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  • Viet Nam

    A History from Earliest Times to the Present

    by Ben Kiernan ...
    For many Westerners, the name Vietnam evokes images of a bloody televised American war that generated a firestorm of protest and brought conflict into their living rooms. In his sweeping account, Ben Kiernan broadens this vision by narrating the rich history of the peoples who have inhabited the land now known as Viet Nam over the past three thousand years. Despite the tragedies of the American ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Cambridge World History of Genocide: Volume 2, Genocide in the Indigenous, Early Modern and Imperial Worlds, from c.1535 to World War One

    by Ben Kiernan ...
    Series series The Cambridge World History of Genocide
    Volume II documents and analyses genocide and extermination throughout the early modern and modern eras. It tracks their global expansion as European and Asian imperialisms, and Euroamerican settler colonialism, spread across the globe before the Great War, forging new frontiers and impacting Indigenous communities in Europe, Asia, North America, Africa, and Australia. Twenty-five historians with ... Read more

    Was $139.99 USD Now $40.99 USD

  • Genocide and Resistance in Southeast Asia

    Documentation, Denial, and Justice in Cambodia and East Timor

    by Ben Kiernan ...
    Two modern cases of genocide and extermination began in Southeast Asia in the same year. Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, and Indonesian forces occupied East Timor from 1975 to 1999. This book examines the horrific consequences of Cambodian communist revolution and Indonesian anti-communist counterinsurgency. It also chronicles the two cases of indigenous resistance ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Cambridge World History of Genocide: Volume 1, Genocide in the Ancient, Medieval and Premodern Worlds

    by Ben Kiernan ...
    Series series The Cambridge World History of Genocide
    Volume I offers an introductory survey of the phenomenon of genocide. The first five chapters examine its major recurring themes, while the further nineteen are specific case studies. The combination of thematic and empirical approaches illuminates the origins and long history of genocide, its causes, consistent characteristics, and the connections linking various cases from earliest times to the ... Read more

    Was $139.99 USD Now $40.99 USD

  • The Cambridge World History of Genocide: Volume 3, Genocide in the Contemporary Era, 1914–2020

    Edited by Ben Kiernan, Wendy Lower, Norman Naimark, Scott Straus ...
    Series series The Cambridge World History of Genocide
    Volume III examines the most well-known century of genocide, the twentieth century. Opening with a discussion on the definitions of genocide and 'ethnic cleansing' and their relationships to modernity, it continues with a survey of the genocide studies field, racism and antisemitism. The four parts cover the impacts of Racism, Total War, Imperial Collapse, and Revolution; the crises of World War ... Read more

    Was $139.99 USD Now $40.99 USD

  • Conflict and Change in Cambodia

    Edited by Ben Kiernan, Caroline Hughes ...
    In the thirty years after the Second World War, Cambodia witnessed the reassertion of colonial power, the spread of nationalism, the birth and growth of a communist party, the achievement of independence, the stifling reform during the decade of peace, the rise of an armed domestic insurgency, the encroachment of an international war, massive bombardment and civilian casualties, pogroms and ethnic ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Political Violence in Southeast Asia since 1945

    Case Studies from Six Countries

    Edited by Eve Monique Zucker, Ben Kiernan ...
    Series series Mass Violence in Modern History
    This book examines postwar waves of political violence that affected six Southeast Asian countries – Indonesia, Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Vietnam – from the wars of independence in the mid-twentieth century to the recent Rohingya genocide.Featuring cases not previously explored, and offering fresh insights into more familiar cases, the chapters cover a range of topics ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • War and State Terrorism

    The United States, Japan, and the Asia-Pacific in the Long Twentieth Century

    by Utsumi Aiko, Bruce Cumings, Richard A. Falk, Ben Kiernan, Diana Lary, Peter Dale Scott, Brian Daizen Victoria, Lawrence S. Wittner, Marilyn B. Young ...
    Series series War and Peace Library
    If the past hundred years will be remembered as a century of war, Asia is surely central to that story. Tracing the course of conflicts throughout the region, this groundbreaking volume is the first to explore systematically the nexus of war and state terrorism. Challenging states' definitions of terrorism, which routinely exclude their own behavior, the book focuses especially on the nature of ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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    China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower

    by Michael Pillsbury ...
    One of the U.S. government's leading China experts reveals the hidden strategy fueling that country's rise – and how Americans have been seduced into helping China overtake us as the world's leading superpower.For more than forty years, the United States has played an indispensable role helping the Chinese government build a booming economy, develop its scientific and military capabilities, and ... Read more

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  • Asian Waters

    The Struggle Over the Indo-Pacific and the Challenge to American Power

    by Humphrey Hawksley ...
    "Seamlessly connects geography, history and great power intrigue across the entire Indo-Pacific region, increasingly the fulcrum of world history." —James Clad, Director, Asian Security Programs at the American Foreign Policy CouncilIn the sphere of future global politics, no region will be as hotly contested as the Asia-Pacific, where great power interests collide amid the mistrust of unresolved ... Read more

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  • The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism

    by Noam Chomsky, Edward S. Herman ...
    Series Book 1 - The Political Economy of Human Rights
    Volume one of the influential study of US foreign policy during the Cold War—and the media's manipulative coverage—by the authors of Manufacturing Consent.First published in 1979, Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman's two-volume work, The Political Economy of Human Rights, is a devastating analysis of the United States government's suppression of human rights and support of authoritarianism in Asia, ... Read more

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  • Asia’s Unknown Uprisings Volume 2

    People Power in the Philippines, Burma, Tibet, China, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Thailand, and Indonesia, 1947–2009

    by George Katsiaficas ...
    Ten years in the making, this magisterial work—the second of a two-volume study—provides a unique perspective on uprisings in nine Asian nations in the past five decades. While the 2011 Arab Spring is well known, the wave of uprisings that swept Asia in the 1980s remain hardly visible. Through a critique of Samuel Huntington’s notion of a “Third Wave” of democratization, the author relates Asian ... Read more

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