TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zaide,Gregorio F.
AU  - Zaide,Sonia M.
TI  - History of Asian Nations
SN  - 9710841858
U1  - 950 
PY  - 1988///]
CY  - Manila
PB  - National Book Store
KW  - Asian
KW  - History
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Introduction to asian history; Physical environment; Social environment; Prologue to asian history; East asia; China, red dragon of the east; Taiwan, island-baston of the nationalist china; Korea, land of the broken calm; Japan, industrial giant of asia; Southeast asia; The philippines, unique nation with four cultural heritages; Indonesia, world's largest archipelago; Malaysia, a malayan federation; Singapore, an island-city republic; Brunei, the youngest nation; Thailand , land of the free; Burma, land of the golden pagodas; Vietnam, where wars never ends; Cambodia, now kampuchea; Laos, kingdom of the million elephant; Southasia; India, world's largest democracy; Pakistan, halfway to the middle east; Bangladesh, bengali nation; Sri lanka, isle of sorrow; Mini-states of south asia; Nepal,only hindu kingdom; Bhutan, land of the thunder dragons; Maldives, smallest nation in south asia; North asia; Afghanistan, crossroads of conquerors; Mongolia, land of genghis khan; Soviet asia, colossus of the east; Siberia, land of ice and tears; Soviet central asia, a muslim tinderbox; Middle east or western asia; Iran, middle eastern catastrophe; Iraq, formerly mesopotamia; Syria, land of saladin; Lebanon, Divided by a civil war; Turkey, republic of the two continents; Jordan, desert arab kingdom; Israel, birthplace of christ and homeland of the jews; Saudi arabia, cradle of islam; Kuwait, world's richest people; The oil-rich gulf states; Oman, land of Frankincense and myrrh; United arab emerates; Qatar, World's largest gas reserves; Bahrain, gulf archipelago; The two yemens-land of sheba; Asia in world affairs
ER  -