The Cham of Vietnam:... History, Society & Art... -... Bruce Lockhart & Tran Ky Phuong (eds)... New. This book is a collection of articles re-assessing the role of the Cham in Vietnamese history. Although the Cham never established a nation state, between the third and fifteenth centuries this people, with...
A Dragon Apparent... -... Norman Lewis... The veteran travel writer and novelist, Norman Lewis, decided to explore Indo-China at a time when it was in a considerable state of flux. The Japanese colonists had just left and the French were trying to re-exert their own version of colonial control...
Defeating Communist Insurgency: Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam... by... Sir Robert Thompson... This book is written based on the author's personal experience of twelve years of the 'Emergency' in Malaya and three years as Head of the British Advisory Mission in South Vietnam. Thompson looks at the theories of insurgency...
Going Indochinese:... Contesting Concepts of Space and Place in French Indochina... by... Christopher E. Goscha... This book, originally published in 1995 as 'Vietnamese Nationalism' is now republished with major revisions by the author. He looks at how nationalism in each of France's former Southeast Asian colonies developed under the shadow...
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 Asia:... A Critical Bibliography... -... KG Tregonning... The noted Southeast Asian scholar, tregonning, produced this bibliography as a guide to students studying the region, so covers mainly historical, sociological and economic texts. The subject matter is broken down into parts covering each of the component countries of the region. Each...
Southeast Asia:... A Critical Bibliography... -... KG Tregonning... The noted Southeast Asian scholar, tregonning, produced this bibliography as a guide to students studying the region, so covers mainly historical, sociological and economic texts. The subject matter is broken down into parts covering each of the component countries of the region. Each...
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 Road to Freedom:... A History of the Ho Chi Minh Trail... by... Virginia Morris & Clive Hills... New. The author and her photographer were sufficiently serious in undertaking this work to be the first Westerners in peace time to negiotiate this gruelling trail through Vietnam and Laos. This logistical...
The Short Story in South-East Asia... - -... JHCS Davidson & H Cordell (eds)... This book is a collection of papers presented at the School of Oriental and African Studies in 1978-79 highlighting a seldom studied genre, i.e. short story writing in the vernacular in Southeast Asia. So short...
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...
Making Out in Vietnamese... by... Peter Constantine... and... Ton-That Quynh-Due... This is one of Tuttle's easy to use Asian phrasebooks that aims to have you spouting street talk in no time. It claims to cut out the formalities of more formal phrase books so that you can make...
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 Cham of Vietnam:... History, Society & Art... -... Bruce Lockhart & Tran Ky Phuong (eds)... New. This book is a collection of articles re-assessing the role of the Cham in Vietnamese history. Although the Cham never established a nation state, between the third and fifteenth centuries this people, with...
British Missions to Cochin China:... 1778-1822... Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society Vol XXXIV Parts 3&4 (Nos 195 & 196)... Editedby... Alastair Lamb... As Lamb says in his introduction, the visits of Chapman in 1778, Macartney in 1793, Roberts in 1803 and 1804 and Crawfurd...
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 Asia in the Fifteenth Century:... The China Factor... Edited by... Geoff Wade & Sun Laichen... New. This century is a period that's generally skipped over by historians because of the lack of documentary and inscriptional evidence. However, the academics who have contributed papers to this volume claim that this...
Southeast Asia:... A Critical Bibliography... -... KG Tregonning... The noted Southeast Asian scholar, tregonning, produced this bibliography as a guide to students studying the region, so covers mainly historical, sociological and economic texts. The subject matter is broken down into parts covering each of the component countries of the region. Each...
Southeast Asia:... A Critical Bibliography... -... KG Tregonning... The noted Southeast Asian scholar, tregonning, produced this bibliography as a guide to students studying the region, so covers mainly historical, sociological and economic texts. The subject matter is broken down into parts covering each of the component countries of the region. Each...
The Cham of Vietnam:... History, Society & Art... -... Bruce Lockhart & Tran Ky Phuong (eds)... New. This book is a collection of articles re-assessing the role of the Cham in Vietnamese history. Although the Cham never established a nation state, between the third and fifteenth centuries this people, with...
A Dragon Apparent... -... Norman Lewis... The veteran travel writer and novelist, Norman Lewis, decided to explore Indo-China at a time when it was in a considerable state of flux. The Japanese colonists had just left and the French were trying to re-exert their own version of colonial control...
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