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1. Globalizing the Prehistory of Japan

   Language, genes and civilisation

   By Ann Kumar

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Early History of Asia

   This iconoclastic work on the prehistory of Japan and of South East Asia challenges entrenched views on the origins of Japanese society and identity. The social changes that took place in Japan in the time-period when the Jomon culture was replaced by the Yayoi culture were of exceptional...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Java and Modern Europe

   Ambiguous Encounters

   By Ann Kumar

   This book presents a case study of Europe's impact on an old and distinctive non-European civilisation. Part One deals with the elements in Europe's strength, technological, political and intellectual. It also uses Wallerstein's world-systems perspective to give an economic dimension to this...

   Published May 26th 1997 by Routledge