Southeast Asia category: 1948 books
Siege of the Spirits
Community and Polity in Bangkok
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
What happens when three hundred alleged squatters go head-to-head with an enormous city government looking to develop the place where they live? As anthropologist Michael Herzfeld shows in this book, the answer can be surprising. He tells the story of Pom Mahakan, a tiny enclave in the heart of old...
Laughing at Leviathan
Sovereignty and Audience in West Papua
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
For West Papua and its people, the promise of sovereignty has never been realized, despite a long and fraught struggle for independence from Indonesia. In Laughing at Leviathan, Danilyn Rutherford examines this struggle through a series of interlocking essays that drive at the core meaning of sovereignty...
Vietnam's Communist Revolution
The Power and Limits of Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
By tracing the evolving worldview of Vietnamese communists over 80 years as they led Vietnam through wars, social revolution, and peaceful development, this book shows the depth and resilience of their commitment to the communist utopia in their foreign policy. Unearthing new material from Vietnamese...
by James Eckardt
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2016
From boxers, business tycoons, bargirls and body-snatchers to street vendors, slum-dwellers, socialites and singers, Bangkok People takes the reader into the daily lives of city denizens, both Thai and expat, and from the filthy rich to the just plain filthy. Penned by one of Thailand's best-known...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Vietnam's economic liberalization since the adoption of the Doi Moi has helped Vietnam's economy blossom. As a result of its economic liberalization, Vietnam has become more dependent...
Crisis in the Pacific
The Battles for the Philippine Islands by the Men Who Fought Them
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2009
From the depths of defeat...
On December 8, 1941, one day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Air Force struck the Philippines in the first blow of a devastating invasion.
With an undersupplied patchwork army at his command, General Douglas MacArthur led a valiant defense...
Adrift
My Childhood in Colonial Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2016
In 1935, six-year-old Tzi Ki was taken away from his mother in Canton, by his grandmother, to live at Blair Road in Singapore.
This is the first part of David T. K. Wong’s multi-volume family memoir. It traces of his tumultuous growing-up years from his birth in Hong Kong, his early years...
Krakatoa
The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth's most dangerous volcano -- Krakatoa.
The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island...
Genocide and the Geographical Imagination
Life and Death in Germany, China, and Cambodia
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
This groundbreaking book brings an important spatial perspective to our understanding of genocide through a fresh interpretation of Germany under Hitler, Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, and China’s Great Leap Forward famine under Mao. James A. Tyner's powerful analysis of these horrifying cases...
Implacable Foes
War in the Pacific, 1944-1945
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
On May 8, 1945, Victory in Europe Day-shortened to "V.E. Day"-brought with it the demise of Nazi Germany. But for the Allies, the war was only half-won. Exhausted but exuberant American soldiers, ready to return home, were sent to join the fighting in the Pacific, which by the spring and...
Terraced Hell
A Japanese Memoir of Defeat & Death in Northern Luzon, Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 1992
This memoir from a Japanese civilian placed with the army in World War II offers a rare glimpse of the Japanese experience and psychology during this desperate time.
Near the end of World War II , when the Japanese military machine was crushed but still hanging on, thousands of Japanese soldiers...
by Expedito A. Ibarbia
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
An American woman plays a redeeming role amidst America's duplicity and betrayal of the Philippine struggle for independence during the revolution against Spain, which culminated in the Spanish-American and Philippine American wars. The fiction/nonfiction novel highlights the military and romantic...
Short Black 5 The Brave Ones
East Timor, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
As the convoy growled and squeaked to a halt in the dark, angry militiamen and soldiers began to shout and wave at the Australians, demanding they move aside. The Brave Ones' vanguard presented as a B-movie vision of some pirate biker gang from Hell, a rat bastard outfit in black tee-shirts, camouflage...