A History of Southeast Asia, Paperback

As a continent lying to the east of Europe, Asia has been malleable to different spatial and temporal imaginations and politics. Recent scholarship...

This third edition of Ira M. Lapidus's classic A History of Islamic Societies has been substantially revised to incorporate the new scholarship and...

Reducere. This volume seeks to foreground a "borderless" history and geography of South, Southeast, and East Asian littoral zones that would be maritime-focu...

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The central issues discussed in this new collected work in the highly successful ancient textiles series are the relationships between fiber resour...

Reducere. Existing textbooks on international relations treat history in a cursory fashion and perpetuate a Euro-centric perspective. This textbook pioneers ...

Reducere. As European colonies in Asia and Africa became independent nations, as the United States engaged in war in Southeast Asia and in covert operations ...

Reducere. Dating back to the nineteenth-century transplantation of a latex-producing tree from the Amazon to Southeast Asia, rubber production has wrought mo...

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Reducere. After the US war in Vietnam, close to 800, 000 Vietnamese left the country by boat, survived, and sought refuge throughout Southeast Asia and the P...

A Samaritan State Revisited brings together a refreshing group of emerging and leading scholars to reflect on the history of Canada's overseas deve...

Reducere. Existing textbooks on international relations treat history in a cursory fashion and perpetuate a Euro-centric perspective. This textbook pioneers ...

Conversion to Islam is a phenomenon of immense significance in human history. At the outset of Islamic rule in the seventh century, Muslims constit...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Nicole CuratoA critical analysis of one of the most media-savvy authoritarian rulers of our time, this collection of essays...

Reducere. During the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, countless slaves from culturally diverse communities in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast ...

Reducere. The archaeological site of Bagan and the kingdom which bore its name contains one of the greatest concentrations of ancient architecture and art in...

DescriptionHow might understandings of environmentalism and the environmental humanities shift by incorporating Islamic perspectives? In this book,...

Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz reconnects the Philippine Revolution to the histories of Southeast and East Asia through an innovative consideration of it...

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Reducere. "The Mahabharata" is the more recent of India's two great epics, and by far the longer. First composed by the Maharishi Vyasa in verse, it has come...

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Reducere. Fifty Years in the Karen Revolution in Burma is about commitment to an ideal, individual survival and the universality of the human experience. A m...

Reducere. In 1972, America was completing its withdrawal from the long and divisive war in Vietnam. Air power covered the departure of ground forces, and sea...

Reducere. 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 ...

Sufism: A Global History is a unique account of global Sufism, tracing the gradual spread and adaptation of Sufi Islam through the Middle East into...

A History of Southeast Asia: Critical Crossroads presents a comprehensive history of Southeast Asia from our earliest knowledge of its civilization...

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Reducere. Rethinking exhibition practices and histories in China and Southeast Asia.This book is the result of various ongoing assembly platforms linked toge...

Reducere. The Mahabharata is the more recent of India's two great epics, and by far the longer. First composed by the Maharishi Vyasa in verse, it has come d...

Reducere. The Khmers of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries are best remembered by the magnificent monuments that they left the world--the ruins of Angkor W...

Reducere. For over 400 years, Taiwan has suffered at the hands of multiple colonial powers, but it has now entered the decade when its independence will be w...

Reducere. The second part of H. P. Willmott's three-volume history of the war in the Pacific, this work tells how Japan arrived at a situation in which war w...

The Silent Warriors of the U.S. Air Force Security Service, the "back-enders" on SAC's Hognose RC-135 reconnaissance planes, had quietly been in al...

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Reducere. Performing Power illuminates how colonial dominance in Indonesia was legitimized, maintained, negotiated, and contested through the everyday stagin...

Reducere. With a new preface by the authors, this companion book to The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism, dissects the aftermath of the war in S...

Despite competing with much larger imperialist neighbors in Southeast Asia, the Kingdom of Thailand--or Siam, as it was formerly known--has succeed...

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DescriptionThe photos in this edition are black and white.MiG Killers: A Chronology of U.S. Air Victories in Vietnam 1965-1973 tells the dramatic s...

Countering notions that Hmong history begins and ends with the "Secret War" in Laos of the 1960s and 1970s, Dreams of the Hmong Kingdom reveals how...

Reducere. The photos in this edition are black and white. Some aircraft deserve a measure of homage based on their aesthetics; others rate merit for longevit...

In 1970, the small nation of Cambodia was sucked into the vortex of Cold War geopolitics, a war whose denouement led to one of the worst bloodbaths...

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Elephants have captivated the human imagination for as long as they have roamed the earth, appearing in writings and cultures from thousands of yea...

Reducere. Few politicians in our history have had the emotional impact of Joe McCarthy and acclaimed historian David Oshinsky's chronicling of his life has b...

Reducere. Description"Shelby Stanton has emerged as the leading military historian on the war in Southest Asia."COL. CHARLES B. MacDONALDAuthor of COMPANY CO...

Reducere. Spoken by over 95 million people worldwide, Vietnamese has emerged as a prominent language in the fields of business, culture and history in Southe...

If you want to discover the captivating history of India, then keep reading...Three captivating manuscripts in one book: History of India: A Captiv...

Born of humble roots to working class parents and raised in a section of Atlanta, Georgia, referred to as "Cabbagetown" until the age of six, Tommy...

Reducere. A groundbreaking exploration of a practice tradition that was nearly lost to history. Theravada Buddhism, often understood as the school that most ...

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Reducere. The great Indian epic rendered in modern proseIndia's most beloved and enduring legend, the Ramayana is widely acknowledged to be one of the world'...

Reducere. One Trip Too Many, A Pilot's Memoirs of 38 Months in Combat over Laos and Vietnam, is an autobiography about my life as a pilot in Southeast Asia d...

Reducere. "The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Was...

Reducere. Description In 1964, I embarked on a journey that was to be my life's adventure. I hired on as a pilot for Air America and its clandestine operatio...

Reducere. This compact and accessible biography critically assesses the life and career of Dean Acheson, one of America's foremost diplomats and strategists....

In its history since Independence, India has seen widely different economic experiments: from Jawharlal Nehru's pragmatism to the rigid state socia...

With separate workbooks for reading practice and writing practice, these texts are useful tools for learning the Thai language. The reading section...

With separate workbooks for reading practice and writing practice, these texts are useful tools for learning the Thai language. The reading section...

Reducere. William Powell wrote The Anarchist Cookbook in 1969 at the age of nineteen. It included everything from making bombs to brewing LSD in the bathroom...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: David Seiwert The karambit has become extremely popular in recent years, spread by practitioners of Southeast Asian martial...

Everyone knows the end, but do you know the beginning? It was the war before the war. A time when America needed allies in Southeast Asia to defeat...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of Thailand, then keep reading...Did you know that Thailand is the only country in Southeast Asia t...

For six decades, the 7.62mm FN MAG has been a dominant general-purpose machine gun (GPMG) in worldwide arsenals. Three qualities have guaranteed th...

Reducere. Historically, the Vietnam War is the longest, largest and most complex colonial wars. During the war, the North and South Vietnam fought each other...

Reducere. Now in its seventh printing The memoir of a woman whose strength, courage, and intelligence had a profound impact on Vietnamese history. Not simply...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading The Khmer Empire, a...

Reducere. A Short World History of Black People in Ancient Times, provides a history of the numerous Black and African civilizations that existed between 60,...