James E Rush

Makers of Modern Asia

Hardly more than a decade old, the twenty-first century has already been dubbed the Asian Century in recognition of China and India’s increasing importance in world affairs. Yet discussions of Asia seem fixated on economic indicators—gross national product, per capita income, share of global trade. ...

By Bill James Fools Rush Inn: More Detours on the Way to Conventional Wisdom

Opium to Java: Revenue Farming and Chinese Enterprise in Colonial Indonesia, 1860-1910

Opium smoking was a widespread social custom in nineteenth-century Java, and commercial trade in opium had far-reaching economic and political implications. As in many of the Dutch territories in the Indonesian archipelago, the drug was imported from elsewhere and sold throughout the island under a ...

The Ingenious Beilbys

Time Frames

The Last Tree: Reclaiming the Environment in Tropical Asia

The Collected Works of James Rush

Asia in Western Fiction

Guide to Information Science

Guide to Information Science

Information Retrieval and Documentation in Chemistry

James R. Rush

James Robert Rush is an American historian, writer, editor, researcher, essayist, consultant and professor. Rush studied modern Southeast Asian history at Yale...