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  • Turbulent Times and Enduring Peoples

    Mountain Minorities in the South-East Asian Massif

    de Jean Michaud, Jan Ovesen ...
    Scattered across the South-East Asian massif, a few dozen ethnic groups (numbering around 50 million) maintain highly original cultural identities and political and economic traditions, against pressure from national majorities. They face the same challenges. The means by which social change has been imposed by the lowlanders are similar from country to country, and the results are comparable. The ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

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  • The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia

    de James C. Scott ...
    For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the organized state societies that surround them—slavery, conscription, taxes, corvée labor, epidemics, and warfare. This book, essentially an “anarchist history,” is the first-ever examination of the huge ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • A Short History of South-East Asia

    Edición de Peter Church ...
    The success of the first four editions shows that this book fills a vacuum for readers who wish to learn about the countries of South-East Asia. Recent years have seen a number of important developments all of which are covered here. With the global climate becoming more uncertain and the threat of terrorism spilling over, this book will aid readers' knowledge of this region by addressing its ... Leer más

    $15.00 USD

  • The Mekong

    Turbulent Past, Uncertain Future

    de Milton Osborne ...
    A "remarkable" history of the great river of Southeast Asia ( Jill Ker Conway, author of The Road from Coorain).The Mekong River runs over nearly three thousand miles, beginning in the mountains of Tibet and flowing through China, Burma, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam before emptying into the China Sea. Its waters are the lifeblood of Southeast Asia, and first begot civilization on the ... Leer más

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  • A Short History of Laos

    The land in between

    de Grant Evans ...
    Laos, perhaps the least known country in mainland Southeast Asia, stands at the region's crossroads. This small 'land in between' is surrounded by China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Burma-countries that, in pre-modern times, provided Lao kings with a field for territorial expansion. But more often, Laos has been a bridge between these powerful neighbours, and an arena in which they and their ... Leer más

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  • Mekong

    de Milton Osborne ...
    The Mekong is one of the world's great rivers, and by far the largest in Southeast Asia. Flowing through or beside no less than six countries - China, Burma, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam - the Mekong River has a rich and often turbulent history and has played a vital, if changing, role in the politics and economies of these countries.; The Mekong is one of the world's great rivers, and by ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • A Short History of China and Southeast Asia

    Tribute, Trade and Influence

    de Martin Stuart-Fox ...
    China, the world's most populous nation, has always exerted great influence on the traditional kingdoms and modern states of Southeast Asia. Today, history and culture continue to shape the modern relationship.In this concise volume, Martin Stuart-Fox charts the history of relations between China and Southeast Asia across two millennia, examining patterns of diplomacy, commercial networks, and ... Leer más

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  • A History of Myanmar since Ancient Times

    Traditions and Transformations

    de Michael Aung-Thwin, Maitrii Aung-Thwin ...
    The Republic of the Union of Myanmar, known amongst English speakers as Burma, is often characterized as a place of repressive military rule, civil war, censorship and corrupt elections – and despite recent attempts to promote tourism to this little-known country, few people visit this region of Asia.In A History of Myanmar since Ancient Times, Michael Aung-Thwin and Maitrii Aung-Thwin take us ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • A History of Southeast Asia

    Critical Crossroads

    de Anthony Reid ...
    Series series Blackwell History of the World
    2016 PROSE Award Honorable Mention for Textbook in the HumanitiesA History of Southeast Asia: Critical Crossroads presents a comprehensive history of Southeast Asia from our earliest knowledge of its civilizations and religious patterns up to the present day.Incorporates environmental, social, economic, and gender issues to tell a multi-dimensional story of Southeast Asian history from earliest ... Leer más

    $36.00 USD

  • Viet Nam

    A History from Earliest Times to the Present

    de Ben Kiernan ...
    For many Westerners, the name Vietnam evokes images of a bloody televised American war that generated a firestorm of protest and brought conflict into their living rooms. In his sweeping account, Ben Kiernan broadens this vision by narrating the rich history of the peoples who have inhabited the land now known as Viet Nam over the past three thousand years. Despite the tragedies of the American ... Leer más

    $23.79 USD

  • Southeast Asia

    A Very Short Introduction

    de James R. Rush ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The eleven countries of Southeast Asia are diverse in every way, from the ethnicities and religions of their residents to their political systems and levels of prosperity. These nations--Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore, the Philippines, Laos, Cambodia, Brunei, and East Timor--are each undeniably unique, yet the vestiges of their shared traditions mean that each country ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Security and Sustainable Development in Myanmar

    de Helen James ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    Helen James considers security in Myanmar/Burma. She uses the ideas put forward in the United Nations Development Programme's 1994 report, of human, as opposed to state and security, going on to argue that freedom from want, and freedom from fear (of the regime) are in fact mutually supportive ideas, and that the security of the people and the security of the state are in fact in a symbiotic ... Leer más

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