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Palace, Political Party and Power: A Story of the Socio-Political Development of Malay Kingship by Kobkua Suwannathat-Pian 9789971695071
Booksplease Price: £31.74After independence in 1957, the Malay monarchy was compelled to embrace Westminster-style constitutional monarchy, under which the role of the monarch is symbolic and affairs of the nation are run by... -
Economic Disparity in Rural Myanmar: Transformation Under Market Liberalization by Ikuko Okamoto 9789971693985
Booksplease Price: £29.00Market liberalization in Myanmar began in 1988 and had some unanticipated consequences. As farmers began to operate in a context with greatly reduced government control, there was an explosion in the... -
Studies on Islam and Society in Southeast Asia by William R. Roff 9789971694890
Booksplease Price: £41.93William R. Roff has spent more than forty years studying and writing about the modern history of Islam and Muslims, with special reference to Southeast Asia. With interests primarily in social and... -
Materializing Southeast Asia's Past: Selected Papers from the 12th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists, Volume 2 by Marijke J. Klokke 9789971696559
Booksplease Price: £72.03Materializing Southeast Asia's Past contains articles in historical and anthropological archaeology, epigraph, and art history. The interpretations of art and material culture offer new... -
SAVU: History And Oral Tradition On An Island Of Indonesia by Genevieve Duggan 9789814722759
Booksplease Price: £47.76The book focuses on the historical trajectories of Savu, an island in the Nusa Tenggara Timur province, eastern Indonesia. It blends historical and anthropological methods, using oral tradition,... -
Kent Ridge: An Untold Story by Kevin Y. L. Tan 9789814722810
Booksplease Price: £23.51Everything you might want to know about Kent Ridge in one book. Kent Ridge, a corner of Singapore island, has been home to the National University of Singapore (NUS) since the 1980s, but the area... -
Industrialization with a Weak State: Thailand's Development in Historical Perspective by Somboon Siriprachai 9789971696511
Booksplease Price: £25.48This volume of collected essays by Somboon Siriprachai offers a critical assessment of Thai industrialisation with a focus on industrial policy, rent seeking and income inequality. An economist by... -
Kebalian: The Dialogic Construction of Balinese Identity by Michel Picard 9789813252424
Booksplease Price: £36.88An investigation into the complex forces that shape Balinese identity. Over the past one hundred years, the Balinese have been challenged by colonial occupation, political turbulence, and, most... -
Changing Lives in Laos: Society, Politics, and Culture in a Post-Socialist State by Vanina Boute 9789814722261
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.34During the last two decades, Laos has undergone major transformations due to a massive influx of foreign investment. Improved communications and new forms of mobility have dramatically altered rural... -
Heritage and Identity in Contemporary Thailand: Memory, Place and Power by Ross King 9789814722278
Booksplease Price: £33.35Using Thailand as a case study, Ross King examines the role of place in the formation of identity through memory. Employing the idea of French historian Pierre Nora that because we no longer live in... -
Southeast Asia After the Cold War: A Contemporary History by Ang Cheng Guan 9789813250789
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36International politics in Southeast Asia since end of the Cold War in 1990 can be understood within the frames of order and an emerging regionalism embodied in the Association of Southeast Asian... -
Malaysiakini and the Power of Independent Media in Malaysia by Janet Steele 9789813252400
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14Malaysiakini was founded in 1999 by Steven Gan and Premesh Chandran, two young Malaysians who met as overseas students in Australia. One of the many online portals that sprung up in the wake of... -
Questioning Modernity in Indonesia and Malaysia by Wendy Mee 9789971695637
Booksplease Price: £30.26Questioning Modernity in Indonesia and Malaysia represents a contribution to a broader and ongoing project to examine the concept of modernity in the analysis of Indonesian and Malaysian economic,... -
The Chinese Question: Ethnicity, Nation, And Region In And Beyond The Philippines by Caroline S. Hau 9789971697921
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.51Over the past few decades, the rise of East Asia and mainland China has spurred the revival of "Chineseness" in the Philippines and other parts of Southeast Asia. Defined during the Cold War era as... -
Museums, History and Culture in Malaysia by Abu Talib Ahmad 9789971698195
Booksplease Price: £30.75It is not easy being a Museum Director in Malaysia - culture and history are seen as sensitive subjects, always viewed through ethnic and political lenses, and national narratives are highly... -
State and Finance in the Philippines, 1898-1941: The Mismanagement of an American Colony by Yoshiko Nagano 9789971698416
Booksplease Price: £32.07During the First World War, ill-advised steps by colonial officials in the Philippines who were responsible for the colony's finances created a crisis which lasted from 1919 until 1922. The... -
Contesting Space in Colonial Singapore: Power Relations and the Urban Built Environment by Brenda S. A. Yeoh 9789971692681
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36In the British colonial city of Singapore, municipal authorities and Asian communities faced off over numerous issue. As the city expanded, disputes arose in connection with sanitation, housing,... -
Future Asia Space: Projecting the Urban Space of New East Asia by Hee Limin 9789971695965
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12The idea of ""Asian space"" is undergoing a transformation as a result of rapid technological, economic, social and cultural changes. Following the shift to a global economy and an urban population... -
Nature's Colony: Empire, Nation and Environment in the Singapore Botanic Gardens by Timothy P. Barnard 9789814722223
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.70Established in 1859, Singapore's Botanic Gardens has been important as a park for Singaporeans and visitors, a scientific institution, and as an economic testing ground and launchpad for tropical... -
To Remain Myself: The History of Onghokham by David Reeve 9789813251595
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.70This is a particularly vivid biography of a remarkable individual, an Indonesian historian and public intellectual who was both a public figure and a multi-minority member, being Dutch-educated,... -
