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  • A History of Modern Burma

    by Michael W. Charney ...
    Burma has lived under military rule for nearly half a century. The results of its 1990 elections were never recognized by the ruling junta and Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of Burma's pro-democracy movement, was denied her victory. She has been under house-arrest ever since. Now an economic satellite and political dependent of the People's Republic of China, Burma is at a crossroads. Will it become ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of the Global History of Warfare

    Edited by Kaushik Roy, Michael W. Charney ...
    This handbook examines key aspects of the development of the global history of warfare and the changing patterns of warfare over time.Although scholarship has long eschewed a chronological narrative of the evolution of warfare that privileges the Western experience, global histories of warfare have had difficulty avoiding an overemphasis on the West. The present volume is a collection of themes ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Chinese Migrants Abroad: Cultural, Educational, And Social Dimensions Of The Chinese Diaspora

    by Michael W Charney, Tong Chee Kiong, Brenda S A Yeoh ...
    Fast-paced economic growth in Southeast Asia from the late 1960s until the mid-1990s brought increased attention to the overseas Chinese as an economically successful diaspora and their role in this economic growth. Events that followed, such as the transfer of Hong Kong and Macau to the People's Republic of China, the election of a non-KMT government in Taiwan, the Asian economic crisis and the ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Imperial Military Transportation in British Asia

    Burma 1941-1942

    by Michael W. Charney ...
    Imperial Military Transportation in British Asia sheds light on attempts by royal engineers to introduce innovations devised in the UK to wartime India, Iraq, and Burma, as well as the initial resistance of local groups of colonial railwaymen to such metropolitan innovations.Michael W. Charney looks at the role of the railways in the First Burma Campaign to show how some kinds of military ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Approaching Transnationalisms

    Studies on Transnational Societies, Multicultural Contacts, and Imaginings of Home

    Edited by Brenda Yeoh, Michael W. Charney, Tong Chee Kiong ...
    The term 'transnationalism' has gained considerable academic and popular currency despite a lack of clear definitions, in part because its overall form changes as its influence incorporates additional spheres of daily life on a variety of scales and contexts.The purpose of this volume is to bring together different perspectives on this phenomenon, using case studies that represent some of the most ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Asian Migrants and Education

    The Tensions of Education in Immigrant Societies and Among Migrant Groups

    Edited by Michael W. Charney, Brenda Yeoh, Tong Chee Kiong ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    education is and what its functions should be. As Thomas explains, migrant communities need a culture-sensitive education, that is, an education that can both accommodate their special cultural needs and prepare them for life in an increasingly globalized world. To meet this need, Thomas discusses planning strategies and the special role of teachers in transmitting this education. As Thomas warns, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

    by Loung Ung ...
    “A riveting memoir. . . an important, moving work that those who have suffered cannot afford to forget and those who have been spared cannot afford to ignore.” — San Francisco ChronicleFrom a childhood survivor of the Cambodian genocide under the regime of Pol Pot, this is a riveting narrative of war crimes and desperate actions, the unnerving strength of a small girl and her family, and their ... Read more

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  • Cambodia's Curse

    The Modern History of a Troubled Land

    by Joel Brinkley ...
    A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist describes how Cambodia emerged from the harrowing years when a quarter of its population perished under the Khmer Rouge.A generation after genocide, Cambodia seemed on the surface to have overcome its history -- the streets of Phnom Penh were paved; skyscrapers dotted the skyline. But under this façe lies a country still haunted by its years of terror.Although ... Read more

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  • Local And Community Driven Development: Moving To Scale In Theory And Practice

    by Binswanger-Mkhize Hans P.; de Regt Jacomina P. ...
    This book examines the conceptual foundations of participatory approaches to building local institutions and builds an analytical framework in which civic participation is viewed as a potential solution to specific civil society, market, and government failures. It then uses this framework to review the evidence on the efficacy of participatory pproaches to problems of development nd to identify ... Read more

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  • The Critical Global Educator

    Global citizenship education as sustainable development

    by Maureen Ellis ...
    Series series Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education
    An acknowledged challenge for humanitarian democratic education is its perceived lack of philosophical and theoretical foundation, often resulting in peripheral academic status and reduced prestige. A rich philosophical and theoretical tradition does however exist. This book synthesises crucial concepts from Critical Realism, Critical Social Theory, Critical Discourse Studies, neuro-, psycho-, ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Where China Meets India

    Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia

    by Thant Myint-U ...
    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 jungle, by hostile tribes and remote inland kingdoms stretching a thousand miles from Calcutta ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-Blind Politics

    Education, Incarceration, Segregation, and the Future of the U.S. Multiracial Democracy

    by Grace Lee Boggs, Benjamin DeMott, Erica Frankenberg, Andrew Grant-Thomas, Lani Guinier, Maria Hinojosa, Gary Howard, Colbert I. King, Marc Mauer, Trinh Minh-Ha, Michael Omi, John Telford, Lisa Thurau, Johanna Wald, James J. Zogby, Nell Irvin Painter, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Houston Baker, Bob Herbert, Arthur Levine, Manning Marable, Alvin F. Poussaint, Cornel West, john a. powell ...
    Over 40 years ago the historic Kerner Commission Report declared that America was undergoing an urban crisis whose effects were disproportionately felt by underclass populations. In America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-blind Politics, Curtis Ivery and Joshua Bassett explore the persistence of this crisis today, despite public beliefs that America has become a "post-racial" nation after ... Read more

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