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Ambeth Ocampo always makes historical figures come alive, blemishes and all, and with his curious eye, make our heroes very human and not the mythic figures that we want to make of them. [He] makes ……続きを見る

In these beguiling essays on what lies beyond the fringes of Philippine recorded historyーwhether pointing out the laughing carabao on the margins of a centuries-old map, or combing for shards of Mi……続きを見る

This gripping classic from R.M. Ballantyne tells the story of the eruption of Mt. Krakatau in 1883 which killed more than 36, 000 people. 続きを見る

Singapore Correspondent is a collection of eye-witness dispatches, sent from Singapore to London, of five years of Singapore’s colourful political past. They cover a period of living turbulently and……続きを見る

In 2012, the Communist Party of China (CPC) inaugurated the Xi Jinping era when it elected him to be the General Secretary of the CPC. The following year Xi was elected President of the People’s Rep……続きを見る

This novel describes love story in old Java amid political conflict between Java and another overseas kingdom. There is vivid description of military and political conflict. This novel is written in……続きを見る

During the Second World War, the Japanese took control of the Philippines, driving the United States forces from the Islands. While in control, the Japanese confiscated and stockpiled immense amount……続きを見る

In this fully updated 4th edition of his ever-popular Crossroads, Jim Baker adds new analysis following the watershed 2018 general elections in Malaysia and reviews the policies and impact of the ne……続きを見る

Ambeth Ocampo on the inspiration behind this collection of essays: “Chulalongkorn’s elephants are the bronze elephants the King of Siam gave to Singapore and Java as gifts during his travels in 1871……続きを見る

The Second World War catapulted more than 70,000 young Australians into a war in Indonesia in mid-1945. More than sixty years later the questions remain about why Australians were ever involved, and……続きを見る

A short narrative of the horrible events that transpired when Typhoon Haiyan struck Leyte in 2013. 続きを見る

« L'Empire khmer : à la découverte de l'Âge d'Angkor" est un voyage captivant à travers l'histoire et la culture d'une civilisation légendaire. Plongez dans les mystères de l'Empire khmer, dont les ……続きを見る

Buddhist-Inflected Sovereignties across the Indian Ocean draws attention to the varied, historically contingent, and sometimes competing, arguments for and about sovereignty that operated in the Pal……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

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

More than forty years have passed since the official end of the Vietnam War, yet the war’s legacies endure. Its history and iconography still provide fodder for film and fiction, communities of war ……続きを見る

This study offers a new approach to the history of sites, archaeology, and heritage formation in Asia, at both the local and the trans-regional levels. Starting at Hindu-Buddhist, Chinese, Islamic, ……続きを見る

This first in-depth piece of reportage about the largest natural resource heist in Asia reveals Myanmar's world of secret-keepers and truth-tellers. In Myanmar, where civil war, repressive governmen……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

Lukban, the book This book is about one of Aguinaldo’s intrepid generals, Vicente Rilles Lukban, and how he waged guerrilla war in the island of Samar, the country’s third largest island. Neither Ag……続きを見る

The Evacuation of Singapore to the Prison Camps of Sumatra aims to describe the events prior to, during and after the Fall of Singapore and the ways in which former prisoners are remembered on Bangk……続きを見る