New Perspectives in Southeast Asian Studies – serie
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Pretext for Mass Murder
The September 30th Movement and Suharto's Coup D'etat in Indonesia
Av John Roosa
Häftad, 2006
269 kr
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In the early morning hours of October 1, 1965, a group calling itself the September 30th Movement kidnapped and executed six generals of the Indonesian army, including its highest commander. The group claimed that it was attempting to preempt a coup, but it was quickly defeated as the senior …
Social World of Batavia
Europeans and Eurasians in Colonial Indonesia
Häftad, 2009
342 kr
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In the seventeenth century, the Dutch established a trading base at the Indonesian site of Jacarta. What began as a minor colonial outpost under the name Batavia would become, over the next three centuries, the flourishing economic and political nucleus of the Dutch Asian Empire. In this pioneering …
Hispanization of the Philippines
Spanish Aims and Filippino Responses, 1565-1700
Häftad, 2010
298 kr
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After conquest of the Philippine archipelago in the late sixteenth century, Spanish colonizers launched a sweeping social program designed to bring about dramatic religious, political, and economic changes. But the limitations of Spanish colonial resources, together with the reactions of Filipinos …
Viet Nam
Borderless Histories
Av Phan Huy Le, Insun Yu m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
298 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 …
From Rebellion to Riots
Collective Violence on Indonesian Borneo
Av Jamie Davidson, Alfred W. McCoy
Häftad, 2008
275 kr
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From Rebellion to Riots is a critical analysis of the roots of contemporary violence in one of Indonesia's most ethnically heterogeneous provinces, West Kalimantan. Since the late 1960s, this province has suffered periodic outbreaks of ethnic violence among its Dayak, Malay, Madurese, and ethnic …
Anarchy of Families
State and Family in the Philippines
Häftad, 2009
332 kr
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Winner of the Philippine National Book Award, this pioneering volume reveals how the power of Filipino family-based oligarchies both derives from and contributes to a weak, corrupt state. From provincial warlords to modern managers, prominent Philippine leaders have fused family, politics, and …
Amazons of the Huk Rebellion
Gender, Sex, and Revolution in the Philippines
Av Vina A. Lanzona, Alfred W. McCoy
Häftad, 2009
298 kr
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Policing America's Empire
The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State
Häftad, 2009
458 kr
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At the dawn of the twentieth century, the U.S. Army swiftly occupied Manila and then plunged into a decade-long pacification campaign with striking parallels to today's war in Iraq. Armed with cutting-edge technology from America's first information revolution, the U.S. colonial regime created the …
Floracrats
State-Sponsored Science and the Failure of the Enlightenment in Indonesia
Av Andrew Goss, Jack H. Medalie m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
298 kr
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Situated along the line that divides the rich ecologies of Asia and Australia, the Indonesian archipelago is a hotbed for scientific exploration, and scientists from around the world have made key discoveries there. But why do the names of Indonesia's own scientists rarely appear in the annals of …
Revolution Interrupted
Farmers, Students, Law and Violence in Northern Thailand
Häftad, 2011
284 kr
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In October 1973 a mass movement forced Thailand’s prime minister to step down and leave the country, ending nearly forty years of dictatorship. Three years later, in a brutal reassertion of authoritarian rule, Thai state and para-state forces quashed a demonstration at Thammasat University in …
Thailand's Political Peasants
Power in the Modern Rural Economy
Häftad, 2012
342 kr
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When a populist movement elected Thaksin Shinawatra as prime minister of Thailand in 2001, many of the country's urban elite dismissed the outcome as just another symptom of rural corruption, a traditional patronage system dominated by local strongmen pressuring their neighbors through political …
Government of Mistrust
Illegibility and Bureaucratic Power in Socialist Vietnam
Av Ken MacLean
Häftad, 2013
458 kr
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Focusing on the creation and misuse of government documents in Vietnam since the 1920s, The Government of Mistrust reveals how profoundly the dynamics of bureaucracy have affected Vietnamese efforts to build a socialist society. In examining the flurries of paperwork and directives that moved back …
Dreams of the Hmong Kingdom
The Quest for Legitimation in French Indochina, 1850–1960
Häftad, 2015
342 kr
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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 the Hmong experience of modernity is grounded in their sense of their own ancient past, when this now-stateless people had their own king and kingdom, …
Feeding Manila in Peace and War, 1850–1945
Inbunden, 2016
911 kr
