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  • Asia Inside Out

    by Erik Harms, Biao Xiang, Qiang Ma, David Ludden, Narges Erami, Angela Ki Che Leung, Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya, Seema Alavi, James Pickett, Tamara Loos, May Bo Ching, Emma Jinhua Teng, William W. Kelly ...
    A pioneering study of historical developments that have shaped Asia concludes with this volume tracing the impact of ideas and cultures of people on the move across the continent, whether willingly or not.In the final volume of Asia Inside Out, a stellar interdisciplinary team of scholars considers the migration of people—and the ideas, practices, and things they brought with them—to show the ways ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

  • Delimiting Modernities

    Conceptual Challenges and Regional Responses

    by Sven Trakulhun, Ralph Weber, Pheng Cheah, Gudrun Krämer, Anthony Reid, Volker H. Schmidt, Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Arif Dirlik, Wolfgang Knöbl0, Tamara Loos1, Andrea Riemenschnitter2 ...
    This collection seeks to contribute to the many long-standing discussions on modernity, but also and more specifically to the more recent debates over trends to pluralize modernity. These debates are current in many different academic disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, literature and postcolonial studies. Hitherto, most engagements with modernity in the plural have remained conspicuously ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • Bones around My Neck

    The Life and Exile of a Prince Provocateur

    by Tamara Loos ...
    Prince Prisdang Chumsai (1852–1935) served as Siam's first diplomat to Europe during the most dramatic moment of Siam's political history, when its independence was threatened by European imperialism. Despite serving with patriotic zeal, he suffered irreparable social and political ruin based on rumors about fiscal corruption, sexual immorality, and political treason. In Bones around My Neck, ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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    Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of Southeast Asia's Largest Nation

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    Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of the World's Largest ArchipelagoIndonesia is by far the largest nation in Southeast Asia and has the fourth largest population in the world after the United States. Indonesian history and culture are especially relevant today as the Island nation is an emerging power in the region with a dynamic new leader. It is a land of incredible diversity ... Read more

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  • The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej

    by Paul M. Handley ...
    Thailand’s Bhumibol Adulyadej, the only king ever born in the United States, came to the throne of his country in 1946 and is now the world’s longest-serving monarch. The King Never Smiles, the first independent biography of Thailand's monarch, tells the unexpected story of Bhumibol's life and sixty-year rule-how a Western-raised boy came to be seen by his people as a living Buddha, and how a king ... Read more

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  • The Lost Civilization of Lemuria

    The Rise and Fall of the World's Oldest Culture

    by Frank Joseph ...
    A compelling new portrait of the lost realm of Lemuria, the original motherland of humanity• Contains the most extensive and up-to-date archaeological research on Lemuria• Reveals a lost, ancient technology in some respects more advanced than modern science• Provides evidence that the perennial philosophies have their origin in Lemurian cultureBefore the Indonesian tsunami or Hurricane Katrina’s ... Read more

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  • Buddhadasa

    by J. Kumpiranonda ...
    To commemorate the life and spiritual teachings of Buddhadasa Bhikkhu.It has been 23 years since he departed this world.Buddhadasa Bhikku (1906-1993) is one of the most important Buddhist teachers of the twentieth century.As the meditation master of Suan Mokkh Meditation Center in Chaiya, southern Thailand, he propagatedBuddhist philosophy and meditation practice among tens of thousands of western ... Read more

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  • A History of Thailand

    by Chris Baker, Pasuk Phongpaichit ...
    A History of Thailand offers a lively and accessible account of Thailand's political, economic, social and cultural history. This book explores how a world of mandarin nobles and unfree peasants was transformed and examines how the monarchy managed the foundation of a new nation-state at the turn of the twentieth century. The authors capture the clashes between various groups in their attempts to ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • A Short History of Bali: Indonesia's Hindu Realm

    Indonesia's Hindu Realm

    by Robert Pringle ...
    A Short History of Bali covers the entire history of this intriguing and mysterious island from before the Bronze Age to the presidency of Megawati Sukarnoputri and the tragedy of the Kuta bombings on 12 October 2002. It looks at the arrival of Indian culture early European contact the role of anthropologists and taste-makers of the 1930s in romanticising the island and the complex legacies of ... Read more

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  • A Kingdom in Crisis

    Thailand's Struggle for Democracy in the Twenty-First Century

    by Andrew MacGregor Marshall ...
    Series series Asian Arguments
    'Perhaps the best introduction yet to the roots of Thailand's present political impasse. A brilliant book.'Simon Long, The EconomistStruggling to emerge from a despotic past, and convulsed by an intractable conflict that will determine its future, Thailand stands at a defining moment in its history. Scores have been killed on the streets of Bangkok. Freedom of speech is routinely denied. Democracy ... Read more

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  • A History of Southeast Asia

    Critical Crossroads

    by Anthony Reid ...
    Series series Blackwell History of the World
    2016 PROSE Award Honorable Mention for Textbook in the HumanitiesA History of Southeast Asia: Critical Crossroads presents a comprehensive history of Southeast Asia from our earliest knowledge of its civilizations and religious patterns up to the present day.Incorporates environmental, social, economic, and gender issues to tell a multi-dimensional story of Southeast Asian history from earliest ... Read more

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  • Southeast Asia

    A Very Short Introduction

    by James R. Rush ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The eleven countries of Southeast Asia are diverse in every way, from the ethnicities and religions of their residents to their political systems and levels of prosperity. These nations--Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore, the Philippines, Laos, Cambodia, Brunei, and East Timor--are each undeniably unique, yet the vestiges of their shared traditions mean that each country ... Read more

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