Southeast Asia category: 1948 books
by John Bastin, Julie Weizenegger
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
When Stamford Raffles married the “handsome, elegant” Sophia Hull in February 1817 and a year later welcomed the arrival of his first child, Charlotte, family life looked to be full of happiness. His earlier marriage, to Olivia Mariamne Devenish, a widow nearly ten years older than him, had ended...
Brève histoire du Cambodge
Le pays des Khmers rouges
Language: French
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Entre génocide et dictature, redécouvrez l**'histoire du Cambodge !**
Qui d’autre que François Ponchaud, auteur de l’inoubliable Cambdoge année zéro (paru en 1977), pouvait à ce point « résumer » la très riche histoire d’un des pays les plus attachants de l’Asie du Sud-Est,...
Saipan
The Beginning of the End
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2019
“The conquest of Saipan was, among Pacific operations up to that time, the most clear-cut decisive triumph of combined arms of the United States over the Japanese.”
C. B. Cates, General, U. S. Marine Corps
Victory at Saipan was the key which opened the door to the soft underbelly of the...
Het napalmmeisje
Haar leven van vuur naar vrede
Language: Dutch
Release Date: May 1, 2018
De foto waarop een meisje wanhopig wegrent voor de vlammen van napalmbommen is wereldberoemd. minder bekend is hoe het verder ging met de Vietnamese Kim Phuc. In dit aangrijpende boek vertelt ze het verhaal van haar jeugd, het heftige moment van de foto en haar lange weg naar genezing en vrede. Het...
La guerra de Vietnam
Un trágico conflicto fratricida en plena Guerra Fría
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 4, 2018
Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre la guerra de Vietnam, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá:
• Descubrir las causas que desembocan en la guerra de Vietnam, escenario de un cruel...
by Albert L. Chu
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
The life story of a celebrity may be entertaining or even newsworthy to many, but that of an ordinary man or woman offers a much closer parallel to that of most readers. This is such a story: the story of my life from birth to my “golden” years.I left my native southern China for Vietnam at the...
Hearing Allah’s Call
Preaching and Performance in Indonesian Islam
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Hearing Allah’s Call changes the way we think about Islamic communication. In the city of Bandung in Indonesia, sermons are not reserved for mosques and sites for Friday prayers. Muslim speakers are in demand for all kinds of events, from rites of passage to motivational speeches for companies and...
Rainforest Asylum
The Enduring Legacy of Colonial Psychiatric Care in Malaysia
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
The author argues that psychiatric services in Malaysia retain many of the premises of colonial psychiatry, while little influenced by more recent concepts such as service-user empowerment. Also present in Malaysian health services are features unique to this region (such as the continuing popularity of traditional healing practices) which are not congruent with the colonial premises.
Imagining Vietnam and America
The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919-1950
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
In this study of the encounter between Vietnam and the United States from 1919 to 1950, Mark Bradley fundamentally reconceptualizes the origins of the Cold War in Vietnam and the place of postcolonial Vietnam in the history of the twentieth century. Among the first Americans granted a visa to undertake...
Footprints of War
Militarized Landscapes in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
When American forces arrived in Vietnam, they found themselves embedded in historic village and frontier spaces already shaped by many past conflicts. American bases and bombing targets followed spatial and political logics influenced by the footprints of past wars in central Vietnam. The militarized...
Liberalism Disavowed
Communitarianism and State Capitalism in Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
In Liberalism Disavowed, Chua Beng Huat examines the rejection of Western-style liberalism in Singapore and the way the People's Action Party has forged an independent non-Western ideology. This book explains the evolution of this communitarian ideology, with focus on three areas: public housing,...
Bestemming Soerabaja
een verzwegen verleden in Nederlands-Indie
Language: Dutch
Release Date: May 13, 2014
In 1944, direct na de bevrijding van het zuiden van Nederland, meldt de zeventienjarige Harry Akkermans zich als oorlogsvrijwilliger om de rest van Nederland te helpen bevrijden. Zijn huis is verwoest, zijn favoriete oom is na een razzia spoorloos verdwenen en hij kan al maanden geen contact krijgen...
A War of Logistics
Parachutes and Porters in Indochina, 1945--1954
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Following the French reoccupation of Indochina at the end of World War II, the pro-Communist Vietnamese nationalists, or Viet Minh, launched a grassroots insurgency that erupted into a full-fledged war in 1949. After nearly ten years of savage combat, the western world was stunned when Viet Minh forces...
Singapore Chess
A History, 19451990
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
This book is the definitive volume on the history of chess in Singapore. Covering 19451990, it covers the post-war emergence of a truly "local" chess scene out of the colonial period, then taking the story up to the modern era. Contained within these pag