Southeast Asia

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316159197Author Frances FitzGeraldFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)...

This book examines two aspects of the abbreviated reign of King Ananda Mahidol (1935-1946), or King Rama VIII, of the current Chakri dynasty of Thailand. First, it discusses the royal family's plot to thwart a romantic relationship between the young...

This book provides a sophisticated summary of up-to-date knowledge on the Fall of Singapore, including the critical tensions between Churchill and local commanders. A focus on the role of Churchill, and on his understanding of the guns and Singapore's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Governor General's Literary Award.Book InformationISBN 9780140280210Author Denise ChongFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam...

This authoritative and wide-ranging 1997 history traces events in this little-known country from ancient monarchy, through its establishment as a French colony, to independence in 1953, the People's Democratic Republic, and the present one-party...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611806496Author Kamala TiyavanichFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

This book is intended for modern students, inside or outside the classroom, as a work of reference rather than a "teach yourself" textbook. It presents an introductory sketch of Pali using both European and South Asian grammatical categories. In...

Borders and conflict in South Asia is the first full-length study of the 1947 drawing of the Indo-Pakistani boundary in Punjab. Using the Radcliffe commission as a window onto the decolonisation and independence of India and Pakistan, and examining the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541603653Author Christopher GoschaFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 513gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804108195Author Gary LindererFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Ivy Books,U.S.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 171mm *...

This pioneering work traces the history and evolution of the textiles of Myanmar (Burma) made and used by the Burman (Bama) ethnic majority. Written accessibly, it covers the importance of textiles in many contexts as well as changes and innovation...

Blending fine-grained case studies with overarching theory, this book seeks both to integrate Southeast Asia into world history and to rethink much of Eurasia's premodern past. It argues that Southeast Asia, Europe, Japan, China, and South Asia all...

In 1950, France experienced two parallel but different outcomes in its Indochina war. While the conflict in the north ended with a disastrous defeat for the French at Dien Bien Phu, in southern Vietnam, or Cochinchina, France emerged victorious in a...

By tracing the evolving worldview of Vietnamese communists over 80 years as they led Vietnam through wars, social revolution, and peaceful development, this book shows the depth and resilience of their commitment to the communist utopia in their foreign...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333241646Author D.G.E. HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 1073Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 1360g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312429706Author Michael NormanFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Taming Babel sheds new light on the role of language in the making of modern postcolonial Asian nations. Focusing on one of the most linguistically diverse territories in the British Empire, Rachel Leow explores the profound anxieties generated by a...

Between the fifteenth and the mid-seventeenth centuries, when the Renaissance and early capitalism were transforming Europe, changes no less dramatic were occurring in Southeast Asia. This diverse tropical region was integrated into a global trade...

In Warring Visions, Thy Phu explores photography from dispersed communities throughout Vietnam and the Vietnamese diaspora, both during and after the Vietnam War, to complicate narratives of conflict and memory. While the visual history of the Vietnam...

No Wider War is the second volume of a two-part exploration of America's involvement in Indochina from the end of World War II to the Fall of Saigon. Following on from the first volume, In Good Faith, which told the story from the Japanese surrender...

On 2 May 2008, an enormous tropical cyclone made landfall in Burma. The cyclone wreaked untold havoc, but the regime, in an unfathomable decision of near-genocidal proportions, blocked international aid from entering the country, and provided little...

Despite competing with much larger imperialist neighbors in Southeast Asia, the Kingdom of Thailand-or Siam, as it was formerly known-has succeeded in transforming itself into a rival modern nation-state over the last two centuries. Recent historiography...

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...

"'Come, let us build a Third Kingdom, and in this Third Reich, hey, sisters, you will live happily; hey, brothers, you will live happily; hey, kids, you will live happily; hey, you German patriots, you will see Germany sitting enthroned above all the...

On December 7, 1941, a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor plunged the United States into armed conflict with Japan. In the first three months of the war the Japanese seemed unbeatable as they seized American, British, and European territory across the...

It is unlikely that any country in Asia in recent years has undergone such internal policy shifts in so short a time as Myanmar. Until recently, the former British colony had one of the most secretive, corrupt, and repressive regimes on the planet, a...

In this first full-length study on the topic, Matthew Hunt-with access to rare and controversial films-provides a history of film censorship in Thailand. Hunt outlines its beginnings in the country, when films were censored by the police for political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781490797700Author Felipe CofrerosFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm)...

South Vietnam fell because of events occurring thousands of miles away from the battlefields--in China, the Soviet Union, Latin America, the Middle East, and Washington's corridors of power, along protest lines, and around America's dinner tables...

Farquhar, Crawford, Cavenagh, Thomson, Anderson, Napier, Fullerton, Henderson, MacRitchie, MacPherson, Outram, Purvis, Spottiswoode. These are some of the Scots who have played a part in making Singapore.Guthrie, Fraser & Neave, Rodyk & Davidson, Sime...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345479075Author David DonovanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 411gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644872550Author Alicia KlepeisFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Bellwether MediaPublisher Bellwether Media

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637162804Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm)...

First published in 1977, C. M. Turnbull's one-volume history of Singapore has been an essential resource for more than forty years. Turnbull's History provides a solid foundation for understanding of the two-hundred-year trajectory of Singapore from...

Winner of the 2021 Gourmand Awards, Asian Section & Culinary History Section Filipino cuisine is a delicious fusion of foreign influences, adopted and transformed into its own unique flavor. But to the Americans who came to colonize the islands in the...

'An outstanding book of astonishing power . . . One finishes it with an ache in the heart'Jon Swain, writer and foreign correspondent, author of River of Time'Like Auschwitz, like Stalin's purges, the mass murders of the Khmer Rouge are one of those...

From December 1941, Japan, as part of its plan to build an East Asian empire and secure oil supplies essential for war in the Pacific, swiftly took control of Southeast Asia. Japanese occupation had a devastating economic impact on the region. Japan...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637162880Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm)...

Traces the story of India's expansion that is woven into the culture of Southeast Asia.Book InformationISBN 9780824803681Author G. CoedesFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint University of Hawai'i PressPublisher University of Hawai'i Press

A New Sun Rises Over the Old Land traces the story of Sam, a young man who leaves the countryside for the capital after the death of his parents. Once there he is exposed to the hardships and injustice of the city's capitalist society. All Sam wants to...