The Sea Gypsies of Malaya... by... Walter Grainge White... New. This is a reprint of the anthropological research carried out by the author in the early part of the 20th century while making a census of the Mawken.This was a period when this people were beginning to adapt to...
Myanmar Architecture:... Cities of Gold... by... Ma Thanegi & Barry Broman... Burma is one of the few parts of Southeast Asia that has been left virtually untouched by tourists. The country's also fortunate in that it hasn't suffered major warfare since the end of the Second World War. As a...
British Colonial Policy in Burma... by... Aparna Mukherjee... It's not a very widely publicised fact - in Britain anyway - that Burma was also part of the British Empire. That's probably because Burma, unlike most former colonies, did not opt to join the Commonwelath on independence. This book, which details the British...
Mandalay to Momien... A narrative of the two Expeditions to Western China of 1868 and 1875 under Colonel E.B. Sladen and Colonel H. Browne... by... John Anderson... New. The author, a qualified medical doctor who transformed himself into a museum curator, managed to be included as part of two...
Myanmar Architecture:... Cities of Gold... by... Ma Thanegi & Barry Broman... Burma is one of the few parts of Southeast Asia that has been left virtually untouched by tourists. The country's also fortunate in that it hasn't suffered major warfare since the end of the Second World War. As a...
Southeast Asia :... Past and Present... - -... D.R. SarDesai... This, by now, standard work on the history of the region was one of the first to be written from more of an Asio-centric, rather than Western,point of view. In fact the author, an established professor at the University of...
Southeast Asian personalities of Chinese Descent... 2 Volumes-... Leo Suryadinata (ed)... New. For several centuries emigrants from China have been at the centre of trade in Southeast Asia. This volume, with nearly 200 contributors, assembles together pithy biographies of hundreds of the principal personalities who have contributed to trade and...
The Sea Gypsies of Malaya... by... Walter Grainge White... New. This is a reprint of the anthropological research carried out by the author in the early part of the 20th century while making a census of the Mawken.This was a period when this people were beginning to adapt to...
The West in Asia 1850-1914... by... Michael Edwardes... The really active time for Government inspired Western imperialism in Asia was relatively short, less than a century. Before that the bucaneers and tradesmen, often unwittingly, laid the foundations for something bigger to come. World War I showed the West had...
Asiatic Land Battles:... Allied Victories in China and Burma... by... Trevor Nevitt Dupuy... This outline takes the reader through the closing stages of the war in China and Burma The author is a retired US army colonel who gives a US perspective on the events. Illustrated with maps and photos...
Burma: The Forgotten War... by... Jon Latimer... Jon Latimer, a specialist in World War II history, in this major work brings provides us with a comprehensive account of the efforts of military leaders, such as Slim, Mountbatten and Wingate, the untiring foot soldiers from India and the rest of the...
Safer than a Known Way... by... Ian MacHorton... Chindit left behind in Burma evaded Japanese to return to Imphal. 248 pages... Weight 0.3kg. Please note this book will be shipped from the UK. If you live outside Europe, please allow 3-4 weeks for delivery... Published by Popular Book...
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