A History of Modern Singapore, 1819-2005 by Constance Turnbull 9789813251168
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.86First 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 Chinese in Maritime Southeast Asia: Trade and Merchant Communities in 17th-Century Insulindia Marie-Sybille De Vienne 9789813252806
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £35.21An in-depth exploration of the Dutch East-India Company and what its history reveals about the Chinese community in the Dutch East Indies. Connections between Asian and European markets increased... -
Singapore's Grand Strategy by Cheng Guan Ang 9789813252233
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14New insight into the defense history of Singapore. Even small states can have grand strategies. Singapore, despite its poor natural resource endowment, small population, and size, has often been... -
The Politics of the Malayan Communist Party from 1930 to 1948 by David Lockwood 9789813252585
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48A new evaluation of the history of the Malayan Communist Party. By 1946, the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) had become one of the most successful communist parties in Asia. From its foundation in... -
Liberalism and the Postcolony: Thinking the State in 20th-Century Philippines by Lisandro E. Claudio 9789814722520
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.70Extricating liberalism from the haze of anti-modernist and anti-European caricature, this book traces the role of liberal philosophy in the building of a new nation. It examines the role of... -
Cold War and Decolonisation: Australia's Policy towards Britain's End of Empire in Southeast Asia by Andrea Benvenuti 9789814722193
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14In this book, Andrea Benvenuti discusses the development of Australia's foreign and defense policies toward Malaya and Singapore in light of the redefinition of Britain's imperial role in Southeast... -
Making Home: Faith, Love and the Politics of Belonging in Japanese-Filipino Families by Mario Lopez 9789813253292
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £47.25How do faith, family, and migration intersect in the intimate lives of transnational couples? This ethnography examines Japanese-Filipino marriages in contemporary Japan to reveal how gendered... -
Wayward Distractions: Ornament, Emotion, Zombies and the Study of Buddhism in Thailand by Justin Thomas McDaniel
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14A collection of essays engaging with Buddhism in Thailand and the virtues of distraction and variety within the materialist turn in studies of religion.In Thailand, Buddhism is deeply integrated into... -
Mandalay and the Art of Building Cities in Burma by Francois Tainturier
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.74Drawing on original Burmese texts and illustrations, recent scholarship, and mapping, Mandalay and the Art of Building Cities in Burma argues that the founding of Mandalay shifted critically in... -
Seaways and Gatekeepers: Trade and State in the Eastern Archipelagos of Southeast Asia, c.1600-c.1906 by Heather Sutherland
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.74The eastern archipelagos of Southeast Asia stretch from Mindanao and Sulu in the north to Bali in the southwest and New Guinea in the southeast. Many of the inhabitants of this area are often... -
Paths Not Taken: Political Pluralism in Post-war Singapore by Michael D. Barr
Booksplease Price: £23.47Singapore's era of pluralism between the 1950s and 1970s was a time of extraordinary cultural, intellectual and political dynamism. Students, labour unions, ambitious political contenders, and... -
Till the Break of Day: A History of Mental Health Services in Singapore, 1841-1993 by Ng Beng Yeong
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.70This book documents the development of psychiatry in Singapore since its humble beginnings in the British colonial period. It should be of interest to health professionals, medical students,... -
Singapore, ASEAN and the Cambodian Conflict, 1978-1991 by Ang Cheng Guan
Booksplease Price: £35.23This is a ground-breaking study of the diplomatic efforts in the aftermath of Vietnam’s 1978 invasion of Cambodia. In retrospect, the resolution of the Cambodian conflict marked an important shift... -
Aan Thai: Basic Thai Reading Textbook by Titima Suthiwan
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.11Aan Thai is a basic Thai reading textbook designed to accompany the author's ""Khian Thai: Thai Writing Workbook"". It provides simple texts along with exercises in vocabulary, syntax, reading and... -
Southeast Asia in Ruins: Art and Empire in the Early 19th Century by Sarah Tiffin
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £29.76British artists and commentators in the late 18th and early 19th century encoded the twin aspirations of progress and power in images and descriptions of Southeast Asia's ruined Hindu and Buddhist... -
Bandung Revisited: The Legacy of the 1955 Asian-African Conference for International Order by See Seng Tan
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91The 1955 Asia-Africa conference (the ""Bandung Conference"") was a meeting of 29 Asian and African nations that sought to draw on Asian and African nationalism and religious traditions to forge a new... -
Britain, Southeast Asia and the Impact of the Korean War by Nicholas Tarling
Booksplease Price: £36.15A sequel to the author's Britain, Southeast Asia and the Onset of the Pacific War (Cambridge University Press, 1996) and Britain, Southeast Asia and the Onset of the Cold War (Cambridge University... -
China as a Sea Power, 1127-1368 by Jung-Pang Lo
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.78Lo Jung-pang, a renowned professor at the University of California, Davis, completed a 600-page typed manuscript entitled China as a Sea Power, 1127-1368 in 1957, but he died without arranging for... -
The Loss of Java: The Final Battles for the Possession of Java Fought by Allied Air, Naval and Land Forces in the Period 18 February-7 March 1942 by P. C. Boer 9789971695132
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.70The Loss of Java explains in detail the air, sea and land battles between the Allied and Japanese armed forces during the battle for Java that followed the evacuation of southern Sumatra in February... -
Urbanization, Migration and Poverty in a Vietnamese Metropolis: Ho Chi Minh City in Comparative Perspectives by Hy Van Luong 9789971694555
Booksplease Price: £31.58With the shift to a market economy, Ho Chi Minh City became a magnet for migrants and experienced rapid growth. Migration provides labor for economic growth in Ho Chi Minh City, and remittances sent...