come from anyone but ourselves. However, the barrier to entry is still high for graduate students and scholars without prior experience of digital methods. Our volume aims to guide the enthusiastic colleague through the first perilous phases of folding digital tools into their toolset. We shall explain how to set the right expectations, what type of work can be easiest automated or digitized, how you set up and execute a digital project, and what the specific pitfalls are that we need to look out for. We cover five religious domains: 1) Judaism and Christianity, 2) Islam, 3) Hinduism and Jainism, 4) Buddhism, and 5) Shintoism and Daoism. Concomitantly we have identified eight topical domains: 1) mapping, 2) databases, 3) cataloging, 4) corpus analysis, 5) encoding and editing, 6) online media, 7) manuscript tagging, 8) reflections on the methodological shift.

Weitensfelder, Hubert, Oesterreich und der Buddhismus: Asiatische Abenteuer vom 16. Jahrhundert bis um 1960. 533 S. 2023:6 (Boehlau, AU) <705-252>
ISBN 978-3-205-21742-8 hard ¥14,124.- (税込) EUR 60.00 *

Dieses Buch ist die erste umfassende Darstellung der Vor- und Fruehgeschichte des Buddhismus in der Habsburgermonarchie und in der Republik Oesterreich. Das Augenmerk gilt den Berichten Reisender nach Asien und den zeitgenoessischen geistigen Stroemungen, die das Interesse an dieser Religion foerderten. ?? Hubert Weitensfelder begleitet zunaechst oesterreichische Reisende auf ihre Fahrten in buddhistisch gepraegte Laender. Mit ihren Berichten zaehlten sie zu den fruehesten ?Sinneszeugen“ buddhistischen Lebens. In der Habsburgermonarchie bzw. der Republik Oesterreich verbreiteten sich Kenntnisse ueber diese Religion durch Texte und Bilder ebenso wie durch Gegenstaende. In seltenen Faellen gelangten auch Menschen aus Ost- und Suedostasien nach Mitteleuropa. In Oesterreich wurde das Interesse am Buddhismus durch einige zeitgenoessische Stroemungen befluegelt. Dazu zaehlten Spiritismus und Okkultismus, Theosophie und Anthroposophie sowie die Ethische Bewegung und der Monismus. Auch in Wissenschaft, Literatur und bildender Kunst machten sich gelegentlich Einfluesse dieser exotischen Religion bemerkbar. Erste Bekenntnisse zum Buddhismus erfolgten seit dem spaeten 19. Jahrhundert. Gegen Ende des hier dargestellten Zeitraums schlossen sich einige kleine Gruppen zu einer dauerhaften Organisation zusammen.

唐橋文他編　古代近東及びアジアの宗教における女性
Brisch, Nicole / Karahashi, Fumi (eds.), Women in Religion in the Ancient Near East and Asia. (Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records 30) 300 S. 2023:4 (de Gruyter, GW) <705-160>
ISBN 978-1-5015-1861-4 hard ¥25,881.- (税込) EUR 109.95 *

Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER) is a peer-reviewed series devoted to the publication of monographs pertaining to all aspects of the history, culture, literature, religion, art, and archaeology of the Ancient Near East, from the earliest historical periods to Late Antiquity. The aim of this series is to present in-depth studies of the written and material records left by the civilizations and cultures that populated the various areas of the Ancient Near East: Anatolia, Arabia, Egypt, Iran, the Levant, Mesopotamia, and Syria. Thus, SANER is open to all sorts of works that have something new to contribute and which are relevant to scholars and students within the continuum of regions, disciplines, and periods that constitute the field of Ancient Near Eastern studies, as well as to those in neighboring disciplines, including Biblical Studies, Classics, and Ancient History in general.