New Perspectives in SE Asian Studies – serie
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13 produkter
Deeper Ground, Darker Shadows
The Making of a Mindanao Rebel
Inbunden, 2025
964 kr
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Deeper Ground, Darker Shadows is the memoir of Eddie L. Quitoriano, who grew up in a rural part of the Philippine island of Mindanao and eventually became one of the top organizers of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and commander of the party’s New People’s Army (NPA). Coming to …
Vietnam's Strategic Thinking During the Third Indochina War
Av Kosal Path
Häftad, 2023
326 kr
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When costly efforts to cement a strategic partnership with the Soviet Union failed, the combined political pressure of economic crisis at home and imminent external threats posed by a Sino-Cambodian alliance compelled Hanoi to reverse course. Moving away from the Marxist-Leninist ideology that had …
Everyday Economic Survival in Myanmar
Häftad, 2022
341 kr
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Reforms in Myanmar (formerly Burma) have eased restrictions on citizens' political activities. Yet for most Burmese, Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung shows, eking out a living from day to day leaves little time for civic engagement. Citizens have coped with extreme hardship through great resourcefulness. …
Philippine Sanctuary
A Holocaust Odyssey
Häftad, 2022
283 kr
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During World War II, the United States government and many Western democracies limited or closed themselves off entirely to Jewish refugees. By contrast, a Pacific island nation decided to keep its doors open. Between 1938 and 1941, the Philippine Commonwealth provided safe asylum to more than …
Royal Capitalism
Wealth, Class, and Monarchy in Thailand
Häftad, 2022
297 kr
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Thanks to its active role in national politics, the market economy, and popular culture, the Thai crown remains both the country's dominant institution and one of the world's wealthiest monarchies. Puangchon Unchanam examines the reign of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej or Rama IX (1946–2016) …
Rise of the Brao
Ethnic Minorities in Northeastern Cambodia During Vietnamese Occupation
Av Ian G. Baird
Häftad, 2022
297 kr
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In the early 1970s, the Khmer Rouge had become suspicious of communist Vietnam and began to persecute Cambodian ethnic groups who had ties to the country, including the Brao Amba in the northeast. Many fled north as political refugees, and some joined the Vietnamese effort to depose the Khmer Rouge …
Dynastic Democracy
Political Families of Thailand
Inbunden, 2022
935 kr
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The political history of Thailand since the overthrow of absolute monarchy in 1932 has conventionally been interpreted as a long series of popular struggles for representative democracy and against military authoritarian rule. Yoshinori Nishizaki argues that this history can be better understood as …
Dynastic Democracy
Political Families of Thailand
Häftad, 2025
370 kr
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Since the overthrow of absolute monarchy in 1932, Thailand’s political history has conventionally been interpreted as a long series of popular struggles for representative democracy and against authoritarian military rule. Yoshinori Nishizaki proposes that this history be understood as a continual …
Electrifying Indonesia
Technology and Social Justice in National Development
Av Anto Mohsin
Inbunden, 2023
935 kr
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Electrifying Indonesia tells the story of the entanglement of politics and technology during Indonesia’s rapid post–World War II development. As a central part of its nation-building project, the Indonesian state sought to supply electricity to the entire country, bringing transformative …
Electrifying Indonesia
Technology and Social Justice in National Development
Av Anto Mohsin
Häftad, 2025
312 kr
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Electrifying Indonesia tells the story of the entanglement of politics and technology during Indonesia’s rapid post–World War II development. As a central part of its nation-building project, the Indonesian state sought to supply electricity to the entire country, bringing transformative …
Forsaken Causes
Liberal Democracy and Anticommunism in Cold War Laos
Inbunden, 2024
1052 kr
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Postcolonial and post–World War II Southeast Asia churned with new political, social, and cultural realities and possibilities. Liberal democracies flourished briefly, only to be discarded in favor of dictatorships and other authoritarian regimes, as the disorder and slow response times inherent to …
Champassak Royalty and Sovereignty
Within and Between Nation-States in Mainland Southeast Asia
Av Ian G. Baird
Inbunden, 2024
935 kr
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The Kingdom of Champassak was founded in 1713 in what is now southern Laos, and its royal lineage, the House of Champassak, continues to the present. In this first historical study of Champassak, Ian Baird explores the ways it has asserted its sovereignty across time and through monumental …
Viet Nam
Borderless Histories
Av Phan Huy Le, Insun Yu m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
754 kr
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Moving beyond past histories of Viet Nam that have focused on nationalist struggle, this volume brings together work by scholars who are re-examining centuries of Vietnamese history. Crossing borders and exploring ambiguities, the essays in "Viet Nam: Borderless Histories" draw on international …
