Southeast Asia category: 1948 books
The Return of the Galon King
History, Law, and Rebellion in Colonial Burma
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
In late 1930, on a secluded mountain overlooking the rural paddy fields of British Burma, a peasant leader named Saya San crowned himself King and inaugurated a series of uprisings that would later erupt into one of the largest anti-colonial rebellions in Southeast Asian history. Considered an imposter...
Shadow Commander
The Epic Story of Donald D. Blackburn—Guerrilla Leader and Special Forces Hero
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
The true story of the US Army legend who organized “Blackburn’s Headhunters” against Japan in WWII and went on to initiate Special Forces operations in Vietnam.
The fires on Bataan burned on the evening of April 9, 1942—illuminating the white flags of surrender against the dark sky....
by Emma Larkin
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2006
A fascinating political travelogue that traces the life and work of George Orwell, author of 1984 and ANIMAL FARM, in Southeast Asia
Over the years the American writer Emma Larkin has spent traveling in Burma, also known as Myanmar, she's come to know all too well the many ways this brutal...
Imperial Alchemy
Nationalism and Political Identity in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
The mid-twentieth century marked one of the greatest watersheds of Asian history, when a range of imperial constructs were declared to be nation-states, either by revolution or decolonisation. Nationalism was the great alchemist, turning the base metal of empire into the gold of nations. To achieve...
Frontier Livelihoods
Hmong in the Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Do ethnic minorities have the power to alter the course of their fortune when living within a socialist state? In Frontier Livelihoods, the authors focus their study on the Hmong - known in China as the Miao - in the Sino-Vietnamese borderlands, contending that individuals and households create livelihoods...
RAND in Southeast Asia
A History of the Vietnam War Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010
This volume chronicles RAND's involvement in researching insurgency and counterinsurgency in Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand during the Vietnam War era and assesses the effect that this research had on U.S. officials and policies. Elliott draws on interviews with former RAND staff and the many studies...
by Bertil Lintner
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Remarkable for their military prowess, their receptivity to Christianity, and their intricate all-embracing kinship network, the Kachins are a hardy mountain people living in the remote hills of northern Burma (Myanmar), and on the peripheries of China and India.
During the Second World War...
The War That Never Ends
New Perspectives on the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
More than three decades after the final withdrawal of American troops from Southeast Asia, the legacy of the Vietnam War continues to influence political, military, and cultural discourse. Journalists, politicians, scholars, pundits, and others have used the conflict to analyze each of America's subsequent...
The Remains of War
Bodies, Politics, and the Search for American Soldiers Unaccounted For in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2005
The ongoing effort of the United States to account for its missing Vietnam War soldiers is unique. The United States requires the repatriation and positive identification of soldiers’ bodies to remove their names from the list of the missing. This quest for certainty in the form of the material,...
Participation without Democracy
Containing Conflict in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Over the past quarter century new ideologies of participation and representation have proliferated across democratic and non-democratic regimes. In Participation without Democracy, Garry Rodan breaks new conceptual ground in examining the social forces that underpin the emergence of these innovations...
Batcats
The United States Air Force 553Rd Reconnaissance Wing in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2003
Written by men who flew the missions and gathered together the recollections of their comrades, this is an account of the political, social, cultural, technical and combat context of an extraordinary side of the Vietnam conflict. An account touching on topics ranging from Thai supernaturalism to high...
A Geek in Indonesia
Discover the Land of Balinese Healers, Komodo Dragons and Dangdut
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
For anyone wanting to move beyond tired travel guide cliches, A Geek in Indonesia is a hip, irreverent and streetwise introduction to Southeast Asia's biggest country.
Jump from the beaches of Bali to a tour bus circuit of the fascinating island of Java and come face to face with the reality...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2018
This report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
The competition for power and influence between China and the United States in Southeast Asia has presented strategic uncertainties in the region. Vietnam, like the rest of Southeast Asia, has...
by Wendy Khadijah Moore
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2002
Featuring beautiful photographs of Malaysia along with insightful historical commentary, this visual guide to Malaysia is a wonderful exploration of Asia's tropical peninsula.
Lying at the heart of Southeast Asia, Malaysia offers a panoply of Asian colors, impressions, smells, noises, tastes...