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History : Asia: Books & eBooks

A research guide to primary and secondary sources for Asian history.

Selected eBooks

book cover: Republican Beijing: The City and Its Histories
Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century
Korea: A New History of South and North
book: The Sovereign Trickster : Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte
Empire of Convicts : Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia
book cover: Imagined Ancestries of Vietnamese Communism: Ton Duc Thang and the Politics of History and Memory
The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia
book cover: Lever of Empire: The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan
Khmer Nationalist: Sơn Ngc Thành, the CIA, and the Transformation of Cambodia
book cover: Emperor Huizong
Delhi Reborn: Partition and Nation Building in India’s Capital
From Frontier Policy to Foreign Policy : The Question of India and the Transformation of Geopolitics in Qing China
Voices of the Korean Comfort Women: History Rewritten from Memories
Women in the Sky : Gender and Labor in the Making of Modern Korea
A History of Photography in Indonesia From the Colonial Era to the Digital Age
Central Asian World
book cover: Bazaar India: Markets, Society, and the Colonial State in Gangetic Bihar
book cover: The Promise of the Foreign : Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines

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History-Related eBook Collections

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Finding Books Beyond the UW

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Browsing Asian History

The UW Libraries arranges books by Library of Congress call numbers. Though history is covered in every discipline (e.g., women's history may be located in the women's studies call numbers while the medical history may be in the medicine call numbers), the major sections for Asian history are listed below.

DS Asia Suz 3
DS35-DS326 Middle East Suz 3
DS327-DS329 Central Asia Suz 3
DS331-DS498 South Asia Suz 3
DS520-DS689 Southeast Asia Suz 3
DS701-DS937 East Asia Suz 3


For a more specific breakdown of the call numbers see the Library of Congress Classification Online.