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31 produkter
Saving Buddhism
The Impermanence of Religion in Colonial Burma
Av Alicia Turner, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
300 kr
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Saving Buddhism explores the dissonance between the goals of the colonial state and the Buddhist worldview that animated Burmese Buddhism at the turn of the twentieth century. For many Burmese, the salient and ordering discourse was not nation or modernity but sasana, the life of the Buddha’s …
In Search of South East Asia
A Modern History
Av David P. Chandler, David Joel Steinberg m. fl.
Häftad, 1988
385 kr
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Tragedy of Cambodian History
Politics, War, and Revolution since 1945
Häftad, 1993
657 kr
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The political history of Cambodia between 1945 and 1979, which culminated in the devastating revolutionary excesses of the Pol Pot regime, is one of unrest and misery. This book by David P. Chandler is the first to give a full account of this tumultuous period. Drawing on his experience as a …
Brother Number One
A Political Biography Of Pol Pot
Inbunden, 2019
2512 kr
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In the tragic recent history of Cambodia?a past scarred by a long occupation by Vietnamese forces and by the preceding three-year reign of terror by the brutal Khmer Rouge?no figure looms larger or more ominously than that of Pol Pot. As secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of …
Brother Number One
A Political Biography Of Pol Pot
E-bok, 2018
827 kr
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"Excellent and absorbing.... Indispensable to any attempt to understand the Khmer Rouge." -William Shawcross New York Review of Books "A dramatic account of Pol Pot''s rise to power in 1975 and his direction of Cambodia''s autogenocide.... David Chandler has given us an absorbing and authoritative …
Brother Number One
A Political Biography Of Pol Pot
E-bok, 2018
827 kr
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"Excellent and absorbing.... Indispensable to any attempt to understand the Khmer Rouge." -William Shawcross New York Review of Books "A dramatic account of Pol Pot''s rise to power in 1975 and his direction of Cambodia''s autogenocide.... David Chandler has given us an absorbing and authoritative …
Khmers
Av Ian Mabbett, David P. Chandler
Inbunden, 1995
569 kr
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This is a history of the Khmers, the people who for thousands of years inhabited the wooded interior of Cambodia. One hundred and fifty years ago the representatives of imperial France were astonished to find half-buried within the jungle the still magnificent ruins of vast temples. Justly …
Brother Number One
A Political Biography Of Pol Pot
Häftad, 1999
796 kr
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In the tragic recent history of Cambodia,a past scarred by a long occupation by Vietnamese forces and by the preceding three-year reign of terror by the brutal Khmer Rouge,no figure looms larger or more ominously than that of Pol Pot. As secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of …
Emergence of Modern Southeast Asia
A New History
Av David P. Chandler, Norman G. Owen
Häftad, 2004
396 kr
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The modern states of Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore, Cambodia, Laos, Brunei, and East Timor were once a tapestry of kingdoms, colonies, and smaller polities linked by sporadic trade and occasional war. By the end of the nineteenth century, however, the …
Natural Potency and Political Power
Forests and State Authority in Contemporary Laos
Av Sarinda Singh, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
511 kr
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Perfect Business?
Anti-Trafficking and the Sex Trade Along the Mekong
Av Sverre Molland, David P. Chandler
Inbunden, 2012
697 kr
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For those at the high end of the trafficking chain, the sex trade is an alluring and lucrative business: the supply of girls is constant, the costs of operations are low, and interference from law enforcement is weak to non-existent. Anti-trafficking organisations and governments commonly …
Forest of Struggle
Moralities of Remembrance in Upland Cambodia
Av Eve Monique Zucker, David P. Chandler
Inbunden, 2013
657 kr
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In a village community in the highlands of Cambodia’s Southwest, people struggle to rebuild their lives after nearly thirty years of war and genocide. Recovery is a tenuous process as villagers attempt to shape a future while contending with the terrible rupture of the Pol Pot era. Forest of …
Potent Landscapes
Place and Mobility in Eastern Indonesia
Av Catherine Allerton, David P. Chandler
Inbunden, 2013
629 kr
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The Manggarai people of eastern Indonesia believe their land can talk, that its appetite demands sacrificial ritual, and that its energy can kill as well as nurture. They tell their children to avoid certain streams and fields and view unusual environmental events as omens of misfortune. Yet, far …
Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race in Traditional Indonesia
Av L. Ayu Saraswati, David P. Chandler
Inbunden, 2013
600 kr
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In Indonesia, light skin colour has been desirable throughout recorded history. Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race explores Indonesia’s changing beauty ideals and traces them to a number of influences: first to ninth-century India and some of the oldest surviving Indonesian literary works; then, a …
Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race in Traditional Indonesia
Av L. Ayu Saraswati, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
273 kr
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In Indonesia, light skin colour has been desirable throughout recorded history. Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race explores Indonesia’s changing beauty ideals and traces them to a number of influences: first to ninth-century India and some of the oldest surviving Indonesian literary works; then, a …
Potent Landscapes
Place and Mobility in Eastern Indonesia
Av Catherine Allerton, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
273 kr
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The Manggarai people of eastern Indonesia believe their land can talk, that its appetite demands sacrificial ritual, and that its energy can kill as well as nurture. They tell their children to avoid certain streams and fields and view unusual environmental events as omens of misfortune. Yet, far …
Forest of Struggle
Moralities of Remembrance in Upland Cambodia
