Southeast Asia category: 1948 books
by Frances FitzGerald
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2009
Frances FitzGerald's landmark history of Vietnam and the Vietnam War, "A compassionate and penetrating account of the collision of two societies that remain untranslatable to one another." (New York Times Book Review)
This magisterial work, based on Frances FitzGerald's many years...
Ending the Vietnam War
The Vietnamese Communists' Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2005
Existing studies of the Vietnam War have been written mostly from an American perspective, using western sources, and viewing the conflict through western eyes. This book, based on extensive original research, including Vietnamese, Chinese and former Soviet sources, tells the story of the war from...
Pol Pot
Anatomy of a Nightmare
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
A gripping and definitive portrait of the man who headed one of the most enigmatic and terrifying regimes of modern times
In the three and a half years of Pol Pot's rule, more than a million Cambodians, a fifth of the country's population, were executed or died from hunger. An idealistic and...
by Pin Yathay
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
On April 17, 1975, the Khmer Rouge entered Phnom Penh to open a new and appalling chapter in the story of the twentieth century. On that day, Pin Yathay was a qualified engineer in the Ministry of Public Works. Successful and highly educated, he had been critical of the corrupt Lon Nol regime and...
Land's End
Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Drawing on two decades of ethnographic research in Sulawesi, Indonesia, Tania Murray Li offers an intimate account of the emergence of capitalist relations among indigenous highlanders who privatized their common land to plant a boom crop, cacao. Spurred by the hope of ending their poverty and isolation,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
These two unique guides produced by the Department of Defense provide comprehensive information about all aspects of life in Cambodia, with a special emphasis on geography, history, the economy, society, security and military matters, religion, traditions, urban and rural life, ethnic groups, crime,...
Chinese Education in Singapore
An untold story of conflict and change
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Life as a coolie … sucked.
Strife (the Chinese word tattooed on the wrist of the raised fist) epitomized the struggle of a coolie to make his life better.
The story of the conflict in Singapore’s Chinese community was always told from the viewpoint of the British colonizers. A...
Contracting Colonialism
Translation and Christian Conversion in Tagalog Society Under Early Spanish Rule
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 1992
In an innovative mix of history, anthropology, and post-colonial theory, Vicente L. Rafael examines the role of language in the religious conversion of the Tagalogs to Catholicism and their subsequent colonization during the early period (1580–1705) of Spanish rule in the Philippines. By tracing...
The United Nations and the Indonesian Takeover of West Papua, 1962-1969
The Anatomy of Betrayal
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2003
This book examines the role of the international community in the handover of the Dutch colony of West Papua/Irian Jaya to Indonesia in the 1960s and questions whether or not the West Papuan people ever genuinely exercised the right to self-determination guaranteed to them in the UN-brokered Dutch/Indonesian...
The Second Homeland
Polish Refugees in India
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
The Second World War presents the backdrop for this riveting account of displacement, migration and resettlement. Once the Soviet forces marched into Poland, thousands of Polish citizens were deported to slave-labour camps in the USSR. As news of their inhuman condition and ordeal spread, Jam Saheb...
The Kings of Ayutthaya
A Creative Retelling of Siamese History
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
Part fact, part fiction, part myth, and part legend, this book brings to life the kingdom of Ayutthaya from its roots in the kingdom of Sukhothai to its eventual destruction by the Burmese in the year 1767. It is the turbulent story of both the kings and their kingdom, from its birth to its downfall.
Robert...
The American Colonial State in the Philippines
Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2003
In 1898 the United States declared sovereignty over the Philippines, an archipelago of seven thousand islands inhabited by seven million people of various ethnicities. While it became a colonial power at the zenith of global imperialism, the United States nevertheless conceived of its rule as exceptional—an...
by Jonathan Copeland
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
I first went to Rangoon in 1981. It was called Rangoon then before the military government changed the name to Yangon in 1989. They also changed the name of the country to Myanmar, but most people preferred to use the old, poetic, evocative names, partly to make a political statement.I was immediately...
by James A. Tyner
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Between 1975 and 1979 the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia enacted a program of organized mass violence that resulted in the deaths of approximately one quarter of the country’s population. Over two million people died from torture, execution, disease and famine. From the commodification of the ‘killing...