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The first book to explore the critical problem of provisioning the “megacity”Over the past decade policymakers and scholars have come to realize that getting food, water, and services to the millions who live in the world’s few dozen megacities is one of the twenty-first century’s most formidable …
Hamka's Great Story
A Master Writer's Vision of Islam for Modern Indonesia
Inbunden, 2016
911 kr
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Hamka’s Great Story presents Indonesia through the eyes of an impassioned, popular thinker who believed that Indonesians and Muslims everywhere should embrace the thrilling promises of modern life, and navigate its dangers, with Islam as their compass.Hamka (Haji Abdul Malik Karim Amrullah) was …
Feeding Manila in Peace and War, 1850–1945
Häftad, 2019
360 kr
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Getting food, water, and services to the millions who live in the world’s few dozen megacities is one of the twenty-first century’s most formidable challenges. This innovative history traces nearly a century in the life of the megacity of Manila to show how it grew and what sustained it. Focusing …
Of Beggars and Buddhas
The Politics of Humor in the Vessantara Jataka in Thailand
Inbunden, 2017
742 kr
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The 547 Buddhist jatakas, or verse parables, recount the Buddha’s lives in previous incarnations. In his penultimate and most famous incarnation, he appears as the Prince Vessantara, perfecting the virtue of generosity by giving away all his possessions, his wife, and his children to the beggar …
Of Beggars and Buddhas
The Politics of Humor in the Vessantara Jataka in Thailand
Häftad, 2020
247 kr
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The 547 Buddhist jatakas, or verse parables, recount the Buddha's lives in previous incarnations. In his penultimate and most famous incarnation, he appears as the Prince Vessantara, perfecting the virtue of generosity by giving away all his possessions, his wife, and his children to the beggar …
In Plain Sight
Impunity and Human Rights in Thailand
Inbunden, 2018
938 kr
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Following a 1932 coup d'état in Thailand that ended absolute monarchy and established a constitution, the Thai state that emerged has suppressed political dissent through detention, torture, forced reeducation, disappearances, assassinations, and massacres. In Plain Sight shows how these abuses, …
In Plain Sight
Impunity and Human Rights in Thailand
Häftad, 2019
254 kr
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Following a 1932 coup d’état in Thailand that ended absolute monarchy and established a constitution, the Thai state that emerged has suppressed political dissent through detention, torture, forced reeducation, disappearances, assassinations, and massacres. In Plain Sight shows how these abuses, …
Dead in the Water
Global Lessons from the World Bank's Model Hydropower Project in Laos
Av Bruce Shoemaker, William Robichaud
Inbunden, 2018
938 kr
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For decades, large dam projects have been undertaken by both nations and international agencies with the aim of doing good: preventing floods, bringing electricity to rural populations, producing revenues for poor countries, and more. But time after time, the social, economic, and environmental …
Dead in the Water
Global Lessons from the World Bank's Model Hydropower Project in Laos
Av Bruce Shoemaker, William Robichaud
Häftad, 2019
254 kr
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For decades, large dam projects have been undertaken by both nations and international agencies with the aim of doing good: preventing floods, bringing electricity to rural populations, producing revenues for poor countries, and more. But time after time, the social, economic, and environmental …
Reckoning
Philippine Trials of Japanese War Criminals
Inbunden, 2019
938 kr
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After World War II, thousands of Japanese throughout Asia were put on trial for war crimes. Examination of postwar trials is now a thriving area of research, but Sharon W. Chamberlain is the first to offer an authoritative assessment of the legal proceedings convened in the Philippines. These were …
Everyday Economic Survival in Myanmar
Inbunden, 2019
938 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. …
Vietnam's Strategic Thinking During the Third Indochina War
Av Kosal Path
Inbunden, 2020
938 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 …
Philippine Sanctuary
A Holocaust Odyssey
Inbunden, 2020
967 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
Inbunden, 2020
938 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
Inbunden, 2020
938 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 …
Eliciting Care
Health and Power in Northern Thailand
Inbunden, 2020
880 kr
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In 2001, Thailand introduced universal health care reforms that have become some of the most celebrated in the world, providing almost its entire population with health protection coverage. However, this remarkable implementation of health policy is not without its weaknesses. Drawing on two years …
Repossessing Shanland
Myanmar, Thailand, and a Nation-State Deferred
Inbunden, 2021
938 kr
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Around five million people across Southeast Asia identify as Shan. Though the Shan people were promised an independent state in the 1947 Union of Burma constitution, successive military governments blocked their liberation. From 1958 onward, insurgency movements, including the Shan United …
