A groundbreaking new history of how the Vietnam War thwarted U.S. liberal ambitions in the developing world and at home in the 1960s
At the start of the 1960s, John F. Kennedy and other American lib……続きを見る
著者:Shawn F. McHale
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2021年08月26日
Shawn McHale explores why the communist-led resistance in Vietnam won the anticolonial war against France (1945–54), except in the south. He shows how broad swaths of Vietnamese people were uneasily……続きを見る
著者:Ted Osius
出版社: Rutgers University Press
発売日: 2021年10月15日
Today Vietnam is one of America’s strongest international partners, with a thriving economy and a population that welcomes American visitors. How that relationship was formed is a twenty-year story ……続きを見る
著者:Suon Sorin
出版社: National University of Singapore Press
発売日: 2020年04月30日
This is the story of Sam, a young man who leaves the countryside for the big city to work as a cyclo driver, piloting his three-wheeled bicycle taxi through busy streets. Sam just wants to earn an h……続きを見る
著者:Kathryn C. Statler
出版社: The University Press of Kentucky
発売日: 2021年09月07日
Using recently released archival materials from the United States and Europe, Replacing France: The Origins of American Intervention in Vietnam explains how and why the United States came to assume ……続きを見る
著者:Ronald K. Edgerton
出版社: The University Press of Kentucky
発売日: 2021年09月07日
American Datu: John J. Pershing and Counterinsurgency Warfare in the Muslim Philippines, 1899–1913 provides a play-by-play account of a crucial but often overlooked period in the development of Amer……続きを見る
In 1965, in the midst of the Vietnam War, Tùng-Phong reached out to the Vietnamese leaders in the North and South.
He wanted to inform his contemporaries about the short-term needs of Vietnam as a w……続きを見る
An aged and glossy leather briefcase was discovered when our family house was cleaned out and sold. We came to learn that my father had meticulously collected his military documents, private letters……続きを見る
Part of the SECOND WORLD WAR VOICES series in partnership with the podcast We Have Ways of Making You Talk, presented by comedian Al Murray and bestselling historian James Holland.
'Heroic, punishin……続きを見る
著者:Thy Phu
出版社: Duke University Press
発売日: 2021年10月18日
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 conflic……続きを見る
Winner of the Best First Book Award from Phi Alpha Theta's History Honor Society
Scars of War examines the decisions of U.S. policymakers denying the Amerasians of Vietnamーthe biracial sons and dau……続きを見る
Caodaism is a new religion, organized in Vietnam last century. Today it boasts millions of believers and is officially recognized by the state. What does this religion teach? How does it compare to ……続きを見る
This book analyzes the role of Đại Việt (Vietnam) in the maritime Asian trading network of the thirteenth through the eighteenth centuries as it systematically integrates the results of archaeologic……続きを見る
著者:Jonathan Saha
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2021年11月11日
Animals were vital to the British colonization of Myanmar. In this pathbreaking history of British imperialism in Myanmar from the early nineteenth century to 1942, Jonathan Saha argues that animals……続きを見る
著者:Kirk A. Denton
出版社: Hong Kong University Press
発売日: 2021年11月03日
The Landscape of Historical Memory explores the place of museums and memorial culture in the contestation over historical memory in postmartial law Taiwan. The book is particularly oriented toward t……続きを見る
The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw extraordinary transfer and diffusion of industry- and transportation-related technology, and business methods. While most scholarship on ninetee……続きを見る
Ignoring pain & suffering of one Nation from far South Eastern corner of the World that all the rich countries
and all the Super Powers love to settle their differences on that land. Cover up and fo……続きを見る
著者:Edward Jarvis
出版社: Penn State University Press
発売日: 2021年09月30日
Sometimes presumed to be a mere relic of British colonialism, the Anglican Church in Burma (Myanmar) has its own complex identity, intricately interwoven with beliefs and traditions that predate the……続きを見る
A multifaceted history of Ho Chi Minh’s climactic victory over French colonial might that foreshadowed America’s experience in Vietnam
On May 7, 1954, when the bullets stopped and the air stilled in……続きを見る
著者:Arjun Subrahmanyan
出版社: State University of New York Press
発売日: 2021年12月01日
Describes the profound social impact of the overthrow of the Thai absolute monarchy in 1932, and explains the importance of democracy in a country long known for authoritarian politics.
Thailand's m……続きを見る
The pontianak, a terrifying female vampire ghost, is a powerful figure in Malay cultures, as loved and feared in Southeast Asia as Dracula is in the West. In animist tradition, she is a woman who ha……続きを見る
著者:Li Anshan
出版社: Diasporic Africa Press
発売日: 2017年10月26日
A History of Overseas Chinese in Africa to 1911 explores early Chinese knowledge of and contacts with Africa through Chinese literature on Africa and current archeological evidence, suggesting Sino-……続きを見る
Shortlisted for the 2022 EuroSEAS Humanities Book Prize
Quyền Văn Minh (b. 1954) is not only a jazz saxophonist and lecturer at the prestigious Vietnam National Academy of Music, but he is also one ……続きを見る
著者:Angie Ngoc Tran
出版社: University of Illinois Press
発売日: 2022年01月11日
Vietnam annually sends a half million laborers to work at low-skill jobs abroad. Angie Ngọc Trần concentrates on ethnicity, class, and gender to examine how migrant workers belonging to the Kinh, Ho……続きを見る
A keen critic of culture in modern Indonesia, Andrew N. Weintraub shows how a genre of Indonesian music called dangdut evolved from a debased form of urban popular music to a prominent role in Indon……続きを見る