This book tells the full story of the US Naval air campaign during the Vietnam War between 1965 to 1975, where the US Seventh Fleet, stationed off the Vietnamese coast, was given the tongue-in-cheek……続きを見る
This book uses empirical evidence from various case studies to examine the relationship between territorial and regional autonomy, the nation-state and ethnic conflict resolution in South and South-……続きを見る
著者:Judith Beyer
出版社: University of Hawaii Press
発売日: 2024年03月31日
In this first anthropological study of Muslim and Hindu lives in urban Myanmar today, Judith Beyer develops the concept of “we-formation” to demonstrate that individuals are always more than members……続きを見る
The world food crisis (1972–1975) gave rise to new development concepts. To eradicate world hunger, small peasants were supposed to use ‘modern’ inputs like high-yielding seeds, fertilizer, pesticid……続きを見る
Who was Tse Tsan Tai? Insurrectionist? Socialite? Patriot? Revolutionary?
Born and raised in Australia and trained in Anglo-Hong Kong’s civil service, Tse Tsan Tai (1872–1938) was all of these and m……続きを見る
著者:Martin Saxer
出版社: Cornell University Press
発売日: 2023年01月15日
Tracing the experiences of mobile Himalayans across the globe, Places in Knots describes the ways in which Himalayan people relate to the multiple places they inhabit and the work and trouble of kee……続きを見る
In Empire's Violent End**, Thijs Brocades Zaalberg and Bart Luttikhuis, along with expert contributors, present comparative research focused specifically on excessive violence in Indonesia, Algeria,……続きを見る
For four years in the 1970s, the people of Cambodia endured a nightmarish era of brutality that left millions dead, and its survivors still wounded from the trauma they endured. Based on a series of……続きを見る
The book delves into the overall structure and operation of the society of the Thai people. It covers several political eras, a millennium of history, up to 1957. This is an endless but an important……続きを見る
In the twenty-first century, land deals in the Global South have become increasingly prevalent and controversial. Transnational access to arable land in impoverished "land-rich" countries in Latin A……続きを見る
著者:Patricia Spyer
出版社: Fordham University Press
発売日: 2021年11月02日
Less than a year after the end of authoritarian rule in 1998, huge images of Jesus Christ and other Christian scenes proliferated on walls and billboards around a provincial town in eastern Indonesi……続きを見る
Woman between Two Kingdomsexplores the story of Dara Rasami, one of 153 wives of King Chulalongkorn of Siam during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Born in a kingdom near Siam call……続きを見る
著者:Hamish McDonald
出版社: St. Martin's Publishing Group
発売日: 2015年01月06日
Indonesia, a nation of thousands of islands and almost 250 million people, straddles the junction of the Pacific and Indian oceans. Current President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has presided over 6 per……続きを見る
Year of the Rabbit tells the true story of one family’s desperate struggle to survive the murderous reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. In 1975, the Khmer Rouge seized power in the capital city of……続きを見る
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The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- backed by the United States.
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著者:Victor Lieberman
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
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 Southe……続きを見る
著者:Garrett Field
出版社: University of California Press
発売日: 2017年03月22日
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The study of South Asian musi……続きを見る
Bang Chan traces the changing cultural characteristics of a small Siamese village during the century and a quarter from its founding as a wilderness settlement outside Bangkok to its absorption into……続きを見る
Flying pigs, retro hairstyles and hand grenades are among some of the images found in this new book celebrating the art and craft of Cambodia’s hand-painted advertising. Published in November 2012, ……続きを見る
This volume interrogates the foundational categories that have come to define medical science in modern South Asia. It seeks to probe issues such as what constitutes the ‘medical’, in which context,……続きを見る
"History of the Philippine Islands" in 2 volumes is a chronicle written by the Spanish priest Joaquín Martínez de Zúñiga. The book features the history of the Philippines from their discovery by Fer……続きを見る
Jakarta, Indonesia, in all its various guises - at times under the influence of Chinese, Indians, Portuguese, Dutch, British and Japanese, dates back over two thousand years. This is a snapshot of s……続きを見る
Indonesia is one of the most compelling countries on earth; it offers unexpected adventures that range from taking tea with a corpse or a Sultan to negotiating crowds of thugs dressed as Islamists, ……続きを見る