Southeast Asia | Asian History Books

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
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 […]
Glimpses of Freedom: Independent Cinema in Southeast Asia (Cornell University Studies on Southeast Asia Paper)

March 22, 2015

Since the late 1990s, a vivid new sphere of cinematic practice in Southeast Asia has emerged and been identified as independent. What exactly does this term mean in relation to the way films and videos are made, and the way they look? How do issues of festival circulation, piracy, technology, state and institutional power, and […]
Javanese Lives: Women and Men in Modern Indonesian Society

March 22, 2015

Java is the most populous island of Indonesia, the fifth largest nation in the world. Yet despite its importance, outsiders know little about the country or its people. With the help of Indonesian students and scholars, Walter L. Williams has collected and translated the life histories of twenty-seven Javanese women and men. The people interviewed […]
Point Man: Inside the Toughest and Most Deadly Unit in Vietnam by a Founding Member of the Elite Navy Seals

March 22, 2015

A member of the U.S. Navy SEAL Team II offers a history of the SEALs from their inception in 1962 and describes his experiences leading men through three Vietnam tours of duty. 35,000 first printing. $15,000 ad/promo. Sale Price:$7.93 0688122124
Ho

March 22, 2015

One of the most influential leaders of the twentieth century, Ho Chi Minh was founder of the Indochina Communist Party and its successor, the Viet-Minh, and was president from 1945 to 1969 of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam). In exploring the life and career of Ho Chi Minh, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam […]
Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind (P.S.)

March 22, 2015

After enduring years of hunger, deprivation, and devastating loss at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, ten-year-old Loung Ung became the “lucky child,” the sibling chosen to accompany her eldest brother to America while her one surviving sister and two brothers remained behind. In this poignant and elegiac memoir, Loung recalls her assimilation into an […]
Lyndon Johnson’s War: America’s Cold War Crusade in Vietnam, 1945-1968 (Hill and Wang Critical Issues)

March 22, 2015

The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics.Using newly available documents from both American and Vietnamese archives, Hunt reinterprets the values, choices, misconceptions, and miscalculations that shaped the long process of American intervention in Southeast Asia, and renders more comprehensible–if no less troubling–the tangled […]
Modern Warfare: A French View of Counterinsurgency (Psi Classics of the Counterinsurgency Era)

March 22, 2015

This volume in the Praeger Security International (PSI) series Classics of the Counterinsurgency Era reveals how French officers who served in Indochina, like the author, Roger Trinquier, fought fierce rear-guard actions against ideologically motivated insurgents in the 1940s and 1950s to a far greater extent than their American counterparts later faced in Vietnam. The lack […]

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