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  • Strange Parallels: Volume 2, Mainland Mirrors: Europe, Japan, China, South Asia, and the Islands

    Southeast Asia in Global Context, c.800–1830

    by Victor Lieberman ...
    Series series Studies in Comparative World History
    Blending fine-grained case studies with overarching theory, this book seeks both to integrate Southeast Asia into world history and to rethink much of Eurasia's premodern past. It argues that Southeast Asia, Europe, Japan, China, and South Asia all embodied idiosyncratic versions of a Eurasian-wide pattern whereby local isolates cohered to form ever larger, more stable, more complex political and ... Read more

    $86.99 USD

  • Asia Inside Out

    Changing Times

    by Eric Tagliacozzo, Helen F. Siu, Peter C. Perdue, Heidi Walcher, Victor Lieberman, Nancy Um, Charles J. Wheeler, Kerry Ward0, Robert I. Hellyer1, Anand A. Yang2, Andrew Willford3, Naomi Hosoda4 ...
    Series Book 1 - Asia Inside Out
    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 diverse networks and dynamic developments that have linked peoples from Japan to Yemen over the past five centuries.Each author examines an unnoticed moment—a single year or decade—that redefined Asia in some important way. Heidi ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

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  • Asia Inside Out

    Connected Places

    Edited by Eric Tagliacozzo, Helen F. Siu, Peter C. Perdue ...
    Series Book 2 - Asia Inside Out
    Asia Inside Out reveals the dynamic forces that have historically linked regions of the world’s largest continent, stretching from Japan and Korea to the South China Sea, the Indian Ocean, and the Middle East. Connected Places, the second installment in this pioneering three-volume survey, highlights the transregional flows of goods, ideas, and people across natural and political boundaries—sea ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • The Sacred Willow

    Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family

    by Mai Elliott ...
    A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Duong Van Mai Elliott's The Sacred Willow illuminates recent Vietnamese history by weaving together the stories of the lives of four generations of her family. Beginning with her great-grandfather, who rose from rural poverty to become an influential landowner, and continuing to the present, Mai Elliott traces her family's journey through an era of tumultuous ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Demokrasi

    Indonesia in the 21st Century

    by Hamish McDonald ...
    Indonesia, a nation of thousands of islands and almost 250 million people, straddles the junction of the Pacific and Indian oceans. Current President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has presided over 6 per cent average yearly growth of its economy, to surpass $1 trillion. If this rate continues, Indonesia will join the world's ten biggest economies in a decade or so, just behind the so-called BRIC ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A History of Modern Indonesia

    by Adrian Vickers ...
    Since the Bali bombings of 2002 and the rise of political Islam, Indonesia has frequently occupied media headlines. Nevertheless, the history of the fourth largest country on earth remains relatively unknown. Adrian Vickers' book, first published in 2005, traces the history of an island country, comprising some 240 million people, from the colonial period through revolution and independence to the ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • A History of the Vietnamese

    by K. W. Taylor ...
    The history of Vietnam prior to the nineteenth century is rarely examined in any detail. In this groundbreaking work, K. W. Taylor takes up this challenge, addressing a wide array of topics from the earliest times to the present day - including language, literature, religion, and warfare - and themes - including Sino-Vietnamese relations, the interactions of the peoples of different regions within ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • An American Amnesia

    How the US Congress Forced the Surrenders of South Vietnam and Cambodia

    by Bruce Herschensohn ...
    January 27th, 1973: the United States, South Vietnam, North Vietnam, and the Viet Cong sign the Paris Peace Accords, guaranteeing the right of self-determination to the South Vietnamese people. April 30th, 1975: President Duong Van Minh of South Vietnam announces the nation's unconditional surrender to the North, ending the decade-long conflict and enabling the merger of both countries into the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido for the Suppression of Piracy

    by Henry Keppel ...
    James, Rajah of Sarawak,KCB (born James Brooke; 29 April 1803 – 11 June 1868) was a British adventurer whose exploits in areas of the British Empire led to him becoming the first White Rajah of Sarawak. In 1833, He inherited £30,000, which he used as capital to purchase a 142-ton schooner, The Royalist. Setting sail for Borneo in 1838, he arrived in Kuching in August to find the settlement ... Read more

    $2.72 USD

  • 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

    $23.79 USD

  • Archaeology of East Asia

    The Rise of Civilization in China, Korea and Japan

    by Gina L. Barnes ...
    Archaeology of East Asia constitutes an introduction to social and political development from the Palaeolithic to 8th-century early historic times. It takes a regional view across China, Korea, Japan and their peripheries that is unbounded by modern state lines. This viewpoint emphasizes how the region drew on indigenous developments and exterior stimuli to produce agricultural technologies, craft ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Imperial Alchemy

    Nationalism and Political Identity in Southeast Asia

    by Anthony Reid ...
    The mid-twentieth century marked one of the greatest watersheds of Asian history, when a range of imperial constructs were declared to be nation-states, either by revolution or decolonisation. Nationalism was the great alchemist, turning the base metal of empire into the gold of nations. To achieve such a transformation from the immense diversity of these Asian empires required a different set of ... Read more

    $27.89 USD