Southeast Asia category: 1948 books
The Indonesian Presidency
The Shift from Personal toward Constitutional Rule
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2005
This pioneering study of the Indonesian presidency significantly redefines our understanding of Indonesian politics from independence to the present. Angus McIntyre blends political biography with constitutional history to locate Indonesian leaders within both Indonesian cultural frameworks and the...
Four Decades On
Vietnam, the United States, and the Legacies of the Second Indochina War
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
In Four Decades On, historians, anthropologists, and literary critics examine the legacies of the Second Indochina War, or what most Americans call the Vietnam War, nearly forty years after the United States finally left Vietnam. They address matters such as the daunting tasks facing the Vietnamese...
Mixed Medicines
Health and Culture in French Colonial Cambodia
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
During the first half of the twentieth century, representatives of the French colonial health services actively strove to expand the practice of Western medicine in the frontier colony of Cambodia. But as the French physicians ventured beyond their colonial enclaves, they found themselves negotiating...
Frustrated Ambition
General Vicente Lim and the Philippine Military Experience, 1910–1944
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Vicente Podico Lim (1888–1944) was once his country’s best-known soldier. The first Filipino to graduate from West Point and a graduate of the U.S. Army War College, Lim figured in every significant military development in the Philippines during his thirty years in uniform. Frustrated Ambition...
by Chanrithy Him
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2001
Chanrithy Him felt compelled to tell of surviving life under the Khmer Rouge in a way "worthy of the suffering which I endured as a child."
In the Cambodian proverb, "when broken glass floats" is the time when evil triumphs over good. That time began in 1975, when the Khmer...
Colonial Pathologies
American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006
Colonial Pathologies is a groundbreaking history of the role of science and medicine in the American colonization of the Philippines from 1898 through the 1930s. Warwick Anderson describes how American colonizers sought to maintain their own health and stamina in a foreign environment while exerting...
Rebel Land
Unraveling the Riddle of History in a Turkish Town
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
An esteemed journalist travels to Turkey to investigate the legacy of the Armenian genocide and the quest for Kurdish statehood.
In 2001, Christopher de Bellaigue, then the Economist's correspondent in Istanbul, wrote a piece about the history of Turkey for The New York Review of Books. In...
The River of Lost Footsteps
Histories of Burma
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
For nearly two decades Western governments and a growing activist community have been frustrated in their attempts to bring about a freer and more democratic Burma—through sanctions and tourist boycotts—only to see an apparent slide toward even harsher dictatorship. But what do we really know...
Ho Chi Minh
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
To grasp the complicated causes and consequences of the Vietnam War, one must understand the extraordinary life of Ho Chi Minh, the man generally recognized as the father of modern Vietnam. Duiker provides startling insights into Ho's true motivation, as well as into the Soviet and Chinese roles in the Vietnam War.
Nothing Ever Dies
Vietnam and the Memory of War
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Nothing Ever Dies, Viet Thanh Nguyen writes. All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. From the author of the bestselling novel The Sympathizer comes a searching exploration of a conflict that lives on in the collective memory of both the Americans and the Vietnamese.
Massacre in Malaya
Exposing Britain's My Lai
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The first book to draw upon new files from the British National Archives, it also features interviews with veterans from both sides of the conflict to expose the truth behind the Batang Kali massacreThe Malayan Emergency (1948-1960) was the longest war fought by British and Commonwealth forces in...
Operation Matador
World War II—Britain’s Attempt to Foil the Japanese Invasion of Malaya and Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
When Singapore fell to the Japanese in February 1942, Churchill called it the “largest capitulation in British history.” Till today, the myth persists that this was due to the British forces’ being caught off-guard, with their guns facing the wrong direction—towards the sea. This book offers...
by Henry Albinson
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2016
Finding out information about Laos is essential, Laos history book, will also provide you about Laos culture and art, Laos early and recent civilization, Laos government and system, Laos tourism,The original inhabitants of Laos were Austroasiatic peoples, who lived by hunting and gathering before...
by Professor Michael W. Charney
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
Burma has lived under military rule for nearly half a century. The results of its 1990 elections were never recognized by the ruling junta and Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of Burma's pro-democracy movement, was denied her victory. She has been under house-arrest ever since. Now an economic satellite and...