Southeast category: 2400 books
The Indonesian Presidency
The Shift from Personal toward Constitutional Rule
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2005
This pioneering study of the Indonesian presidency significantly redefines our understanding of Indonesian politics from independence to the present. Angus McIntyre blends political biography with constitutional history to locate Indonesian leaders within both Indonesian cultural frameworks and the...
The Sikh Separatist Insurgency in India
Political Leadership and Ethnonationalist Movements
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
The "Punjab crisis," a two-decade long armed insurgency that emerged as a violent ethnonationalist movement in the 1980s and gradually transformed into a secessionist struggle, resulted in an estimated 25,000 casualties in Punjab. This ethnonationalist movement, on one hand, ended the perceived...
Four Decades On
Vietnam, the United States, and the Legacies of the Second Indochina War
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
In Four Decades On, historians, anthropologists, and literary critics examine the legacies of the Second Indochina War, or what most Americans call the Vietnam War, nearly forty years after the United States finally left Vietnam. They address matters such as the daunting tasks facing the Vietnamese...
by Frans Welman
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Over a decade of Ceasefire and Peace Talks between India and Nagalim; Peace Negotiations in Practice - The Indo-Naga experience
Mixed Medicines
Health and Culture in French Colonial Cambodia
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
During the first half of the twentieth century, representatives of the French colonial health services actively strove to expand the practice of Western medicine in the frontier colony of Cambodia. But as the French physicians ventured beyond their colonial enclaves, they found themselves negotiating...
Frustrated Ambition
General Vicente Lim and the Philippine Military Experience, 1910–1944
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Vicente Podico Lim (1888–1944) was once his country’s best-known soldier. The first Filipino to graduate from West Point and a graduate of the U.S. Army War College, Lim figured in every significant military development in the Philippines during his thirty years in uniform. Frustrated Ambition...
by Chanrithy Him
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2001
Chanrithy Him felt compelled to tell of surviving life under the Khmer Rouge in a way "worthy of the suffering which I endured as a child."
In the Cambodian proverb, "when broken glass floats" is the time when evil triumphs over good. That time began in 1975, when the Khmer...
Colonial Pathologies
American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006
Colonial Pathologies is a groundbreaking history of the role of science and medicine in the American colonization of the Philippines from 1898 through the 1930s. Warwick Anderson describes how American colonizers sought to maintain their own health and stamina in a foreign environment while exerting...
Rebel Land
Unraveling the Riddle of History in a Turkish Town
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
An esteemed journalist travels to Turkey to investigate the legacy of the Armenian genocide and the quest for Kurdish statehood.
In 2001, Christopher de Bellaigue, then the Economist's correspondent in Istanbul, wrote a piece about the history of Turkey for The New York Review of Books. In...
The River of Lost Footsteps
Histories of Burma
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
For nearly two decades Western governments and a growing activist community have been frustrated in their attempts to bring about a freer and more democratic Burma—through sanctions and tourist boycotts—only to see an apparent slide toward even harsher dictatorship. But what do we really know...
Ho Chi Minh
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
To grasp the complicated causes and consequences of the Vietnam War, one must understand the extraordinary life of Ho Chi Minh, the man generally recognized as the father of modern Vietnam. Duiker provides startling insights into Ho's true motivation, as well as into the Soviet and Chinese roles in the Vietnam War.
You'll Die in Singapore
The True Account of One of the Most Amazing POW Escapes in WWII
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Weakened by hunger, thirst and ill-treatment, author Charles McCormac, then a World War Two prisoner-of-war in Japanese-occupied Singapore, knew that if he did not escape he would die. With sixteen others he broke out of Pasir Panjang camp and began an epic two-thousand-mile escape from the island...
My Thai Girl and I: How I found a new life in Thailand
How I found a new life in Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
This is about how Andrew Hicks met Cat, a ‘Thai girl’ half his age and how they set up home together in her village out in the rice fields of North Eastern Thailand. He'll tell you of toads in the toilet, of ants' eggs for breakfast, how they took up frog farming and how he got married without really...
Late Blossom
A true story of life, loss and love in war-torn Viet Nam
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The tragic irony of America's military adventure in Viet Nam lies in the fact that the two countires were fighting different wars. The Americans were fighting to sever the head of a communist monster they saw as intent on world domination and enslavement to the State. The Vietnamese, in contrast, were...