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Truth on Trial in Thailand

by David Streckfuss

This book explores the basics of the defamation law as it applies to private-sphere defamation and looks at the peculiar permutations created by the use of public-sphere defamation laws in Thailand, particularly...

Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War

by Ted Morgan

Pulitzer Prize–winning author Ted Morgan has now written a rich and definitive account of the fateful battle that ended French rule in Indochina—and led inexorably to America’s Vietnam War. Dien Bien Phu...

Undaunted: My Struggle for Freedom and Survival in Burma

by Zoya Phan & Damien Lewis

Once a royal kingdom and then part of the British Empire, Burma long held sway in the Western imagination as a mythic place of great beauty. In recent times, Burma has been torn apart and isolated by one of...

ASEAN's Diplomatic and Security Culture: Origins, Development and Prospects

by Jurgen Haacke

Member states of ASEAN - the Association of South-East Asian Nations - have developed a distinctive approach to political and security co-operation, which builds on the principles of sovereign equality, non-intervention...

Fighting from a Distance: How Filipino Exiles Toppled a Dictator

by Jose V. Fuentecilla

A first-hand account of immigrants' resistance from the U.S. against the Marcos regime in the Philippines

An American Amnesia

by Bruce Herschensohn

January 27th, 1973: the United States, South Vietnam, North Vietnam, and the Viet Cong sign the Paris Peace Accords, guaranteeing the right of self-determination to the South Vietnamese people.

Burma Victory: Imphal, Kohima and the Chindits - March 1944 to May 1945

by David Rooney

In the final years of World War II, the campaign against Japan stepped up in a series of bloody battles with each side having much to lose. While much of the history of the period focuses on the Pacific Campaign...

Southeast Asian History: Essential Readings

by D. R. SarDesai

A thoroughly updated collection providing a balance of countries, eras, and perspectives in Southeast Asian history

Southeast Asia in the New International Era

by Robert Dayley

An essential introduction to contemporary Southeast Asia in the context of a post-Cold War world

A Short History of Indonesia: The Unlikely Nation?

by Colin Brown

New in the Short Histories of Asia series, edited by Milton Osborne, this is a readable, well-informed and comprehensive history of Indonesia and its peoples, from ancient origins to the present day.

Reformasi: The Struggle for Power in Post-Soeharto Indonesia

by Kevin O'Rourke

A gripping account of Indonesia's political and economic struggles, from the final days of Soeharto's rule through the first two years of Wahid's presidency. Kevin O'Rourke's accessible and compelling style...

Gandhi the Man iPad Edition: How One Man Changed Himself to Change the World

by Eknath Easwaran

Designed for the iPad, with more than 70 photographs, this is the moving story of a nonviolent hero, told by a highly respected author who grew up in Gandhi’s India.

Gandhi’s life continues to inspire and...

Southeast Asia: An introductory history

by Milton Osborne

A lively and easy to read guide to Southeast Asia written by one of the world's pre-eminent historians of the area.

Building Cultural Nationalism in Malaysia: Identity, Representation and Citizenship

by Timothy P. Daniels

This text contains an examination of processes of cultural citizenship in peninsular Malaysia. In particular, it focuses upon the diverse residents of the southwestern state of Melaka and their negotiations...

United Nations and the Indonesian Takeover of West Papua, 1962-1969

by John Saltford

This book examines the role of the international community in the handover of the Dutch colony of West Papua/Irian Jaya to Indonesia in the 1960s and questions whether or not the West Papuan people ever genuinely...

Burma

by D. G. E. Hall

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern...

Food and War in Mid-Twentieth-Century East Asia

by Katarzyna J. Cwiertka

War has been both an agent of destruction and a catalyst for innovation. These two, at first sight contradictory, yet mutually constitutive outcomes of war-waging are particularly pronounced in twentieth-century...

New Girl Law: Drafting a Future for Cambodia

by Anne Elizabeth Moore

The engrossing report on young Cambodian women’s struggles for human rights and media justice continues in this follow-up to the critically acclaimed Cambodian Grrrl. This account explains how, in an attempt...

The Indonesian Presidency: The Shift from Personal toward Constitutional Rule

by Angus McIntyre

This pioneering study of the Indonesian presidency significantly redefines our understanding of Indonesian politics from independence to the present. Angus McIntyre blends political biography with constitutional...

The Elimination: A survivor of the Khmer Rouge confronts his past and the commandant of the killing fields

by Rithy Panh, Christophe Bataille & John Cullen

From the internationally acclaimed director of S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine, a survivor’s autobiography that confronts the evils of the Khmer Rouge dictatorship.

Rithy Panh was only thirteen years...