Asia category: 8064 books
Blood, Dreams and Gold
The Changing Face of Burma
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Burma is one of the largest countries in Southeast Asia and was once one of its richest. Under successive military regimes, however, the country eventually ended up as one of the poorest countries in Asia, a byword for repression and ethnic violence. Richard Cockett spent years in the region as a correspondent...
by William John Stapleton
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
The unique enterprise A Sense Of Place Publishing has just released its newest publication, Bangkok Busted: You Die For Sure. This is a deeply personal story by author William John Stapleton on the fallout after he wrote a book about being robbed, lied to and deceived by one of the city's go-go boys...
by Duncan Stearn
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Southeast Asia just oozes exoticism, and has done for centuries. Why else did First World nations like Britain, the United States, France and others spend so much time and energy attempting to turn the region into a tropical version of their own backyard.
Nowadays, it attracts a huge number...
Understanding the City through its Margins
Pluridisciplinary Perspectives from Case Studies in Africa, Asia and the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Cities the world over and in particular developing countries suffer from uneven development and inequality. This is often coupled with the view that these inequalities constitute unfortunate anomalies. In contrast, this edited volume draws out the ways in which the city has not been able to exist...
Frontier Livelihoods
Hmong in the Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Do ethnic minorities have the power to alter the course of their fortune when living within a socialist state? In Frontier Livelihoods, the authors focus their study on the Hmong - known in China as the Miao - in the Sino-Vietnamese borderlands, contending that individuals and households create livelihoods...
The People between the Rivers
The Rise and Fall of a Bronze Drum Culture, 200–750 CE
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
This fundamental study provides the first comprehensive history in any language of the lands between the Red and Pearl Rivers in southern China and the people who resided there over a span of a thousand years. Bringing to life the mysterious early people known as Li and Lao who inhabited the area,...
by Peter Dickens
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016
From 1963 to 1966 Britain successfully waged a secret war to keep the Federation of Malaysia free from domination by Soekarno's Indonesia and by Chinese Communists. At the forefront of this campaign were the men of the Special Air Service – the SAS – an elite branch of the British military whose...
by Edgar Knobloch
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
A fully up-to-date exploration of the jewels of Central Asian archaeology, art, and architecture, incorporating all the very latest archaeological discoveriesThis comprehensive account of the culture and history of Central Asia describes the main centers of human civilization. Turkestan—the great...
In the Ruins of Empire
The Japanese Surrender and the Battle for Postwar Asia
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
The New York Times said of Ronald H. Spector’s classic account of the American struggle against the Japanese in World War II, “No future book on the Pacific War will be written without paying due tribute to Eagle Against the Sun.” Now Spector has returned with a book that is even more revealing....
RAND in Southeast Asia
A History of the Vietnam War Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010
This volume chronicles RAND's involvement in researching insurgency and counterinsurgency in Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand during the Vietnam War era and assesses the effect that this research had on U.S. officials and policies. Elliott draws on interviews with former RAND staff and the many studies...
by Bertil Lintner
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
One of Asia’s longest running communist insurrections ended on the night of April 16, 1989. Its cessation was not the outcome of a successful government offensive or of a generous amnesty policy, but of an all-out mutiny within the rank-and-file of the Communist Party of Burma (CPB). That night,...
Jungle Survival Manual 1944
Instructions on Warfare, Terrain, Endurance and the Dangers of the Tropics
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
During the Second World War, British and American soldiers were sent to new and challenging theatres, fighting to survive not only encounters with the enemy but the landscape they found themselves in. Being posted to South-East Asia and the Pacific to fight the Japanese meant soldiers had to learn...
by FLLC Travel Guides
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
For many of us, we might dream of going to a faraway place, different from what we might be used to. However, what about Thailand? It’s a country in Asia that many people travel to in Southeast Asia. Many do come in from the capital in Bangkok, but they do go around and check out the other islands....
Russia's Protectorates in Central Asia
Bukhara and Khiva, 1865-1924
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
This book examines the Russian conquest of the ancient Central Asian khanates of Bukhara and Khiva in the 1860s and 1870s, and the relationship between Russia and the territories until their extinction as political entities in 1924. It shows how Russia's approach developed from one of non-intervention,...