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  • Colonial Armies in Southeast Asia

    Edited by Tobias Rettig, Karl Hack ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    Colonial armies were the focal points for some of the most dramatic tensions inherent in Chinese, Japanese and Western clashes with Southeast Asia. The international team of scholars take the reader on a compelling exploration from Ming China to the present day, examining their conquests, management and decolonization.The journey covers perennial themes such as the recruitment, loyalty, and varied ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

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  • Fire in the Lake

    The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam

    by Frances FitzGerald ...
    A "compassionate and penetrating" landmark history of Vietnam and the Vietnam War ( New York Times Book Review)."Fitzgerald's Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning study of the Vietnam War remains essential reading thirty years after its initial publication." — Library JournalThis magisterial work, based on Frances FitzGerald's many years of research and travels, takes us inside the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • A History of Modern Indonesia

    by Adrian Vickers ...
    Since the Bali bombings of 2002 and the rise of political Islam, Indonesia has frequently occupied media headlines. Nevertheless, the history of the fourth largest country on earth remains relatively unknown. Adrian Vickers' book, first published in 2005, traces the history of an island country, comprising some 240 million people, from the colonial period through revolution and independence to the ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • What's In The Name? How The Streets And Villages In Singapore Got Their Names

    by Yew Peng Ng ...
    Since 1819, more than 6,200 place (street and village) names divided into more than 3,900 name groups were known in Singapore. Based on digitised historical newspapers, dated back to 1830, municipal records and Malay dictionaries, the origins, meanings and date of naming for many place names are uncovered. As part of Singapore history, place names known since 1936 are recorded in this book ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Origins of Ancient Vietnam

    by Nam C. Kim ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in the Archaeology of Ancient States
    The Origins of Ancient Vietnam explores the origins of civilization in the Red River Delta of Vietnam and how related studies can inform our understanding of ancient societies, generally, and the foundations of Vietnamese culture, specifically. Long believed to be the cradle of Vietnamese civilization, this area has been referenced by Vietnamese and Chinese writers for centuries, many recording ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • A History of Ayutthaya

    Siam in the Early Modern World

    by Chris Baker, Pasuk Phongpaichit ...
    Early European visitors placed Ayutthaya alongside China and India as the great powers of Asia. Yet in 1767 the city was destroyed and its history has been neglected. This book is the first study of Ayutthaya from its emergence in the thirteenth century until its fall. It offers a wide-ranging view of social, political, and cultural history with focus on commerce, kingship, Buddhism, and war. By ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Education-at-large: Student Life And Activities In Singapore 1945-1965

    by Siao See Teng, Cheow Thia Chan, Huay Leng Lee ...
    The first part of the book contains documentation of a groundbreaking exhibition held in 2007 on student activities and societal engagements during post-war Singapore 1945-1965 and transcripts of forums held in conjunction with it. The second half centres on oral history accounts of mostly former Chinese school students who shared about their social, cultural and political activities in complex ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • The Longest Journey

    Southeast Asians and the Pilgrimage to Mecca

    by Eric Tagliacozzo ...
    The pilgrimage to Mecca, or Hajj, has been a yearly phenomenon of great importance in Muslim lands for well over one thousand years. Each year, millions of pilgrims from throughout the Dar al-Islam, or Islamic world, stretching from Morocco east to Indonesia, make the trip to Mecca as one of the five pillars of their faith. By the end of the nineteenth century, and the beginning of the twentieth, ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Singapore

    Unlikely Power

    by John Curtis Perry ...
    Singapore has gained a reputation for being one of the wealthiest and best-educated countries in the world and one of the brightest success stories for a colony-turned-sovereign state, but the country's path to success was anything but assured. Its strategic location and natural resources both allowed Singapore to profit from global commerce and also made the island an attractive conquest for the ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Women of the Kakawin World

    Marriage and Sexuality in the Indic Courts of Java and Bali

    by Helen Creese ...
    In this fascinating study the lives and mores of women in one of the least understood but most densely populated areas of the world are unveiled through the eyes of generations of court poets. For more than a millennium, the poets of the Indic courts of Java and Bali composed epic kakawin poems in which they recreated the court environment where they and their royal patrons lived. Major themes in ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • World War One in Southeast Asia

    Colonialism and Anticolonialism in an Era of Global Conflict

    by Heather Streets-Salter ...
    Although not a major player during the course of the First World War, Southeast Asia was in fact altered by the war in multiple and profound ways. Ranging across British Malaya, the Dutch East Indies, and French Indochina, Heather Streets-Salter reveals how the war shaped the region's political, economic, and social development both during 1914–18 and in the war's aftermath. She shows how the ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Colonial Cambodia's 'Bad Frenchmen'

    The rise of French rule and the life of Thomas Caraman, 1840-87

    by Gregor Muller ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    Colonial Cambodia's "Bad Frenchmen" provides a captivating analysis of the gradual establishment of French colonialism in the late nineteenth century. Drawing on new materials from French, Vietnamese and Cambodian archives, it reconstructs a time during which France struggled to give meaning and substance to its Protectorate over Cambodia.It traces the lives of failed colonists – most notably ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD