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  • The Universe Unraveling

    American Foreign Policy in Cold War Laos

    by Seth S. Jacobs ...
    Series series The United States in the World
    During the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations, Laos was positioned to become a major front in the Cold War. Yet American policymakers ultimately chose to resist communism in neighboring South Vietnam instead. Two generations of historians have explained this decision by citing logistical considerations. According to the accepted account, Laos's landlocked, mountainous terrain made the kingdom ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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  • Fire in the Lake

    The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam

    by Frances FitzGerald ...
    A "compassionate and penetrating" landmark history of Vietnam and the Vietnam War ( New York Times Book Review)."Fitzgerald's Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning study of the Vietnam War remains essential reading thirty years after its initial publication." — Library JournalThis magisterial work, based on Frances FitzGerald's many years of research and travels, takes us inside the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Night, Again

    Contemporary Fiction from Vietnam

    Edited by Linh Dinh ...
    A couple's scheme to get rich by killing their father backfires, leaving them in charge of a cripple. In heaven, a baby, dead through neglect, tells his playmates: "Life down there is just one long sleep." A young soldier, saved by a stranger, can never again find her to thank her. A man carries a massive clock. Using a variety of techniques and styles, in this collection of twelve short stories ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • In the Time of Madness

    Indonesia on the Edge of Chaos

    by Richard Lloyd Parry ...
    From the acclaimed author of People Who Eat Darkness comes this "deeply felt" account of Indonesia at the crossroads of freedom and terror ( Time, Asia).In the last years of the twentieth century, foreign correspondent Richard Lloyd Parry found himself in the vast island nation of Indonesia, one of the most alluring, mysterious, and violent countries in the world. For thirty-two years, it had been ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reformasi

    The Struggle for power in post-Soeharto Indonesia

    by Kevin O'Rourke ...
    In July 1996, President Soeharto crossed a point of no return. Small but vocal student groups were staging daily demonstrations to demand 'reformasi' - Indonesia's byword for democratic reform. Disturbed by the unprecedented show of dissent, Soeharto cracked down. But by demonstrating that he would cling to power through force, the 74-year-old president dashed hopes for a peaceful democratic ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Shooting an Elephant

    by George Orwell ...
    In this powerful essay, George Orwell recounts a moment of moral conflict during his time as a colonial officer in Burma. Ordered to kill a rampaging elephant, he finds himself caught between his own conscience and the expectations of the empire he serves. Shooting an Elephant offers a stark, unsettling look at the contradictions of colonial rule and the ways in which power entraps both the ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Mourning Headband for Hue

    An Account of the Battle for Hue, Vietnam 1968

    by Nha Ca ...
    Translated by Olga Dror ...
    "An intimate―and disturbing―account of war at its most brutal, told from the point of view of civilians trying to survive the maelstrom." — Publishers WeeklyVietnam, January, 1968. As the citizens of Hue are preparing to celebrate Tet, the start of the Lunar New Year, Nha Ca arrives in the city to attend her father's funeral. Without warning, war erupts all around them, drastically changing or ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Race and the Education of Desire

    Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things

    by Ann Laura Stoler ...
    Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality has been one of the most influential books of the last two decades. It has had an enormous impact on cultural studies and work across many disciplines on gender, sexuality, and the body. Bringing a new set of questions to this key work, Ann Laura Stoler examines volume one of History of Sexuality in an unexplored light. She asks why there has been such a ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Burma

    by D. G. E. Hall ...
    The early history of Burma is obscure. The Burmese chronicles begin with the supposed foundation of Tagaung in 850 B.C., but the stories they tell are copies of Indian legends taken from Sanskrit or Pali originals. The earliest extant description of Further India is in the Geography of the Alexandrian scholar, Ptolemy, who flourished in the middle of the second century A.D. He refers to the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Violence and Vengeance

    Religious Conflict and Its Aftermath in Eastern Indonesia

    by Christopher R. Duncan ...
    Between 1999 and 2000, sectarian fighting fanned across the eastern Indonesian province of North Maluku, leaving thousands dead and hundreds of thousands displaced. What began as local conflicts between migrants and indigenous people over administrative boundaries spiraled into a religious war pitting Muslims against Christians and continues to influence communal relationships more than a decade ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Quagmire

    Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta

    by David Andrew Biggs ...
    Series series Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
    Winner of the 2012 George Perkins Marsh Prize for Best Book in Environmental HistoryIn 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, from the struggles of colonialism to the Cold War and the present day. Quagmire considers these struggles, their ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Imperial Bandits

    Outlaws and Rebels in the China-Vietnam Borderlands

    by Bradley Camp Davis, Charles F. Keyes, Laurie J. Sears, Vicente Rafael ...
    Series series Critical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies
    The Black Flags raided their way from southern China into northern Vietnam, competing during the second half of the nineteenth century against other armed migrants and uplands communities for the control of commerce, specifically opium, and natural resources, such as copper. At the edges of three empires (the Qing empire in China, the Vietnamese empire governed by the Nguyen dynasty, and, ... Read more

    $31.49 USD