Southeast Asia category: 1948 books
Medicine and Imperialism II: A History of British Colonial Health Policy in the Malay Peninsula
3, #2
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2018
Volume II continues with an account of the foundation of the British colonial health policy in the Malay Peninsula (later British Malaya). It covers the period of the British colonial rule in the Peninsula between the mid-eighteenth and the early twentieth century. During the period, the development...
Activist Archives
Youth Culture and the Political Past in Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
In Activist Archives Doreen Lee tells the origins, experiences, and legacy of the radical Indonesian student movement that helped end the thirty-two-year dictatorship in May 1998. Lee situates the revolt as the most recent manifestation of student activists claiming a political and historical inheritance...
When Violence Works
Postconflict Violence and Peace in Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Why are some places successful in moving from war to consolidated peace while others continue to be troubled by violence? And why does postconflict violence take different forms and have different intensities? By developing a new theory of postconflict violence Patrick Barron's When Violence Works...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2018
This important December 2017 report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
Myanmar's central government has wrestled with ethnically linked violence and separatism since its independence in 1948. Bilateral ceasefire efforts in the late 1980s...
A Gift of Barbed Wire
America's Allies Abandoned in South Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
A Gift of Barbed Wire is a penetrating look at the lives of South Vietnamese officials and their families left behind in Vietnam after the fall of Saigon in 1975. A former Marine who served in Vietnam, Robert McKelvey went on to practice psychiatry and, through his work in refugee camps and U.S. social...
Cambodge
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Plaine et hautes terres, lacs, fleuves et forêts, la nature impose au Cambodge cette distinction. Et le mythe accuse cette division entre le Cambodge de l'eau et le Cambodge des montagnes....
Postcolonial Vietnam
New Histories of the National Past
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2002
New nations require new histories of their struggles for nationhood. Postcolonial Vietnam takes us back to the 1950s to see how official Vietnamese historians and others rethought what counted as history, what producing history entailed, and who should be included as participants and agents in the...
La guerre du Viêt Nam
Un conflit meurtrier au cœur de la guerre froide
Language: French
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur la guerre du Viêt Nam en moins d'une heure !À la fin de la guerre d'Indochine, en 1954, le Viêt Nam voit son territoire divisé entre le Nord communiste et le Sud nationaliste. Cette désunion mal acceptée par chacune des parties engendre un nouveau...
Essays of Lim Boon Keng on Confucianism
(With Chinese Translations)
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
This book introduces and promotes Dr Lim Boon Keng's thoughts on Confucianism. Dr Lim is an outstanding thinker and an authority on Confucian history of Singapore. His thoughts on Confucianism represent the fusion of Confucianism and Christianity, which is unique in the history of Confucianism.
This...
Gods, Heroes, and Ancestors
An Interreligious Encounter in Eighteenth-Century Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Though a minority religion in Vietnam, Christianity has been a significant presence in the country since its arrival in the sixteenth-century. Anh Q. Tran offers the first English translation of the recently discovered 1752 manuscript Tam Giáo Chu Vong (The Errors of the Three Religions). Structured...
「帝國」在臺灣：殖民地臺灣的時空、知識與情感
The Empires on Taiwan : Time, Space, Knowledge, and Sentiment of Colonial Taiwan
Language: Chinese
Release Date: December 18, 2015
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by Evra Ntakpe
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Cocos (Keeling) Islands Settlement and History. Environmental Study, this Book has the entire information on Cocos Islans. The Territory of the Cocos is also called the Coco Islands or the Keeling Islands, and forms part of the nation of Australia’s territory. The territory is located in the Indian...
Food, Foodways and Foodscapes
Culture, Community and Consumption in Post-Colonial Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
This fascinating and insightful volume introduces readers to food as a window to the social and cultural history and geography of Singapore. It demonstrates how the food we consume, the ways in which we acquire and prepare it, the company we keep as we cook and eat, and our preferences and practices...
The United States and Cambodia, 1969-2000
A Troubled Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Beginning with the restoration of diplomatic relations between the US and Cambodia in 1969, this book is the first to systematically explore the controversial issues and events surrounding the relationship between the two countries in the latter half of the 20th century. It traces how the secret bombing...