Summary
Designed to cover the entire sweep of Asian history in its broadest definition, from prehistory to the present and into the future. Provides access to state-of-the-art research and also connects readers to the full range of internet resources for research and teaching, including audio, visual, video materials, digitized archives, and other primary sources. Contributors to the ORE are professional historians, independent scholars as well as faculty at institutions around the world. Their essays provide a comprehensive overview of each subject and a brief historiography that will indicate how scholarship has been developing and locate their own contribution. Authors will update their entries in response to feedback from readers and new developments in the field.
Variant and related titles
Also known as: ORE of Asian history
Also known as: Oxford research encyclopedias. Asian history.
Asian history (Oxford University Press)
Oxford encyclopedia of Asian history
Encyclopedia of Asian history