Southeast category: 2400 books
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...
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...
by Rough Guides
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
The Rough Guides Snapshot Southeast Asia on a Budget: Indonesia is the ultimate backpacker's guide to this breathtaking country. It leads you through the country with reliable information and comprehensive coverage of all the top sights and attractions, from the orang-utans of Bukit Lawang to the...
Photographic Guide to the Birds of Southeast Asia
Including the Philippines & Borneo
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2009
Whether traveling through Southeast Asia or relaxing at home, bird lovers will enjoy this thorough and colorful bird watching guide.
A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Southeast Asia is the first comprehensive photographic guide to the birds of mainland Southeast Asia, the Philippines and...
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...
Exploring Southeast Asia
A traveller's history of the region
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Southeast Asia is a tantalising part of the world. The region has undergone dramatic changes during its long and colourful history, and is marked by enormous cultural, geographical and political diversity.
From the grandeur of the 'classical' years through the transformations that accompanied...
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...
by Anton Swanepoel
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2015
Tips and Advice For Visiting Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, and Singapore
Get insider tips and advice from world traveler, Anton Swanepoel, who lived in Southeast Asia for over 18 months and backpacked extensively throughout Cambodia, Laos, Thailand...
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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...
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...
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...
by Lonely Planet, Brett Atkinson, Tim Bewer
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Lonely Planet: The world’s number one travel guide publisher*
Lonely Planet’s Southeast Asia on a Shoestring is your passport to having big experiences on a small budget, offering the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, what hidden discoveries await you and how to...
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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...