Av Eve Monique Zucker, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
310 kr
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In a village community in the highlands of Cambodia’s Southwest, people struggle to rebuild their lives after nearly thirty years of war and genocide. Recovery is a tenuous process as villagers attempt to shape a future while contending with the terrible rupture of the Pol Pot era. Forest of …
Lost Territories
Thailand's History of National Humiliation
Av Shane Strate, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
613 kr
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It is a cherished belief among Thai people that their country was never colonized. Yet politicians, scholars, and other media fi gures chronically inveigh against Western colonialism and the imperialist theft of Thai territory. Thai historians insist that the country adapted to the …
Ghosts of the New City
Spirits, Urbanity, and the Runs of Progress in Chiang Mai
Av Andrew Alan Johnson, David P. Chandler
Inbunden, 2014
629 kr
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Chiang Mai (literally, “new city”) suffered badly in the 1997 Asian financial crisis as the Northern Thai real estate bubble collapsed along with the Thai baht, crushing dreams of a renaissance of Northern prosperity. Years later, the ruins of the excesses of the 1990s still stain the skyline. In …
Ghosts of the New City
Spirits, Urbanity, and the Runs of Progress in Chiang Mai
Av Andrew Alan Johnson, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
285 kr
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Chiang Mai (literally, “new city”) suffered badly in the 1997 Asian financial crisis as the Northern Thai real estate bubble collapsed along with the Thai baht, crushing dreams of a renaissance of Northern prosperity. Years later, the ruins of the excesses of the 1990s still stain the skyline. In …
Essential Trade
Vietnamese Women in a Changing Marketplace
Av Ann Marie Leshkowich, David P. Chandler
Inbunden, 2014
629 kr
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“My husband doesn’t have a head for business,” complained Ngoc, the owner of a children’s clothing stall in Bȇn Thành market. “Naturally, it’s because he’s a man.” When the women who sell in Ho Chi Minh City’s iconic marketplace speak, their language suggests that activity in the market is shaped …
Essential Trade
Vietnamese Women in a Changing Marketplace
Av Ann Marie Leshkowich, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
273 kr
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“My husband doesn’t have a head for business,” complained Ngoc, the owner of a children’s clothing stall in Bȇn Thành market. “Naturally, it’s because he’s a man.” When the women who sell in Ho Chi Minh City’s iconic marketplace speak, their language suggests that activity in the market is shaped …
Traces of Trauma
Cambodian Visual Culture and National Identity in the Aftermath of Genocide
Av Boreth Ly, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
930 kr
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How do the people of a morally shattered culture and nation find ways to go on living? Cambodians confronted this challenge following the collective disasters of the American bombing, the civil war, and the Khmer Rouge genocide. The magnitude of violence and human loss, the execution of artists and …
In Pursuit of Progress
Narratives of Development on a Philippine Island
Av Hannah C. M. Bulloch, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
903 kr
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How are meta-narratives of development entangled in people’s identities and life trajectories? How do they inhabit people’s histories, their understandings of their place in the world, and their dreams for the future? The idea of development has been deconstructed and scrutinized as a “Western” …
In Pursuit of Progress
Narratives of Development on a Philippine Island
Av Hannah C. M. Bulloch, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
273 kr
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How are meta-narratives of development entangled in people’s identities and life trajectories? How do they inhabit people’s histories, their understandings of their place in the world, and their dreams for the future? The idea of development has been deconstructed and scrutinized as a “Western” …
Uprooted
Race, Children, and Imperialism in French Indochina, 1890-1980
Av Christina Elizabeth Firpo, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
310 kr
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For over a century French officials in Indochina systematically uprooted métis children—those born of Southeast Asian mothers and white, African, or Indian fathers—from their homes. In many cases, and for a wide range of reasons—death, divorce, the end of a romance, a return to France, or because …
Caged in on the Outside
Moral Subjectivity, Selfhood, and Islam in Minangkabau, Indonesia
Av Gregory M. Simon, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
301 kr
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Caged in on the Outside is an intimate ethnographic exploration of the ways in which Minangkabau people understand human value. Minangkabau, an Islamic society in Indonesia that is also the largest matrilineal society in the world, has long fascinated anthropologists. Gregory Simon’s book, based on …
Familial Properties
Gender, State, and Society in Early Modern Vietnam, 1463–1778
Av Nhung Tuyet Tran, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
310 kr
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Familial Properties is the first full-length history of Vietnamese gender relations in the precolonial period. Author Nhung Tuyet Tran shows how, despite the bias in law and practice of a patrilineal society based on primogeniture, some women were able to manipulate the system to their own …
Traces of Trauma
Cambodian Visual Culture and National Identity in the Aftermath of Genocide
Av Boreth Ly, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
353 kr
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How do the people of a morally shattered culture and nation find ways to go on living? Cambodians confronted this challenge following the collective disasters of the American bombing, the civil war, and the Khmer Rouge genocide. The magnitude of violence and human loss, the execution of artists and …
Lost Territories
Thailand's History of National Humiliation
Av Shane Strate, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
310 kr
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It is a cherished belief among Thai people that their country was never colonized. Yet politicians, scholars, and other media figures chronically inveigh against Western colonialism and the imperialist theft of Thai territory. Thai historians insist that the country adapted to the Western-dominated …
