Southeast Asia category: 1948 books
In the Time of Madness
Indonesia on the Edge of Chaos
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
From the acclaimed author of People Who Eat Darkness comes this “deeply felt” account of Indonesia at the crossroads of freedom and terror (Time, Asia).
In the last years of the twentieth century, foreign correspondent Richard Lloyd Parry found himself in the vast island nation of Indonesia,...
by Hugh Clifford
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
19 fascinating tales and sketches from the time in the early 20th century when Malaysia was a protectorate of the British Empire, written by the British Resident and later Governor Hugh Clifford.
Sir Hugh Charles Clifford, GCMG, GBE (5 March 1866 – 18 December 1941) was a British colonial...
by Adrian Vickers
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Since the Bali bombings of 2002 and the rise of political Islam, Indonesia has frequently occupied media headlines. Nevertheless, the history of the fourth largest country on earth remains relatively unknown. Adrian Vickers' book, first published in 2005, traces the history of an island country, comprising...
by Professor M.C. Ricklefs
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2008
Recognised as the most authoritative general account of Indonesia, this revised and expanded fourth edition has been updated in the light of new scholarship. New chapters at the end of the book bring the story up to the present day, including discussion of recent events such as the 2002 Bali terrorist bombings and the 2004 tsunami.
Education-at-Large
Student Life and Activities in Singapore 19451965
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
The first part of the book contains documentation of a groundbreaking exhibition held in 2007 on student activities and societal engagements during post-war Singapore 1945–1965 and transcripts of forums held in conjunction with it. The second half centres on oral history accounts of mostly former...
MacArthur's Spies
The Soldier, the Singer, and the Spymaster Who Defied the Japanese in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
**"MacArthur's Spies reads like Casablanca set in the Pacific, filled with brave and daring characters caught up in the intrigue of war—and the best part is that it's all true!" —Tom Maier, author of Masters of Sex
A thrilling story of espionage, daring and deception set in...
Demokrasi
Indonesia in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Indonesia, a nation of thousands of islands and almost 250 million people, straddles the junction of the Pacific and Indian oceans. Current President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has presided over 6 per cent average yearly growth of its economy, to surpass $1 trillion. If this rate continues, Indonesia...
Within Changi's Walls
A record of civilian internment in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
When the Japanese captured Singapore in February 1942, the European population was rounded up and sent to internment camps, where they were kept till the end of the war. This is the story of one such internee George L. Peet whose diaries and records preserve a stunningly vivid portrait of the triumph...
A Colonial Economy in Crisis
Burma's Rice Cultivators and the World Depression of the 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2005
The book challenges the orthodox argument that rural populations which abandoned self-sufficiency to become single commodity producers, and were supposedly very vulnerable to the commodity price collapse of the 1930s Depression, did not suffer as much as has been supposed. It shows how the effects...
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...
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
Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects
British Malaya, 1786–1941
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects examines the stories of ordinary people to explore the internal workings of colonial rule. Chinese, Indians, and Malays learned about being British through the plantations, towns, schools, and newspapers of a modernizing colony. Yet they got mixed messages from...
The Second World War (1)
The Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
The war in the Pacific began with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 and ended with the atomic bombs on Hirsoshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, which led to the surrender in Tokyo Bay on 2 September 1945. It was a war of great naval battles, such as those in the Coral Sea, at Midway,...
A Short History of Cambodia: From empire to survival
From empire to survival
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
New in the Short History of Asia series edited by Milton Osborne this is a concise and readable history of Cambodia from its rich and powerful past through the era of French protection the Vietnamese conflict the Pol Pot regime and to its present day incarnation as a constitutional monarchy and popular...