Slight cover wear withscattered flecking; previous owner's stamp and signature front endpapers. ; 15 x 24 cm.; pg. viii, 265 ; Contributors include members of the Department of Oriental History, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Preface; gilt lettering on cover and spine. "Obvious difficulties confront those general readers and historians of the West who come to study Oriental history. Among other things the strangeness of Oriental personal and place names, the transliteration and pronunciation of Oriental languages, the meanings of the main political, economic, social and religious terms and the unfamiliar systems of dating used in Oriental lands, constitute formidable problems. Clearly such readers need a companion to Oriental historical studies, which will both identify these problems and give guidance through the more important difficulties. The Handbook seeks to perform these functions through the range of Oriental history from ancient to modern times and across the whole field of Asia from the Near to the Far East. " Contributors include: The Near and Middle East, by Bernard Lewis; India and Pakistan, by C. H. Philips; South-East Asia and the Archipelago, by D. G. E. Hall; China, by O. P. N. B. Van Der Sprenkel; and Japan, by W. G. Beasley.

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