Southeast category: 2400 books
A Delicate Relationship
The United States and Burma/Myanmar since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
In 2012, Barack Obama became the first U.S. president ever to visit Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. This official state visit marked a new period in the long and sinuous diplomatic relationship between the United States and Burma/Myanmar, which Kenton Clymer examines in A Delicate Relationship....
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
This handy birdwatching field guide is an excellent introduction to the fantastic array of birds found in Southeast Asia.
Southeast Asia is home to a remarkable array of bird species—the most diverse on Earth. These birds range in size from the tiny Orange-bellied Flowerpeckers living within...
Vietnam Today
A Guide to a Nation at a Crossroads
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
"Pulsating with energy and steeped in dreams."
Vietnam stands at a crossroads. Located in the geographical center of Southeast Asia, Vietnam is a complex mixture of the ancient and the modern. A Soviet-style legacy contrasts with an emerging Western-style market economy. Vietnam is...
by Ian Brown
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Burma was among the most prosperous territories in the East. Yet since gaining independence in 1948, its economy has struggled. Burma's developmental failure has often been attributed to gross mismanagement of the economy by the military who took power in...
by Christopher G. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
The Great Unravelling Trilogy, as this Calvino trilogy may be called, is about the desperation and hope of individuals seeking freedom who find themselves perilously constrained in Southeast Asia, where human rights and liberty are negatively geared by big men in power.
It is safe to say that...
by John Hoskins
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Thailand is one of the world’s most popular travel destinations for many very good reasons: friendly people, warm climate, sandy beaches, clear sea, stunning landscape, fascinating culture, spicy food, colorful nightlife. The list goes on.
Alone amongst Southeast Asian nations, Thailand escaped...
Early Mapping of the Pacific
The Epic Story of Seafarers, Adventurers and Cartographers Who Mapped the Earth's Greatest Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Take a journey back to the uncharted oceans with the most celebrated European explorers!
Interest in Southeast Asian history and culture is higher than ever before. Ancient cartography of Oceania holds mysteries as old as time—were these early ocean maps molded as much by fantasy as fact?...
Journey Through the Philippines
An Unforgettable Journey from Manila to Mindanao
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Journey Through the Philippines is the ultimate Philippines travel pictorial for exploring Asia's second largest archipelago, home to some of the world's most beautiful natural landscapes.
Often overlooked by travelers in Southeast Asia, the Philippines is one of the region's most exciting...
Taiwan the small guide
Advices + experiences and feelings + visit ideas
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
Welcome to this little guide on Taiwan. Taiwan is an island located in southeast China. Officially part of China, Taiwan still operates independently. Located at equal distance from Japan than from Southeast Asia and especially Vietnam, the country benefits from a semi-tropical climate, indeed the...
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...