Southeast Asia

Radicals tells the story of a group of radical Malay men and women from ordinary social backgrounds who chose to oppose foreign rule of their homeland, knowing full well that by embarking on this path of resistance, they would risk imprisonment or death...

Ships of empire carried not just merchandise, soldiers and administrators but also equine genes from as far afield as Europe, Arabia, the Americas, China and Japan. In the process, they introduced horses into parts of the world not native to that animal...

Robert Ferrell Book Prize Honorable Mention 2021, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Book Award for Outstanding Achievement in History Honorable Mention 2022, Association for Asian American StudiesAfter the US war in Vietnam, close to...

This important book, the first of its kind, is a historical, social, cultural and linguistic study of Indonesian. Indonesia is the fourth most populous nation in the world, and one of the most linguistically complex. Its ethnic groups speak more than 500...

American acquisition of the Philippines and Filipino resistance to it became a focal point for debate on American imperialism. In a lively narrative, Miller tells the story of the war and how it challenged America's sense of innocence. He examines the...

In the seventeenth century, the Dutch established a trading base at the Indonesian site of Jacarta. What began as a minor colonial outpost under the name Batavia would become, over the next three centuries, the flourishing economic and political nucleus...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802133625Author Jane FranklinFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Grove PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressWeight(grams) 771g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Lukas Prize Project (Lynton History Prize) 2001.Book InformationISBN 9780786863877Author William J DuikerFormat HardbackPage Count 704Imprint...

During the presidency of Lyndon Johnson, the British government sought to avoid escalation of the war in Vietnam and to help bring about peace, but the British were only able to exert little, if any, influence on the United States. In this in-depth...

Incorporating research findings over the last twenty years, First Islanders examines the human prehistory of Island Southeast Asia. This fascinating story is explored from a broad swathe of multidisciplinary perspectives and pays close attention to...

Indonesia is the fourth largest country in the world. It comprises more than 17,000 islands inhabited by 230 million people who speak over 300 different languages. Now the world's largest Muslim nation, Indonesia remains extraordinarily heterogeneous due...

This study of the encounter between Vietnam and the United States from 1919 to 1950 reconceptualizes the origins of the Cold War in Vietnam and the place of postcolonial Vietnam in the history of the 20th century. Among the first Americans granted a visa...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781892220073Author Patience H C MasonFormat PaperbackPage Count 466Imprint Patience PressPublisher Patience PressWeight(grams) 676gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Island of Bali is now available with a foreword by Professor Adrian Vickers which puts the book into context for a modern audience.First published in 1937, Island of Bali is still regarded by many as the most authoritative text on Bali and its...

In the late 1990s, planning authorities in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi pushed the imaginary line between city and country several kilometres westward, engulfing dozens of rural settlements. As state policies forced rapid urbanization, villagers whose...

The mountainous borderlands of socialist China, Vietnam, and Laos are home to some seventy million minority people of diverse ethnicities. In Moving Mountains, anthropologists, geographers, and political economists with first-hand experience in the...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789067182836Author H.G.C. Schulte NordholtFormat PaperbackPage Count 564Imprint K.I.T.L.V.Publisher K.I.T.L.V.Weight(grams) 876g

The practice of everyday life in Tana Toraja (South Sulawesi, Indonesia) is structured by a series of public events, of which funerals are the most important. Even after Indonesia was hit by an economic crisis in the late 1990s, thousands of extravagant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789067183475Author Herman BurgersFormat HardbackPage Count 830Imprint K.I.T.L.V.Publisher K.I.T.L.V.Weight(grams) 1434g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789067182942Author P. BoomgaardFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint K.I.T.L.V.Publisher K.I.T.L.V.Weight(grams) 608g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789067182683Author Jemma PurdeyFormat PaperbackImprint K.I.T.L.V.Publisher K.I.T.L.V.Weight(grams) 463g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789067181884Author Freek ColombijnFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint K.I.T.L.V.Publisher K.I.T.L.V.Weight(grams) 604g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789067181853Author Thomas ReuterFormat PaperbackPage Count 359Imprint K.I.T.L.V.Publisher K.I.T.L.V.Weight(grams) 689g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789067181846Author Huub JongeFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint K.I.T.L.V.Publisher K.I.T.L.V.Weight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789067181600Author C. (Kees) van DijkFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint K.I.T.L.V.Publisher K.I.T.L.V.Weight(grams) 939g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789067180771Author V.J.H. HoubenFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint K.I.T.L.V.Publisher K.I.T.L.V.Weight(grams) 644g

The archive of the Kong Koan constitutes the only relatively complete archive of a “diaspora” Chinese urban community in Southeast Asia. The essays in the present volume offer important and new insights into many different aspects of Overseas Chinese...

Dealing with New Order perceptions of the past this study gives insights into how the past can be used for purposes of national-building and regime legitimization and into the nature of the New Order. The Suharto regime created a coherent history that is...

This book is one of the few books written in English on Chaozhou culture and history. It compiles information from Chinese and English sources including archive material, academic works and publications from China and Singapore. It presents a panorama...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789067182324Author Gerrit KnaapFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint K.I.T.L.V.Publisher K.I.T.L.V.Weight(grams) 463g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789067182256Author P. BoomgaardFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint K.I.T.L.V.Publisher K.I.T.L.V.Weight(grams) 572g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789067182065Author Yong Mun CheongFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint K.I.T.L.V.Publisher K.I.T.L.V.Weight(grams) 372g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789067181419Author Karel SteenbrinkFormat PaperbackPage Count 534Imprint K.I.T.L.V.Publisher K.I.T.L.V.Weight(grams) 838g

This title is available online in its entirety in Open Access. In Environment, Trade and Society in Southeast Asia: A Longue Duree Perspective, eleven historians bring their knowledge and insights to bear on the long sweep of Southeast Asian history...

Since the 1960s, overseas migration has become a major factor in the economy of the Philippines. It has also profoundly influenced the sense of nationhood of both migrants and nonmigrants. Migrant workers learned to view their home country as part of a...

An analysis of the human-animal relationship in post-colonial Singapore. Modern Singapore is the Garden City, a biophilic urban space that includes a variety of animals, from mosquitoes to humans, even polar bears. Singaporean Creatures brings together...

A World Transformed looks at the Vietnamese revolution from the perspective of Vietnamese culture itself rather than as a reaction to the Cold War or to the actions of external enemies. Kim N. B. Ninh explores the complex debates within Vietnamese...

A collection of essays written on twentieth-century Vietnamese society, Viêt Nam Exposé is one of only a handful of books written by French scholars for an English-speaking audience. The volume is multidisciplinary and represents a new trend in...