Southeast Asia category: 1948 books
The Lotus Unleashed
The Buddhist Peace Movement in South Vietnam, 1964-1966
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
During the Vietnam War, Vietnamese Buddhist peace activists made extraordinary sacrifices -- including self-immolation -- to try to end the fighting. They hoped to establish a neutralist government that would broker peace with the Communists and expel the Americans. Robert J. Topmiller explores South...
War and Shadows
The Haunting of Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
Vietnamese culture and religious traditions place the utmost importance on dying well: in old age, body unblemished, with surviving children, and properly buried and mourned. More than five million people were killed in the Vietnam War, many of them young, many of them dying far from home. Another...
Reorganising Power in Indonesia
The Politics of Oligarchy in an Age of Markets
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Reorganising Power in Indonesia is a new and distinctive analysis of the dramatic fall of Soeharto, the last of the great Cold War capitalist dictators, and of the struggles that reshape power and wealth in Indonesia. The dramatic events of the past two decades are understood essentially in terms...
Merchants, Bankers, Governors
British Enterprise in Singapore and Malaya, 17861920
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
This is the story of British enterprise in Singapore and Malaya from 1786 to 1920, when British vision, zeal and drive developed Penang, then Singapore and, finally, the peninsular Malay States.
In the initial years, commerce and finance were paramount. The seeds of these commercial activities...
by Hairudin Harun
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2017
This book is a historical account of the British colonial medical establishment, health policy and medical science research in the Malay Peninsula (currently West Malaysia). The account here, in three volumes, is based on a study of primary and secondary historical colonial sources found in the U.K....
The End of the First Indochina War
A Global History
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
The French withdrawal from Vietnam in 1954 was the product of global pressures and triggered significant global consequences. By treating the war as an international issue, this book places Indochina at the center of the Cold War in the mid-1950s. Arguing that the Indochina War cannot be understood...
Contesting Indochina
French Remembrance between Decolonization and Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
How does a nation come to terms with losing a war—especially an overseas war whose purpose is fervently contested? In the years after the war, how does such a nation construct and reconstruct its identity and values? For the French in Indochina, the stunning defeat at Dien Bien Phu ushered in the...
War, Violence, and Population
Making the Body Count
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
Grounded in theory and research, this book offers a spatial perspective on how and why populations are regulated and disciplined by mass violence—and why these questions matter for scholars concerned about social justice. James Tyner focuses on how states and other actors use acts of brutality to...
Economists with Guns
Authoritarian Development and U.S.-Indonesian Relations, 1960-1968
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2008
Offering the first comprehensive history of U.S relations with Indonesia during the 1960s, Economists with Guns explores one of the central dynamics of international politics during the Cold War: the emergence and U.S. embrace of authoritarian regimes pledged to programs of military-led development....
by David T. Hill, Krishna Sen
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2005
The Internet in Indonesia’s New Democracy is a detailed study of legal, economic, political and cultural practices surrounding the provision and consumption of the Internet in Indonesia at the turn of the twenty-first century. Hill and Sen detail the emergence of the Internet into Indonesia in the...
Indonesia Today
Challenges of History
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2001
If history can offer a guide to the future, the turn of the century and the crossroads of reformasi presents a timely juncture for examining Indonesia's political, economic, and social history—both to evaluate current events and to chart the country's course. Indonesia Today provides an up-to-date...
Mon Nationalism and Civil War in Burma
The Golden Sheldrake
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
A major contribution to the literature of Burmese history and politics, this book traces the rich and tragic history of the Mon people of Burma and Thailand, from the pre-colonial era to the present day. This vivid account of ethnic politics and civil war situates the story of Mon nationalism within...
Forests Are Gold
Trees, People, and Environmental Rule in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Forests Are Gold examines the management of Vietnam's forests in the tumultuous twentieth century�from French colonialism to the recent transition to market-oriented economics�as the country united, prospered, and transformed people and landscapes. Forest policy has rarely been about ecology or...
The United States and Cambodia, 1870-1969
From Curiosity to Confrontation
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Spanning from the first US contacts with Cambodia in the 19th century up until the late 1960s and the outbreak of war with Vietnam, this book is the first to systematically explore American relations with Cambodia. A discussion of adventurers, tourists and missionaries initially sets the scene for...