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Invisible Enemies: The American War on Vietnam, 1975-2000 (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War)

March 22, 2015

Beginning where most histories of the Vietnam War end, Invisible Enemies examines the relationship between the United States and Vietnam following the American pullout in 1975. Drawing on a broad range of sources, from White House documents and congressional hearings to comic books and feature films, Edwin Martini shows how the United States continued to […]
Visualizing American Empire: Orientalism and Imperialism in the Philippines

March 22, 2015

In 1899 an American could open a newspaper and find outrageous images, such as an American soldier being injected with leprosy by Filipino insurgents. These kinds of hyperbolic accounts, David Brody argues in this illuminating book, were just one element of the visual and material culture that played an integral role in debates about empire […]
Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History: A Cultural and Political History (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics)

March 22, 2015

Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the sixteenth century to the Taliban resurgence today. Thomas Barfield introduces readers to the bewildering diversity of tribal and ethnic groups in Afghanistan, explaining what unites them as Afghans despite the […]
Fortress Monasteries of the Himalayas: Tibet, Ladakh, Nepal and Bhutan

March 22, 2015

Buddhism has been influential in the mountain kingdoms of the Himalayas since the 7th century AD, most notably in the kingdom of Tibet where it permeated all aspects and levels of society until the 20th century. From the 9th-century AD onwards, the secular rulers of Tibet sought to extend their influence, and that of Buddhism, […]
Buddha’s Warriors: The Story of the CIA-Backed Tibetan Freedom Fighters, the Chinese Communist Invasion, and the Ultimate Fall of Tibet

March 22, 2015

Buddha’s Warriors is the first book that brings to life Tibet before the Chinese communist invasions and depicts the transition of peaceful monks to warriors with the help of the CIA. Tibet in the last sixty years has been so much mystified and politicized that the world at large is confused about what really happened […]
Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense

March 22, 2015

Along the Archival Grain offers a unique methodological and analytic opening to the affective registers of imperial governance and the political content of archival forms. In a series of nuanced mediations on the nature of colonial documents from the nineteenth-century Netherlands Indies, Ann Laura Stoler identifies the social epistemologies that guided perception and practice, revealing […]
Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam

March 22, 2015

This is the prize winning work of the tragic collision between two cultures – the Vietnamese and the American. Sale Price:$11.42 B000F5FNPM
Engendering Hong Kong Society: A Gender Perspective of Women’s Status

March 22, 2015

This book provides a scholarly overview of women’s status in Hong Kong from a gender perspective. The contributors are associated with the Gender Research Program at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The chapters offer substantive analyses on the indicators of women’s status, including education, work, division of domestic labor, gender roles, women’s movement, and […]
Hearts, Minds, and Hydras: Fighting Terrorism in Afghanistan, Pakistan, America, and Beyond–Dilemmas and Lessons

March 22, 2015

Insurgencies are like the hydra, the many-headed beast of Greek mythology. Once one begins, the measures a government takes to eliminate militantsto cut off the insurgency’s headcan provoke countless others to join the enemy ranks. Tactical victories often breed strategic defeats. Traditional search, destroy, and withdraw” missions that rely on firepower to wipe out rebels […]
The Girl in the Picture: The Story of Kim Phuc, the Photograph, and the Vietnam War

March 22, 2015

On June 8, 1972, nine-year-old Kim Phuc, severely burned by napalm, ran from her blazing village in South Vietnam and into the eye of history. Her photograph-one of the most unforgettable images of the twentieth century-was seen around the world and helped turn public opinion against the Vietnam War.This book is the story of how […]

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