2015 | Asian History Books

Diary of a Girl in Changi

March 22, 2015

No description available. Sale Price:$14.98 0731812425
Colonialization of Islam; Dissolution of Traditional Institutions in Pakistan

March 22, 2015

Reprint of 1996 edition. This book is an important study of State-led Islamization in Pakistan, of the contents of the process and how it impacted the spokesmen of religion. This is a solid work of scholarship and an important contribution to the study of Islam and politics in general and Pakistan in paticular. Sale Price:$10.51 […]
Hong Kong, Borrowed Place, Borrowed Time

March 22, 2015

Many photos. Sale Price:$505.39 9997546849
Philippine Life in Town and Country

March 22, 2015

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) […]
Politicized Society: The Long Shadow of Taiwan’s One-party Legacy (Governance in Asia)

March 22, 2015

Taiwan’s gradual democratization has been celebrated as one of the most successful cases of political transformation, due to an initially smooth political transition from one-party authoritarianism to multi-party politics. Yet, this transition is incomplete and, especially since 2000 when the first non-Kuomintang president was elected, Taiwan has seen an intense and persistent politicization of its […]
The balancing act: A history of modern Thailand

March 22, 2015

In the pre-dawn hours of 24 June 1932 a band of disgruntled Thai bureaucrats, with a small clique of army colonels supporting the, staged an unlikely coup against the government of the last absolute monarch of Thailand. Using bluff and deception, they called together a number of armored units and infantrymen at the center of […]
Bataan: A Survivor’s Story

March 22, 2015

Like many other young American men during the depression-era 1930s, Gene Boyt entered Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Civilian Conservation Corps. Later, after receiving an ROTC commission in the Army Engineers and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Missouri School of Mines, Boyt joined the Allied forces in the Pacific Theater.While building runways and infrastructure […]
Hearts and Minds: A People’s History of Counterinsurgency (New Press People’s History)

March 22, 2015

The first book of its kind, Hearts and Minds is a scathing response to the grand narrative of U.S. counterinsurgency, in which warfare is defined not by military might alone but by winning the “hearts and minds” of civilians. Dormant as a tactic since the days of the Vietnam War, in 2006 the U.S. Army […]
A Short History of Cambodia: From Empire to Survival (A Short History of Asia series)

March 22, 2015

In this concise and compelling history, Cambodia’s past is described in vivid detail, from the richness of the Angkorean empire through the dark ages of the 18th and early-19th centuries, French colonialism, independence, the Vietnamese conflict, the Pol Sale Price:buy at discount B005IQBWSK
Revolution Interrupted: Farmers, Students, Law, and Violence in Northern Thailand (New Perspectives in Se Asian Studies)

March 22, 2015

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 Bangkok. In Revolution Interrupted, Tyrell Haberkorn focuses on this period […]

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