South And Southeast Asia – alle Bücher, CDs und LPs, Seite 9

Jason Brownlee
Force Without Authority

Force Without Authority explores why the United States' costliest military operations since Vietnam came up short and pushed Republican and Democratic leaders toward withdrawal and retrenchment. Covering …

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Chasing Traces

"In the connected highlands of southwest China, Vietnam, and Laos, recalling the past is a highly sensitive act. Among local societies, many may actively avoid recalling the past for fear of endanger…

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Scott Miller
Let My Country Awake

"[Miller] plunges into his tale with gusto . . . [Let My Country Awake is] never less than fascinating." -Tunku Varadarajan, The Wall Street Journal"Propulsive . . . A thrilling excavation …

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Rebecca Fannin
Tech Titans of China: How China's Tech Sector Is Challenging the World by Innovating Faster, Working Harder & Going Global

Featuring detailed profiles of the Chinese tech companies making waves, the tech sectors that matter most in China's grab for superpower status, and forward-looking insights into the next decade of China'…

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Fiona Williamson
Imperial Weather

Tropical weather in colonial Malaya presented an unknown atmosphere that manifested in extremes and uncertainties. From 1840 to 1940, the Indigenous landscapes of Singapore and Penang Islands were altered…

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Taylor C Sherman
Nehru's India

An iconoclastic history of the first two decades after independence in IndiaNehru's India brings a provocative but nuanced set of new interpretations to the history of early independent India. Drawing fro…

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Roger Casas,
Worldly Engagements

The Tai Lue of Sipsong Panna, located in China's southern Yunnan province, is the largest community of Theravada Buddhists in a country where the Mahayana tradition is dominant. In recent decades, and in …

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Remco Raben, Peter Romijn,
Tales of Violence

Although it has long been known that the Indonesian War of Independence was far more violent than generally assumed by the Dutch public, for a long time the tendency to downplay, ignore, or justify the sc…

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Stephen Rookes
France's War in Indochina

This first volume of a three-part series on the First Indochina War centered on the period between 1946-1949. A time when tensions between east and west were on the rise, the Indochina War was a colonial …

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Avni Chag
The Relic in the Glass Cabinet

The Shikshapatri (1826) is a scripture presented as a letter to devotees from Swaminarayan (1781-1830), the founder and principal deity of the eponymous Swaminarayan tradition. Designated by millions as a…

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George Uhl
Sudden Death

Through the eyes of a Marine radioman, Sudden Death unveils the constant threat of death in Vietnam's unforgiving jungles.His call sign said it all: Sudden Death. It didn't take George Uhl long into his t…

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Thant Myint-U
Peacemaker

Born in a remote town in Burma and a practicing Buddhist, U Thant was for a time, one of the most important men in the world. Respected and consulted by both superpowers, U Thant, as the world's preeminen…

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Republican Vietnam, 1963-1975

English-language scholarship all too often dismisses South Vietnam as an American creation, a product of US imperialism. Republican Vietnam, 1963--1975 boldly upends this depiction, exposing a diverse and…

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Nicholas Chan
The Politics of Counter-Terror

There is a fundamental paradox in counter-terrorism: while Muslim state elites insist that Islam has nothing to do with terrorism, the way Muslim states deal with terrorism has everything to do with Islam…

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Ashish Koul
Reinventing Caste

This book reveals that caste, usually assumed to be a feature of Hindu society, was in fact a trans-religious phenomenon in colonial India, as it is today. Even in an Islamic religious milieu that was sup…

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Ashish Koul
Reinventing Caste

This book reveals that caste, usually assumed to be a feature of Hindu society, was in fact a trans-religious phenomenon in colonial India, as it is today. Even in an Islamic religious milieu that was sup…

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Jane M Ferguson
Silver Screens and Golden Dreams

In a tour-de-force study of sixty years of cinematic entertainment, Silver Screens and Golden Dreams traces the veins of Burmese popular movies across three periods in history: the colonial era, the parli…

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Humera Malik,
Farah's Nose

A heartwarming tale about a girl whose disdain for her strong nose turns to love and pride when she discovers the long line of South Asian immigrant women on whose shoulders she stands today.

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Robin Hanbury-Tenison
Finding Eden

The story of the expedition that launched the global rainforest movement.

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Chris Moffat
Lahore After Modernism

In the decades after independence in 1947, architects in Pakistan were enlisted to build a postcolonial future -- a new world after empire. But the debris of the past could not be so easily swept aside. T…

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