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Diving in Southeast Asia
A Guide to the Best Sites in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Well–travelled divers all acknowledge that the best diving in the world is found in the warm waters of tropical Asia.
No other region on earth presents such a rich variety of marine life, and none can boast as many different types of dive sites: tiny, isolated atolls, World War II wrecks...
by Rough Guides
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
The Rough Guide Snapshot to Indonesia on a Budget
Includes Java, Sumatra and Bali
The Rough Guide Snapshot to Indonesia is the ultimate budget guide to Indonesia. It leads you through the country with reliable information and comprehensive coverage of all the top sights and attractions, from...
by Rough Guides
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Tuk tuks, temples, sizzling street food and remote tropical islands: discover the best of Southeast Asia with Rough Guides. Our intrepid authors have trekked, cycled and snorkelled from Bali to Myanmar, seeking out the best-value guesthouses, activities and restaurants. In-depth reviews of budget...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
This volume investigates various processes by which world religions become localized, as well as how local traditions in Southeast Asia and Melanesia become universalized. In the name of modernity and progress, the contemporary Southeast Asian states tend to press their populations to have a ‘religion,'...
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...
World War One in Southeast Asia
Colonialism and Anticolonialism in an Era of Global Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Although not a major player during the course of the First World War, Southeast Asia was in fact altered by the war in multiple and profound ways. Ranging across British Malaya, the Dutch East Indies, and French Indochina, Heather Streets-Salter reveals how the war shaped the region's political, economic,...
Southeast Asia
A Testament
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Southeast Asia: A Testament covers the tragic history of post war Indonesia from its successful struggle against the Dutch to Suharto's bloody overthrow of Sukarno in 1965. It also gives a personal account of the US involvement in Indochina, where George Kahin was an early critic of the Vietnam war...
Transnational Memory and Popular Culture in East and Southeast Asia
Amnesia, Nostalgia and Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Transnational Memory and Popular Culture in East and Southeast Asia explores the significance of transnational popular culture in the formation and mediation of collective memories across the region. It looks at case studies including: the politics of cinematic remembering of Hong Kong films on Southeast...
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...
Chinese Encounters in Southeast Asia
How People, Money, and Ideas from China Are Changing a Region
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
This is the first book to focus explicitly on how China�s rise as a major economic and political actor has affected societies in Southeast Asia. It examines how Chinese investors, workers, tourists, bureaucrats, longtime residents, and adventurers interact throughout Southeast Asia. The contributors...
After Bali
The Threat of Terrorism in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2003
This book critically analyses the specific threat of terrorism in Southeast Asia since the Bali blasts of 12 October 2002 and the US-led war on Iraq. It offers a comprehensive and critical examination of the ideological, socioeconomic and political motivations, trans-regional linkages, and media representations...
by Thanet Aphornsuvan, Richard L. Benkin, Melissa Kerr Chiovenda
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
South and Southeast Asia continue to be extremely critical regions, deeply intertwined and bound in many ways by centuries of intersecting histories. As the recent experiences of rapid and transformative political and economic changes in several countries in these two regions illustrate, these changes...
Mainland Southeast Asian Languages
A Concise Typological Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
This highly accessible introduction explores the core systems and subsystems of the languages of mainland Southeast Asia, applying the main concepts of language typology, phonology, morphology, syntax, sociolinguistics, language variation, and language contact, to this diverse language area. Written...
by Insight Guides
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Insight Guides: all you need to inspire every step of your journey.
From deciding when to go, to choosing what to see when you arrive, this is all you need to plan your trip and experience the best of Southeast Asia, with in-depth insider information on must-see, top attractions like Angkor...