Southeast Asia category: 1948 books
Replacing France
The Origins of American Intervention in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2007
Using recently released archival materials from the United States and Europe, Replacing France: The Origins of American Intervention in Vietnam explains how and why the United States came to assume control as the dominant western power in Vietnam during the 1950s. Acting on their conviction that American...
by Marciano R. De Borja
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
The Basques played a remarkably influential role in the creation and maintenance of Spain’s colonial establishment in the Philippines. Their skills as shipbuilders and businessmen, their evangelical zeal, and their ethnic cohesion and work-oriented culture made them successful as explorers, colonial...
The End of the War
Singapore’s Liberation and the Aftermath of the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2010
The End of the War commemorates the end of the Second World War in Singapore and Malaya against the backdrop of the Japanese surrender on 12 September 1945. This fascinating book unveils much of the mystery shrouding some of the lesser-known but crucial facts and events leading up to the final days of...
Quagmire
Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Winner of the 2012 George Perkins Marsh Prize for Best Book in Environmental History
In the twentieth century, the Mekong Delta has emerged as one of Vietnam�s most important economic regions. Its swamps, marshes, creeks, and canals have played a major role in Vietnam�s turbulent past,...
The Battle for Burma 1943-1945
From Kohima & Imphal Through to Victory
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Despatches in this volume include that on operations in Burma and North-East India between November 1943 and June 1944, by General Sir George J. Giffard; the despatch on operations in Assam and Burma between June 1944 June and November 1944, by General Sir George J. Giffard, Commander-in-Chief; the...
by Linda Robinson, Patrick B. Johnston, Gillian S. Oak
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
This report examines the 14-year experience of U.S. special operations forces in the Philippines from 2001 through 2014 and the activities and effects of special operations capabilities employed to address terrorist threats in Operation Enduring Freedom—Philippines through training and equipping...
In the Crossfire
Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
In 1936, Ngo Van was captured, imprisoned, and tortured in the dreaded Maison Centrale prison in Saigon for his part in the struggle to free Vietnam from French colonial rule. Five years later, Vietnamese independence was won, and Van found himself imprisoned and abused once more-this time by the...
Violent Conflicts in Indonesia
Analysis, Representation, Resolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2006
Indonesia is currently affected by many serious conflicts which have arisen as a result of a variety of ethnic, religious and regional tensions.
Presenting important new thinking on violent conflict in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation, this book examines a selection of conflicts...
by Robert Devereux McEliece
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
A moving and sometimes chilling story of the making of childhood bonds in the 1950s, where young men lived on a dare and were restricted only by their own imaginations. This is a gripping tale of what the Vietnam War did to these young boys and their families.THE FAITHFUL SEXTANT tells of Captain...
The Last Wild Men of Borneo
A True Story of Death and Treasure
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
A 2019 EDGAR AWARDS NOMINEE (BEST FACT CRIME) • A BANFF MOUNTAIN BOOK AWARDS FINALIST
Two modern adventurers sought a treasure possessed by the legendary “Wild Men of Borneo.” One found riches. The other vanished forever into an endless jungle. Had he shed civilization—or lost his mind?...
by Duncan Stearn
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Thailand Timeline is a chronology of Thai history from 1500 to 2015. It lists in sequence the main historical information during this period. Covering more than 500 years of its rich and varied history, Thailand Timeline runs to almost 200,000 words and over 7,000 individual entries.This chronological...
A History of the Pacific Islands
Passages through Tropical Time
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
A book about the past and present Pacific Islands, wide-ranging in time and space spanning the centuries from the first settlement of the islands until the present day.
by Douglas Kammen
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
One of the most troubling but least studied features of mass political violence is why violence often recurs in the same place over long periods of time. Douglas Kammen explores this pattern in Three Centuries of Conflict in East Timor, studying that region’s tragic past, focusing on the small...
by Duncan MacDonald
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
The fourth edition of the dMAC Digest provides a concise biography of Java's Prince Diponegoro (1785-1855), who led a popular uprising against the Dutch between 1825 and 1830. He is regarded as a national hero, a pious Muslim and a Javanese mystic. Diponegoro came from a life of privilege in the Jogyakarta...