Southeast Asia category: 1948 books
The Cold War and National Assertion in Southeast Asia
Britain, the United States and Burma, 1948–1962
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
This book charts British and American approaches to Burma between the country’s independence from the United Kingdom in 1948 and the military coup that ended civilian government in 1962. It analyses the fundamental drivers of Anglo-American policy-making during this crucial period – assumptions,...
Neutrality in Southeast Asia
Concepts and Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This book analyses the notion of neutrality to the politics of the state in Southeast Asia. Distinguishing among neutrality, neutralism and neutralisation, it asks what relation do the concepts bear to the independence of states, and how do they relate to other forms of inter-state relations and to...
by Anthony Reid
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1999
In this volume, Anthony Reid positions Southeast Asia on the stage of world history. He argues that the region not only had a historical character of its own, but that it played a crucial role in shaping the modern world.
Southeast Asia’s interaction with the forces uniting and transforming...
Japan's Quest for Stability in Southeast Asia
Navigating the Turning Points in Postwar Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
More than any other region in the world, Asia has witnessed tremendous change in the post-war era. A continent once engulfed by independence and revolution, and later by the Cold War and civil war, has now been transformed into the world’s most economically dynamic region. What caused this change...
Histories of Health in Southeast Asia
Perspectives on the Long Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Health patterns in Southeast Asia have changed profoundly over the past century. In that period, epidemic and chronic diseases, environmental transformations, and international health institutions have created new connections within the region and the increased interdependence of Southeast Asia with...
Chinese Circulations
Capital, Commodities, and Networks in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
Chinese merchants have traded with Southeast Asia for centuries, sojourning and sometimes settling, during their voyages. These ventures have taken place by land and by sea, over mountains and across deserts, linking China with vast stretches of Southeast Asia in a broad, mercantile embrace. Chinese...
Projections of Power
The United States and Europe in Colonial Southeast Asia, 1919–1941
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
Throughout its history, the United States has been both imperialistic and anticolonial: imperialistic in its expansion across the continent and across oceans to colonies such as the Philippines, and anticolonial in its rhetoric and ideology. How did this contradiction shape its interactions with European...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
This book presents extensive new research findings on and new thinking about Southeast Asia in this interesting, richly diverse, but much understudied period. It examines the wide and well-developed trading networks, explores the different kinds of regimes and the nature of power and security, considers...
A Short History of China and Southeast Asia
Tribute, Trade and Influence
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2003
China, the world's most populous nation, has always exerted great influence on the traditional kingdoms and modern states of Southeast Asia. Today, history and culture continue to shape the modern relationship.
In this concise volume, Martin Stuart-Fox charts the history of relations between...
The Mekong
Turbulent Past, Uncertain Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
**A “remarkable” history of the great river of Southeast Asia (**Jill Ker Conway, author of The Road from Coorain).
The Mekong River runs over nearly three thousand miles, beginning in the mountains of Tibet and flowing through China, Burma, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam before...
Cold War Monks
Buddhism and America's Secret Strategy in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
The groundbreaking account of U.S. clandestine efforts to use Southeast Asian Buddhism to advance Washington’s anticommunist goals during the Cold War
How did the U.S. government make use of a “Buddhist policy” in Southeast Asia during the Cold War despite the American principle that...
Nationalism in Southeast Asia
If the People Are with Us
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Nationalism in Southeast Asia seeks a definition of nationalism through examining its role in the history of southeast Asia, a region rarely included in general books on the topic. By developing such a definition and testing it out, Tarling hopes at the same time to make a contribution to southeast...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
The study of the history of Southeast Asia is still growing, evolving, deepening and changing as an academic field. Over the past few decades historians have added nuance to traditional topics such as Islam and nationalism, and created new ones, such as gender, globalization and the politics of memory....
by Barbara Watson Andaya, Leonard Y. Andaya
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Written by two experienced teachers with a long history of research, this textbook provides students with a detailed overview of developments in early modern Southeast Asia, when the region became tightly integrated into the world economy because of international demand for its unique forest and sea...