Southeast Asia category: 1948 books
Philippines
Géographie, économie, histoire et politique
Language: French
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Situées dans l'océan Pacifique au sud-ouest de la Chine, les Philippines, constituées de 7 000 îles et îlots, forment un archipel montagneux et volcanique au climat chaud et humide d’une superficie de 300 000 kilomètres carrés, peuplé de 92,3 millions d'habitants au recensement de 2010 …
Laos
Géographie, économie, histoire et politique
Language: French
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Le Laos, ou « pays du Million d'éléphants », est situé au cur de l'Asie du Sud-Est continentale. Nul territoire dans cette région n'a mieux mérité le nom d'Indochine puisqu'il est situé à la charnière géographique des deux plus vieilles cultures de l'Asie. Terre de carrefour et en même temps terre isolée, le Laos a toujours été une terre contestée...
Birmanie
Géographie, économie, histoire et politique
Language: French
Release Date: October 28, 2015
La Birmanie (renommée Myanmar en 1989) est l'un des grands carrefours de l'Asie. Aux confins de l'Inde et de la Chine, elle est le reflet des influences multiples qu'elle tire de sa position géographique....
Thaïlande
Géographie, économie, histoire et politique
Language: French
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Partie centrale de la péninsule indochinoise avec un long appendice dans la presqu'île de Malacca, la Thaïlande n'a justifié son appellation moderne de pays des Thais (Thai) qu'à une date relativement récente. C'est en effet au XIIIe siècle que, allant du nord vers le sud au long des fleuves et sous la pression des Mongols...
Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia and Political Islam
Identity, Ideology and Religio-Political Mobilization
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
This book offers a timely examination of Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI), a chapter of the transnational movement Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT), whose key aim is the revival of the caliphate.
It cautions against an overly simplistic read of a group like HTI and political Islam in Indonesia. While there...
Svay
A Khmer Village in Cambodia
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
May Mayko Ebihara (1934–2005) was the first American anthropologist to conduct ethnographic research in Cambodia. Svay provides a remarkably detailed picture of individual villagers and of Khmer social structure and kinship, agriculture, politics, and religion. The world Ebihara described would...
Educating Monks
Minority Buddhism on China’s Southwest Border
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Most studies of Buddhist communities tend to be limited to villages, individual temple communities, or a single national community. Buddhist monastics, however, cross a number of these different framings: They are part of local communities, are governed through national legal frameworks, and participate...
The Golden Triangle
Inside Southeast Asia's Drug Trade
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
The Golden Triangle region that joins Burma, Thailand, and Laos is one of the global centers of opiate and methamphetamine production. Opportunistic Chinese businessmen and leaders of various armed groups are largely responsible for the manufacture of these drugs. The region is defined by the apparently...
Sovereign Women in a Muslim Kingdom
The Sultanahs of Aceh, 1641-1699
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
The Islamic kingdom of Aceh was ruled by queens for half of the 17th century. Was female rule an aberration? Unnatural? A violation of nature, comparable to hens instead of roosters crowing at dawn? Indigenous texts and European sources offer different evaluations. Drawing on both sets of sources,...
The Memory of Trade
Modernity’s Entanglements on an Eastern Indonesian Island
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2000
The Memory of Trade is an ethnographic study of the people of Aru, an archipelago in eastern Indonesia. Central to Patricia Spyer’s study is the fraught identification of Aruese people with two imaginary elsewheres—the ‘Aru’ and the ‘Malay’—and the fissured construction of community...
The South Asia Story
The First Sixty Years of US Relations with India and Pakistan
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2010
This book deals with the complex and changing U.S. relations with India and Pakistan in the sixty years since World War II. It carries a series of brief sketches on how twelve U.S. presidents, starting with Franklin Roosevelt, perceived and dealt with South Asia. The author proposes that though there...
by Kaushik Roy, Sourish Saha
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
This volume traces the historical roots and evolution of insurgencies and counter-insurgencies in modern Asia. Focusing on armed rebellions and use of armed forces by both Western powers and indigenous states from the nineteenth century till present day, the volume unravels the problematic of change–continuity...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
This book uses empirical evidence from various case studies to examine the relationship between territorial and regional autonomy, the nation-state and ethnic conflict resolution in South and South-East Asia.
The concept of territorial or regional autonomy holds centre stage in the literature...
by James Heitzman
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2008
The macro-region of South Asia – including Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka – today supports one of the world’s greatest concentrations of cities, but as James Heitzman argues in the first comprehensive treatment of urban South Asia, this has been the case for at least 5,000...