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When Myanmar emerged from colonial rule, it promised a united federal future. Instead, the country spiraled into dictatorship, ethnic conflict, and shattered dreams. Young Tigers unravels this gripp……続きを見る

The encounter of indigenous history-making tradition with Western historical practice has been long neglected in Southeast Asian scholarship. Theara Thun offers one of the first critical and systema……続きを見る

This incisive volume brings together postcolonial studies, visual culture and cultural memory studies to explain how the Netherlands continues to rediscover its history of violence in colonial Indon……続きを見る

In 2019, when Mew Salangam passed away at 91, newspapers across Thailand described him as belonging to the last generation of elephant doctors. Mew was a member of the Kui Ajiang community in Thaila……続きを見る

Under the slogan 'Merdeka!' the Republic of Indonesia rushed into a battle for independence, a struggle of which no one could predict the outcome. Harry Poeze and Henk Schulte Nordholt provide a new……続きを見る

This book examines how community remembers one of the most gruesome acts of violence in the 20th century: the anti-communist violence in 1965 in Indonesia. Through a case study in a rural district i……続きを見る

For a long time, Europe’s colonizing powers justified their urge for expansion with the conviction that they were ‘bringing civilization to territories where civilization was lacking.’ This doctrine……続きを見る

In 2016, a newspaper published an article about four children due to be sent to an orphanage after their parents were punished for attempting to flee Vietnam. Among 46 asylum seekers trying to reach……続きを見る

一場軍事行動，如何萌發日本帝國主義的殖民大夢？ 1874年，日本以琉球人在南臺灣遇害為由宣稱懲凶，派軍攻打臺灣，稱之「臺灣出兵」，是明治維新以來首次對外用兵。要解釋此事件的前因與後果，必須將其置於西方帝……続きを見る

Weaving a critique of major power intervention into political history, this book provides a comprehensive overview of Cambodia from 1953 to the present. Since gaining its independence in 1953, Cambo……続きを見る

In the nineteenth century, France forcibly took Vietnam as a colony and proceeded to strip it of its natural resources. Over the decades that followed, the Vietnamese mounted various attempts to rid……続きを見る

Described as one of the most powerful leaders in Cambodian politics, he ousted French colonialism then overthrew the Khmer Rouge regime. He shaped the political and economic landscape in Cambodia us……続きを見る

Bad Lieutenants is a riveting account of how the Khmer Rouge remained a force to be reckoned with even after the fall of Democratic Kampucheaーand of the men behind the movement's strange durability……続きを見る

INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER AUTHOR War in Our Wake: The Untold Story of the Last American Military Presence of the Vietnam War by Jonathan Malay Step aboard the USS Benjamin Stoddert (DDG-22) and disc……続きを見る

In Motherless Tongues, Vicente L. Rafael examines the vexed relationship between language and history gleaned from the workings of translation in the Philippines, the United States, and beyond. Movi……続きを見る

In The Promise of the Foreign, Vicente L. Rafael argues that translation was key to the emergence of Filipino nationalism in the nineteenth century. Acts of translation entailed technics from which ……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

In a tour-de-force study of sixty years of cinematic entertainment, Silver Screens and Golden Dreams traces the veins of Burmese popular movies across three periods in history: the colonial era, the……続きを見る

In "Cacao Culture in the Philippines," William Scrugham Lyon presents a comprehensive exploration of the cacao industry in the archipelago, illuminating its agricultural practices, economic implicat……続きを見る

Despite its 3,000 kilometre coastline, few people see Vietnam as a maritime country. Here Li Tana presents a powerful new argument about Vietnamese history: that key political changes resulted from ……続きを見る

「家的所在，即是認同所在。」 意想不到的隱藏版越南／臺灣史！ 大歷史下，最親近你我，生猛有活力的小歷史。 他們是你的老師、同學、朋友、鄰居， 你認識他們，卻從來不真正了解。 政治大學「興隆安康．共好文山……続きを見る

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Waterstones and TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR A SPECTATOR and History Today BOOK OF THE YEAR A revolutionary new history of the diffusion of Indian ideas, from……続きを見る

El libro "Proceso del Dr. José Rizal Mercado y Alonso", escrito por Epifanio de los Santos Cristobal, es un estudio detallado sobre el juicio y la condena del héroe nacional filipino José Rizal. En ……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

When Japanese planes laid waste to Pearl Harbor on the morning of December 7, 1941, the United States had just one air combat unit on the continent of Asia. That was the 1st American Volunteer Group……続きを見る

Hindsight is the lowest form of intelligence–except for historians. In this handy collection of Ambeth Ocampo's "Looking Back" column pieces, the popular historian digs deep and looks back carefully……続きを見る

**Winner of the 2024 EuroSEAS Social Science Book Prize Cold War legacies in Southeast Asia enable new geographies of enclosure** In the twenty-first century, land deals in the Global South have bec……続きを見る

封面故事 53期《觀‧台灣》以學術書的誕生為起點，在〈如何做一本歷史書〉專訪臺大出版中心湯世鑄總編輯與八旗文化主編邱建智，看編輯們如何揀選好書，再以技藝與眼力打磨最高品質；〈關於臺灣研究，大家在讀什麼書……続きを見る

In this book, besides offering the usual juicy titbits, he looks back not just at our history but also on his life as an historian, this book being written for his 50th birthday. His introduction al……続きを見る

The cause of history writing owes Ambeth Ocampo a great deal. By his extraordinary use of a relatively new genre, he has rescued history from the cold, forbidding halls of academe. He has made of hi……続きを見る