Southeast Asia category: 1948 books
Regionalism in Southeast Asia
To foster the political will
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Regionalism in Southeast Asia provides the reader with an historical analysis of Southeast Asia from the distinct perspective of regionalism. Southeast Asian history is usually written from a national point of view, which underplays the links between neighbouring states and nations and the effects...
by James R. Rush
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
The eleven countries of Southeast Asia are diverse in every way, from the ethnicities and religions of their residents to their political systems and levels of prosperity. These nations--Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore, the Philippines, Laos, Cambodia, Brunei, and East Timor--are...
America's Strategy in Southeast Asia
From Cold War to Terror War
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2006
Geography encompasses everything from the local—where human beings live, work, and travel—to metageographies like nations and regions. James A. Tyner's inventive and multidisciplinary ideas on geography similarly range from the personal—his father's experience in the military during the Vietnam...
by Donald E. Weatherbee
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2008
Southeast Asia consists of the countries of Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Historically, U.S. policy and diplomacy with Southeast Asia is defined by U.S. interests in the region, whether it's maintaining free lanes...
Chinese Houses of Southeast Asia
The Eclectic Architecture of Sojourners and Settlers
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Featuring over 350 beautiful photographs, Chinese Houses of Southeast Asia captures the architectural heritage of a vibrant community.
The multiple Chinese migrations from southeastern China to Southeast Asia have had important implications for both regions. In Southeast Asia this influence...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
This collection of essays collects the leading scholars on British colonial thought in Southeast Asia to consider the question: what was the relationship between liberalism and the British Empire in Southeast Asia? The empire builders in Southeast Asia: Lord Minto, William Farquhar, John Leyden, Thomas...
Textiles of Southeast Asia
Trade, Tradition and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Textiles provide a visual history of a country's culture and crafting traditions in a way few other things can accomplish. In Textiles of Southeast Asia, Dr. Robyn Maxwell provides the definitive work on Southeast Asian textiles.
Traditional textiles are one of the most widely collected and...
Early Mapping of Southeast Asia
The Epic Story of Seafarers, Adventurers, and Cartographers Who First Mapped the Regions Between China and India
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
With dozens of rare color maps and other documents, Early Mapping of Southeast Asia follows the story of map-making, exploration and colonization in Asia from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
It documents the idea of Southeast Asia as a geographical and cosmological construct, from the earliest...
New Perspectives on the History and Historiography of Southeast Asia
Continuing Explorations
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2011
Using a unique "old–new" treatment, this book presents new perspectives on several important topics in Southeast Asian history and historiography. Based on original, primary research, it reinterprets and revises several long-held conventional views in the field, covering the period from the "classical"...
Southeast Asia
An introductory history
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
The first edition of Southeast Asia: An introductory history was published in 1979 and immediately filled a need for travellers and students interested in a tantalisingly different part of the world. Subsequent editions (translated into Japanese, Khmer, Korean and Thai) have continued to document...
by Arthur Cotterell
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2014
A History of Southeast Asia narrates the history of the region from earliest recorded times until today, covering present-day Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, the Philippines, Indonesia and East Timor. Concisely written and filled with historical anecdotes, this...
by
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2005
Colonial armies were the focal points for some of the most dramatic tensions inherent in Chinese, Japanese and Western clashes with Southeast Asia. The international team of scholars take the reader on a compelling exploration from Ming China to the present day, examining their conquests, management...
The United States and Southeast Asian Regionalism
Collective Security and Economic Development, 1945–75
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018
The Nixon or Guam Doctrine of 1969 stressed the importance of progress towards regional cooperation and Asian collective security, indicating that Asian countries themselves should take the initiative in creating programs in which the United States could participate.
This book analyses the...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Submarine proliferation in the post-Cold War environment has led to an exponential increase in the number of regional submarine operators and begs the question: Were these submarine purchases...