Amazons of the Huk Rebellion

Vina a Lanzona

• Paperback | Engels | New Perspectives in Se Asian Studies
• Labeled "Amazons" by the national press, women played a central role in the Huk rebellion, one of the most significant peasant-based revolutions in mo... Lees meer

Philippine Sanctuary

Bonnie M Harris

• Hardcover | Engels | New Perspectives in Se Asian Studies
• During World War II, the United States government and many Western democracies limited or closed themselves off entirely to Jewish refugees. By contra... Lees meer

Dead in the Water

• Hardcover | Engels | New Perspectives in Se Asian Studies
• For decades, large dam projects have been undertaken by both nations and international agencies with the aim of doing good: preventing floods, bringin... Lees meer

Vietnam's Strategic Thinking during the Third Indochina War

Kosal Path

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• When costly efforts to cement a strategic partnership with the Soviet Union failed, the combined political pressure of economic crisis at home and imm... Lees meer

Dreams of the Hmong Kingdom

Mai Na M Lee

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• Countering notions that Hmong history begins and ends with the "Secret War" in Laos of the 1960s and 1970s, Dreams of the Hmong Kingdom reveals how th... Lees meer

Of Beggars and Buddhas

Katherine a Bowie

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• The 547 Buddhist jatakas , or verse parables, recount the Buddha's lives in previous incarnations. In his penultimate and most famous incarnation, he ... Lees meer

Feeding Manila in Peace and War, 1850-1945

Daniel F Doeppers

• Hardcover | Engels | New Perspectives in Se Asian Studies
• Policymakers and scholars have come to realize that getting food, water, and services to the millions who live in the world's few dozen megacities is ... Lees meer

An Anarchy of Families

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• Winner of the Philippine National Book Award, this pioneering volume reveals how the power of the country's family-based oligarchy both derives from a... Lees meer

The Social World of Batavia

Jean Gelman Taylor

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• In the seventeenth century, the Dutch established a trading base at the Indonesian site of Jacarta. What began as a minor colonial outpost under the n... Lees meer

Everyday Economic Survival in Myanmar

Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung

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• Reforms in Myanmar (formerly Burma) have eased restrictions on citizens' political activities. Yet for most Burmese, Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung shows, e... Lees meer

Of Beggars and Buddhas

Katherine a Bowie

• Hardcover | Engels | New Perspectives in Se Asian Studies
• The 547 Buddhist jatakas , or verse parables, recount the Buddha's lives in previous incarnations. In his penultimate and most famous incarnation, he ... Lees meer

Royal Capitalism

Puangchon Unchanam

• Paperback | Engels | New Perspectives in Se Asian Studies
• Thanks to its active role in national politics, the market economy, and popular culture, the Thai crown remains both the country's dominant institutio... Lees meer

From Rebellion to Riots

Jamie S Davidson

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• From Rebellion to Riots is a critical analysis of the roots of contemporary violence in one of Indonesia's most ethnically heterogeneous provinces, We... Lees meer

The Hispanization of the Philippines

John Leddy Phelan

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• After conquest of the Philippine archipelago in the late sixteenth century, Spanish colonizers launched a sweeping social program designed to bring ab... Lees meer

Viet Nam

Phan Huy Le, Insun Yu, Sun Laichen, Li Tana, Charles Wheeler, Wynn Wilcox, George Dutton, Kim Loan Hill

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• Women, Autobiography, Theory is the first comprehensive guide to the burgeoning field of women s autobiography, drawing into one volume the most signi... Lees meer

A Reckoning

Sharon W Chamberlain

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• After World War II, thousands of Japanese throughout Asia were put on trial for war crimes. Examination of postwar trials is now a thriving area of re... Lees meer

Thailandas Political Peasants

Andrew Walker

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• When a populist movement elected Thaksin Shinawatra as prime minister of Thailand in 2001, many of the country's urban elite dismissed the outcome as ... Lees meer

Repossessing Shanland

Jane M Ferguson

• Hardcover | Engels | New Perspectives in Se Asian Studies
• Around five million people across Southeast Asia identify as Shan. Though the Shan people were promised an independent state in the 1947 Union of Burm... Lees meer

In Plain Sight

Tyrell Haberkorn

• Hardcover | Engels | New Perspectives in Se Asian Studies
• Following a 1932 coup d'état in Thailand that ended absolute monarchy and established a constitution, the Thai state that emerged has suppressed polit... Lees meer

Voices from the Plain of Jars

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• During the Vietnam War the United States government waged a massive, secret air war in neighboring Laos. Two million tons of bombs were dropped on one... Lees meer

Policing Americaas Empire

Alfred W McCoy

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• At the dawn of the twentieth century, the U.S. Army swiftly occupied Manila and then plunged into a decade-long pacification campaign with striking pa... Lees meer

The Government of Mistrust

Ken MacLean

• Paperback | Engels | New Perspectives in Se Asian Studies
• Focusing on the creation and misuse of government documents in Vietnam since the 1920s, The Government of Mistrust reveals how profoundly the dynamics... Lees meer

Hamka's Great Story

James R Rush

• Hardcover | Engels | New Perspectives in Se Asian Studies
• Hamka's Great Story presents Indonesia through the eyes of an impassioned, popular thinker who believed that Indonesians and Muslims everywhere should... Lees meer

Pretext for Mass Murder

John Roosa

• Paperback | Engels | New Perspectives in Se Asian Studies
• In the early morning hours of October 1, 1965, a group calling itself the September 30th Movement kidnapped and executed six generals of the Indonesia... Lees meer