Southeast Asia category: 1948 books
No Man's Land
Globalization, Territory, and Clandestine Groups in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The increased ability of clandestine groups to operate with little regard for borders or geography is often taken to be one of the dark consequences of a brave new globalized world. Yet even for terrorists and smugglers, the world is not flat; states exert formidable control over the technologies...
by Seo Ryeung Ju, Himasari Hanan, Syed Iskandar Ariffin
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Southeast Asian architecture tends to be generalized under one umbrella due to the countries’ common geographical, climatic, and historical context. However, Southeast Asian countries are dissimilar due to their ethnic and religious differences, which led to each country’s own subtle characteristics...
Asia's Cauldron
The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY FINANCIAL TIMES
From Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world’s Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, comes a penetrating look at the volatile region that will dominate the future of geopolitical conflict.**
Over the last decade,...
Where China Meets India
Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Thant Myint-U's Where China Meets India is a vivid, searching, timely book about the remote region that is suddenly a geopolitical center of the world.
From their very beginnings, China and India have been walled off from each other: by the towering summits of the Himalayas, by a vast and impenetrable...
Social Policy in East and Southeast Asia
Education, Health, Housing and Income Maintenance
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Social Policy in East and South East Asia provides the first systematic comparison of the policy sectors of income maintenance, health, housing and education in Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan. It focuses particularly on the provision and financing arrangements of these four Asian newly...
Writing the South Seas
Imagining the Nanyang in Chinese and Southeast Asian Postcolonial Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Postcolonial literature about the South Seas, or Nanyang, examines the history of Chinese migration, localization, and interethnic exchange in Southeast Asia, where Sinophone settler cultures evolved independently by adapting to their "New World" and mingling with native cultures. Writing...
Secret Trades, Porous Borders
Smuggling and States Along a Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865-1915
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Over the course of the half century from 1865 to 1915, the British and Dutch delineated colonial spheres, in the process creating new frontiers. This book analyzes the development of these frontiers in Insular Southeast Asia as well as the accompanying smuggling activities of the opium traders, currency...
by Lorien Holland
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
This stunning travel pictorial and Malaysia travel guide highlights, the landscapes, architecture, food, culture and people of Malasia.
Lying just north of the equator, Malaysia comprises Peninsular Malaysia and the states of Sabah Sarawak on the island of Borneo. A blend of east and west,...
Exciting Malaysia
A Visual Journey
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Lying just north of the equator, Malaysia comprises Peninsular Malaysia and the states of Sabah and Sarawak on the island of Borneo. A blend of East and West, of different lifestyles, cuisines, architectural styles, peoples, religions, and attitudes, Malaysia is a fascinating and at times bewildering...
Collective Goods
Collective Futures in East and Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
This edited collection explores issues surrounding the provision of collective goods within the context of post-crisis East and Southeast Asia. It includes case studies on Korea, Indonesia, China, Laos, Malaysia and Singapore among others.
Early Mapping of the Pacific
The Epic Story of Seafarers, Adventurers and Cartographers Who Mapped the Earth's Greatest Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Take a journey back to the uncharted oceans with the most celebrated European explorers!
Interest in Southeast Asian history and culture is higher than ever before. Ancient cartography of Oceania holds mysteries as old as time—were these early ocean maps molded as much by fantasy as fact?...
Journey Through the Philippines
An Unforgettable Journey from Manila to Mindanao
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Journey Through the Philippines is the ultimate Philippines travel pictorial for exploring Asia's second largest archipelago, home to some of the world's most beautiful natural landscapes.
Often overlooked by travelers in Southeast Asia, the Philippines is one of the region's most exciting...
Race and British Colonialism in Southeast Asia, 1770-1870
John Crawfurd and the Politics of Equality
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
The idea of "race" played an increasing role in nineteenth-century British colonial thought. For most of the nineteenth century, John Crawfurd towered over British colonial policy in South-East Asia, being not only a colonial administrator, journalist and professional lobbyist, but also...
Security and Migration in Asia
The dynamics of securitisation
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2008
Security and Migration in Asia explores how various forms of unregulated and illegal forms of human movement within Asia and beyond the region have come to be treated as 'security' issues, and whether and how a 'securitization' framework enables a more effective response to them. The process and...