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Engineers of Happy Land: Technology and Nationalism in a Colony (Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History) by Rudolf Mrazek Publisher Comments Based on close reading of historical documents--poetry as much as statistics--and focused on the conceptualization of technology, this book is an unconventional evocation of late colonial Netherlands East Indies (today Indonesia). In considering... (read more) List Price $45.25 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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International Relations in Southeast Asia: The Struggle for Autonomy: The Struggle for Autonomy (Asia in World Politics) by Donald E Weatherbee Publisher Comments This balanced, comprehensive guide to Southeast Asian politics offers a sensible but nondogmatic realist approach to the region's international relations. Donald E. Weatherbee lucidly explains the dynamics of the Southeast Asian subsystem as a struggle... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Golden Peninsula: Culture and Adaptation in Mainland Southeast Asia by Charles F. Keyes Publisher Comments The Golden Peninsula: Culture and Adaptation in Mainland Southeast Asia has long been recognized as the best all-around introduction to the diverse cultural traditions found in Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. First published in 1977, it... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $22.19 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Southeast Asian Affairs 2006 by Baljit Singh Publisher Comments Southeast Asian Affairs 2006 provides an informed and readable analysis of the events and developments in the region in 2005. The first four articles present the political and economic overview of the region, a nuanced analysis on terrorism, and the role... (read more) List Price $59.90 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Seeds of Terror: An Eyewitness Account of Al-Qaeda's Newest Center of Operations in Southeast Asia by Maria Ressa Publisher Comments For anyone wishing to understand the next, post-9/11 generation of al-Qaeda planning, leadership, and tactics, there is only one place to begin: Southeast Asia. In fact, such countries as the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia have been... (read more) Your price: $17.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Seeds of Terror: An Eyewitness Account of Al-Qaeda's Newest Center of Operations in Southeast Asia by Maria Ressa Publisher Comments For anyone wishing to understand the next, post-9/11 generation of al-Qaeda planning, leadership, and tactics, there is only one place to begin: Southeast Asia. In fact, such countries as the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia have been... (read more) Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Political Change in Southeast Asia: Trimming the Banyan Tree by Michael Vatikiotis Publisher Comments South-East Asia was one of the poorest regions in the world; it is now one of the most desirable areas for foreign investment. "Political Change in Southeast Asia" takes up the debate between those who resist the pressure for democracy and point to... (read more) List Price $81.50 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Politics of Elections in Southeast Asia (Woodrow Wilson Center Series) by R H Taylor Publisher Comments This volume examines the countries in Southeast Asia that have conducted multi-party elections.... (read more) List Price $45.75 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Emergence of Modern Southeast Asia by Norman G Owen Publisher Comments The modern states of Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore, Cambodia, Laos, Brunei, and East Timor were once a tapestry of kingdoms, colonies, and smaller polities linked by sporadic trade and occasional war. By the... (read more) List Price $31.00 Your price: $19.50 Used - Trade Paper
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In Liberal Doses by Marina Mahathir Synopsis Marina's "Musings" columns for The Star newspaper -- compassionate, outspoken, liberated, and unabashedly liberal -- are a talking point in Malaysia's capital and throughout the country. They began as a regular personal commentary on Marina's everyday... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Golden Peninsula: Culture and Adaptation in Mainland Southeast Asia (Shaps Library of Asian Studies) by Charles F Keyes Synopsis The Golden Peninsula: Culture and Adaptation in Mainland Southeast Asia has long been recognized as the best all-around introduction to the diverse cultural traditions found in Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. First published in 1977, it... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Modern Crises & Traditional Strategies by Roy Ellen Book News Annotation As our understanding of its significant role in economic development grew in the 1990s, many countries created plans and programs intended to support environmental sustainability. How well those plans and programs worked was put to the test in island... (read more) List Price $90.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Knowing Southeast Asian Subjects (Critical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies) by Laurie Sears Publisher Comments The essays in Knowing Southeast Asian Subjects ask how the rising preponderance of scholarship from Southeast Asia is de-centering Southeast Asian area studies in the United States. The contributions address recent transformations within the field and... (read more) List Price $35.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Southeast Asia in the New International Era by Clark D Neher Publisher Comments Clark Neher builds this text around the theme that Southeast Asian political developments must be seen within the context of the changing international system. Among the areas he explores are the national elections that have taken place in the... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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International Relations in Southeast Asia: The Struggle for Autonomy by Donald E. Weatherbee Publisher Comments This balanced, comprehensive guide to Southeast Asian politics offers a sensible but nondogmatic realist approach to the region's international relations. Donald E. Weatherbee lucidly explains the dynamics of the Southeast Asian subsystem as a struggle... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $33.64 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Out of the Shadow of Famine: Evolving Food Markets and Food Policy in Bangladesh by Raisuddin Ahmed Publisher Comments This book describes how Bangladesh transformed its food markets and food policies to free the country from the constant threat of famine. Since 1990, the Bangladeshi government has dismantled its food rationing system, privatized grain distribution... (read more) List Price $42.50 Your price: $18.95 Used - Trade Paper
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At War with Asia: Essays on Indochina by Noam Chomsky Publisher Comments Cultural Writing. Asian Studies. Reprint of a 1969 classic. An indispensable look at American military involvement in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos until 1970. Drawing in part on his visits to Asia and in part on his extensive reading in the field, Chomsky... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The River's Tale: A Year on the Mekong by Edward Gargan Publisher Comments Gargan's travels down the Mekong River reveal a frame of modernity settling uneasily on regions still mired in backwardness and poverty. 34 photos. 11 maps.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Tropical Interludes: European Life & Society in South-East Asia by Graham E Saunders Publisher Comments Europeans in South-East Asia sought refuge from their alien and exotic surroundings within the confines of their own settlement. This anthology, documenting experiences as recorded from the early 1800s up to the Second World War, depicts the lives of... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Forgotten Wars: Freedom and Revolution in Southeast Asia by Christopher Bayly Publisher Comments In September 1945, after the fall of the atomic bomb--and with it, the Japanese empire--Asia was dominated by the British. Governing a vast crescent of land that stretched from India through Burma and down to Singapore, and with troops occupying the... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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