Southeast Asia category: 1948 books
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Language: German
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Language: German
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Keine Eruption in historischer Zeit war größer als die des Tambora - und keine hat mehr Neuerungen ausgelöst. Als Folge entstehen Kanalisation, Sozialgesetze und das Fahrrad. Sogar die Kunst wandelt sich unter den Aschewolken dieser Weltkatastrophe Die großen Themen der Zeit sind manchmal kompliziert....
Bang Chan
Social History of a Rural Community in Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Bang Chan traces the changing cultural characteristics of a small Siamese village during the century and a quarter from its founding as a wilderness settlement outside Bangkok to its absorption into the urban spread of the Thai capital. Rich in ethnographic detail, the book sums up the major findings...
Diem's Final Failure
Prelude to America's War in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Often portrayed as an inept and stubborn tyrant, South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem has long been the subject of much derision but little understanding. Philip Catton's penetrating study provides a much more complex portrait of Diem as both a devout patriot and a failed architect of modernization....
L'impertinent du Cambodge
Entretien avec François Ponchaud
Language: French
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Un témoignage passionnant sur la vie au pays des Khmers rouges.
Enfant d’une famille modeste mais heureuse, brillant à l’école, François Ponchaud grandit avec le destin tout tracé de devenir prêtre, chez lui, en Savoie. Mais la vie s’en mêle. Un temps parachutiste pendant la guerre...
The Collapse of British Rule in Burma
The Civilian Evacuation and Independence
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
In May 1942 colonial Burma was in a state of military, economic and constitutional collapse. Japanese forces controlled almost the whole country and thousands of evacuees were trapped in a huge area of no-man's-land in the north. They made their way to India through the so-called 'jungles of death',...
by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 13, 2012
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 13, 2012
India 1923. La giovane, bella e irrequieta Olivia getta lo scompiglio nella colonia britannica di Satipur. Fugge con il Nawab del luogo, abbandonando il marito, un irreprensibile e zelante funzionario dell’Impero animato dai più gretti pregiudizi nei confronti della popolazione locale. Sedotta...
The Girl Who Said Goodbye
A Memoir of a Khmer Rouge Survivor
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 1975.
After a sudden and violent takeover by the Khmer Rouge army, there is a mass exodus of the city. A young pharmacy student is held captive at a work camp, along with countless others, in a world turned upside down. Overnight, the brutal Khmer Rouge army have new rules...
Singapore Eurasians
Memories, Hopes and Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
Singapore Eurasians: Memories, Hopes and Dreams offers insight into the Singapore Eurasian community, one of Singapore's minority communities. Though small, the Eurasian community has undoubtedly played a big part in Singapore's nation-building. This book is the definitive record of Eurasian history...
Landing Zones
Southern Veterans Remember Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Landing Zones brings to life the dramatic, gripping, and often painful stories of twenty-four Vietnam Veterans from the American South. The men and women interviewed here represent a remarkable range of experience, including a marine rifleman, a helicopter pilot, an army nurse, a prisoner of war,...
Sir Stamford Raffles and Some of His Friends and Contemporaries
A Memoir of the Founder of Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2019
This publication is a biographical account of the founder of Singapore, Sir Stamford Raffles, through a study of the lives of his closest friends and contemporaries. Some of the personalities featured include William Brown Ramsay, John Leyden and Thomas Horsfield.
Contents:
The East India...
Writing the Past, Inscribing the Future
History as Prophecy in Colonial Java
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 1995
Located at the juncture of literature, history, and anthropology, Writing the Past, Inscribing the Future charts a strategy of how one might read a traditional text of non-Western historical literature in order to generate, with it, an opening for the future. This book does so by taking seriously...
by Mike Coppin
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
Shadow Chase is a journey-of-discovery novel in which Ryan Garland travels to Java to unravel the mystery of what happened there to his late father as a young soldier following WWII. Ryan must also confront here-and-now issues, as he learns more about the people of Java... and himself.
Salvage
Cultural Resilience among the Jorai of Northeast Cambodia
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
In Salvage, Krisna Uk draws on extensive research in a Cambodian village she calls Leu to provide a unique ethnography of the Jorai, an ethnic minority group that lives in Vietnam and in the most heavily bombed region of northeast Cambodia. The Jorai inhabit a remote region largely beyond the reach...
The Rohingya Crisis
A People Facing Extinction
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2018
Widely-known as the world’s most persecuted minority group, the Rohingya in Myanmar are now facing extinction. Denied citizenship rights, denied their very ethnic identity, hundreds of thousands have fled Rakhine State in Myanmar over the border into Bangladesh, where they face squalid conditions.
Many...