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Cover of Resisting Bondage in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia
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Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007

This important collection of essays examines the history and impact of the abolition of the slave trade and slavery in the Indian Ocean World, a region stretching from Southern and Eastern Africa to the Middle East, India, Southeast Asia and the Far East. Slavery studies have traditionally...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004

This book sets out the problems of measuring the effects of technological change on economic progress by using the internet in the Asia-Pacific region as a case study. Corporate and industry experience, including changing business organization and new regulatory issues are explored as well as policy...
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Asia.com

Asia Encounters the Internet

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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003

The internet is developing quicker in Asia than in any other region of the world. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the information society in an Asian context, and the impact of these technologies in Asia. These impacts are inevitably uneven and conditioned by issues of telecommunications...
Cover of Going Back to Bangkok: A Return to South East Asia - 2011
by Barry Pomeroy
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2016

Going Back to Bangkok tells the story of traveling with my girlfriend in South East Asia. In many ways it follows from the more than six months I spent in South East Asia five years earlier which I detail in How to Get to Bangkok. She and I traveled up and down the country of Thailand and into Laos,...
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World War One in Southeast Asia

Colonialism and Anticolonialism in an Era of Global Conflict

by Heather Streets-Salter
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017

Although not a major player during the course of the First World War, Southeast Asia was in fact altered by the war in multiple and profound ways. Ranging across British Malaya, the Dutch East Indies, and French Indochina, Heather Streets-Salter reveals how the war shaped the region's political, economic,...
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Historical Atlas of Northeast Asia, 1590-2010

Korea, Manchuria, Mongolia, Eastern Siberia

by Narangoa Li, Robert Cribb
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014

Four hundred years ago, indigenous peoples occupied the vast region that today encompasses Korea, Manchuria, the Mongolian Plateau, and Eastern Siberia. Over time, these populations struggled to maintain autonomy as Russia, China, and Japan sought hegemony over the region. Especially from the turn...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015

The first of three volumes surveying the historical, spatial, and human dimensions of inter-Asian connections, Asia Inside Out: Changing Times brings into focus the dynamic networks that have linked peoples from Japan to Yemen over the past five centuries. Each author examines a single year or decade that redefined Asia.
Cover of The Nanjing Atrocities: Crimes of War
by Facing History and Ourselves Facing History and Ourselves
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014

The Nanjing Atrocities: Crimes of War details the events unfolding in China and Japan in the years leading up to World War II in East Asia, and the Japanese occupation of the city of Nanjing, China, in 1937. Following our guiding scope and sequence, and including a foreword by Benjamin Ferencz, a...
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Land Beyond the River

The Untold Story of Central Asia

by Monica Whitlock
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014

Along the banks of the river once called Oxus lie the heartlands of Central Asia: Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Catapulted into the news by events in Afghanistan, just across the water, these strategically important, intriguing and beautiful countries remain almost completely unknown to the outside world. In...
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By More Than Providence

Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific Since 1783

by Michael Green
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017

Soon after the American Revolution, ?certain of the founders began to recognize the strategic significance of Asia and the Pacific and the vast material and cultural resources at stake there. Over the coming generations, the United States continued to ask how best to expand trade with the region and...
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Southeast Asia

A Testament

by George McT. Kahin
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003

Southeast Asia: A Testament covers the tragic history of post war Indonesia from its successful struggle against the Dutch to Suharto's bloody overthrow of Sukarno in 1965. It also gives a personal account of the US involvement in Indochina, where George Kahin was an early critic of the Vietnam war...
Cover of Political Change in Southeast Asia
by Jacques Bertrand
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013

Southeast Asia is a vast and complex region, comprising countries with remarkably diverse histories and cultures. Jacques Bertrand provides a fresh and highly original survey of politics and political change in this area of the world. Against the backdrop of rapid economic development and social transformation...
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Employment Relations in the Asia-Pacific Region

Reflections and New Directions

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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013

This book focuses on new developments in employment in Asia. The context for this discussion is provided by the processes of globalisation, and the associated debate on labour standards. Individual chapters focus on issues such as the role of NGOs as surrogate unions, employment regulation in export...
Cover of Transnational Memory and Popular Culture in East and Southeast Asia
by Liew Kai Khiun
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016

Transnational Memory and Popular Culture in East and Southeast Asia explores the significance of transnational popular culture in the formation and mediation of collective memories across the region. It looks at case studies including: the politics of cinematic remembering of Hong Kong films on Southeast...
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