Southeast category: 2400 books
Reformasi
The Struggle for power in post-Soeharto Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
In July 1996, President Soeharto crossed a point of no return. Small but vocal student groups were staging daily demonstrations to demand 'reformasi' - Indonesia's byword for democratic reform. Disturbed by the unprecedented show of dissent, Soeharto cracked down. But by demonstrating that he would...
Refracted Visions
Popular Photography and National Modernity in Java
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
A young couple poses before a painted backdrop depicting a modern building set in a volcanic landscape; a college student grabs his camera as he heads to a political demonstration; a man poses stiffly for his identity photograph; amateur photographers look for picturesque images in a rural village;...
Death of a Generation:How the Assassinations of Diem and JFK Prolonged the Vietnam War
How the Assassinations of Diem and JFK Prolonged the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2003
When John F. Kennedy was shot, millions were left to wonder how America, and the world, would have been different had he lived to fulfill the enormous promise of his presidency. For many historians and political observers, what Kennedy would and would not have done in Vietnam has been a source of...
Race and the Education of Desire
Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 1995
Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality has been one of the most influential books of the last two decades. It has had an enormous impact on cultural studies and work across many disciplines on gender, sexuality, and the body. Bringing a new set of questions to this key work, Ann Laura Stoler examines...
by Bertil Lintner
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
In 1988 Burma (now Myanmar) exploded. People rose up against their government in a massive and nationwide expression of outrage at the regime's ruinous economic policies and repressive politics. The protests were suppressed by violence on a scale even more brutal than the Chinese suppression of the...
Archaeology of East Asia
The Rise of Civilization in China, Korea and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
Archaeology of East Asia constitutes an introduction to social and political development from the Palaeolithic to 8th-century early historic times. It takes a regional view across China, Korea, Japan and their peripheries that is unbounded by modern state lines. This viewpoint emphasizes how the region...
Hating Empire Properly
The Two Indies and the Limits of Enlightenment Anticolonialism
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
In Hating Empire Properly, Sunil Agnani produces a novel attempt to think the eighteenth-century imagination of
the West and East Indies together, arguing that this is how contemporary thinkers Edmund Burke and Denis
Diderot actually viewed them. This concern with multiple geographical spaces is revealed...
Borobudur
Golden Tales of the Buddhas
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
With vivid photography and insightful commentary, this travel pictorial shines a light on the Buddhist art and architecture of Borobudur.
The glorious ninth–century Buddhist stupa of Borobudur—the largest Buddhist monument in the world—stands in the midst of the lush Kedu Plain of Central...
by John Miksic
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
With vivid photography and insightful commentary, this travel pictorial shines a light on the Buddhist art and architecture of Borobudur.
The glorious ninth–century Buddhist stupa of Borobudur—the largest Buddhist monument in the world—stands in the midst of the lush Kedu Plain of Central...
No Bad News for the King
The True Story of Cyclone Nargis and Its Aftermath in Burma
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
An incisive, unprecedented report on life inside Burma from the author of Finding George Orwell in Burma
On May 2, 2008, an enormous tropical cyclone made landfall in Burma, wreaking untold havoc and killing more than 138,000 people. In No Bad News for the King, Emma Larkin, a Westerner who...
On a Short Leash
Detained in Burma
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
On March 24, 2011 Ron Zakreski was detained by the Burmese army fifty meters from the border of Thailand. He was held at Kheenyalee command center by Light Infantry Battalion 356 when it came under fire from the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army. Transported through conflict areas to Myawaddi he was...
by Y.M.V. Han
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Spanning the colonial, independence, and dictatorship periods in Burma (Myanmar), A Burmese Heart is a gripping personal account of one woman and her family who lived through the making and unmaking of their country’s turbulent history. Tinsa Maw-Naing is born into privilege as the daughter of a...
by Stephen Leather
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Crimes are rare in Singapore, but when there's a crime that has the police baffled, it is Inspector Zhang that they turn to. From locked-room mysteries to murders disguised as suicide, Inspector Zhang is able to draw on his experience as a detective along with tricks he has learned from Sir Arthur...
by Shannon Slater
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Phuket, Thailand - one of the most famous tourist destinations in Asia.
Phuket is Thailand's largest island. It is 48 km in length, 21 km at its widest, and is in Southern Thailand, on the west-facing Andaman Sea coastline, suspended from the...