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A Global Conceptual History of Asia, 1860–1940

Publication

Hagen Schulz-Forberg (ed.), A Global Conceptual History of Asia, 1860-1940 (London: Pickering & Chatto), 224p, 2014. ISBN 978-1-84893-472-6, Collection: "Perspectives in Economic and Social History" Number 33.

A Global Conceptual History of Asia, 1860-1940 aims to explore the changing concepts of the social and the economic during a period of fundamental change across Asia. Case studies show how adopting Western words reflected regional concepts of economy and society. Hagen Schulz-Forberg and his contributors are on the cutting-edge of transnational history.

Reviews: Jeff Roquen, LSE review of books, http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2014/10/22/book-review-a-global-conceptual-history-of-asia-1860-1940-by-hagen-schulz-forberg/

Ralph Weber, "Birth Pangs of a Welcomed Child", Contributions to the History of Concepts, Vol. 10., No. 2, 2015, 117–121.