The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia 4 volume Paperback Set (Cambridge History of Southeast Asia)

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In these four volumes, now published in paperback, 22 scholars of international reputation consider the whole of mainland and island Southeast Asia from Burma to Indonesia. Each volume has a new preface which points to the relationships with the other volumes. The prefaces also comment on some of the research into and thinking about the subject undertaken since the original contributions were completed for the first edition. Volume I charts Southeast Asiaâ€™s beginnings, from prehistory to c. 1500. Volume II discusses Southeast Asiaâ€™s interaction with foreign countries during the period c. 1500 to c. 1800. Volume III charts the establishment of the colonial rÃ©gimes during the period c. 1800 to 1930. Volume IV covers the period from World War II to the present.

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In these four volumes, now published in paperback, 22 scholars of international reputation consider the whole of mainland and island Southeast Asia from Burma to Indonesia. Each volume has a new preface which points to the relationships with the other volumes. The prefaces also comment on some of the research into and thinking about the subject undertaken since the original contributions were completed for the first edition. Volume I charts Southeast Asia's beginnings, from prehistory to c. 1500. Volume II discusses Southeast Asia's interaction with foreign countries during the period c. 1500 to c. 1800. Volume III charts the establishment of the colonial régimes during the period c. 1800 to 1930. Volume IV covers the period from World War II to the present.

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Very informative study of Southeast Asian history........1999-11-07

I am a casual history buff interested in S.E. Asian history. I found the book very informative and enjoyed its thematic approach to S.E. Asian history in contrast to presenting it on a country-by-country basis. The book is intensive reading, especially for those of us who are not history majors. But if one is looking for a text with lots of information that is well researched, then this book fits the bill. Happy reading.

Thailand's Secret War: OSS, SOE and the Free Thai Underground During World War II (Cambridge Military Histories)

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Thailand's Secret War: OSS, SOE and the Free Thai Underground During World War II (Cambridge Military Histories)
E. Bruce Reynolds
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ASIN: 0521836018

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Despite its 1941 alliance with Japan, Thai leaders managed to establish clandestine relations with China, Britain and the United States, each of which had ambitions for postwar influence in Bangkok. Based largely on recently declassified intelligence records, this narrative history thoroughly explores these relations, details Allied secret operations and sheds new light on the intense rivalry between the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) and the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS).

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The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia

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ASIN: 0521663717

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Volume 3 charts the establishment of the colonial régimes during the period c. 1800 to 1930 and defines this period as one of intensified European penetration, political consolidation by the dominant states, and economic transformation. Anti-classical and nationalist movements are discussed.

The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia, Vol. 2, Part 2: From World War II to the Present

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A very scholarly book

The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia, Vol. 2, Part 2: From World War II to the Present

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ASIN: 0521663725

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Volume 4 covers the period from World War II to the present and examines the end of European colonial empires, the emergence of political structures of the independent states, economic and social change, religious change in contemporary Southeast Asia, Southeast Asia's role and identity in decolonization, and the ongoing weakening of links with the West.

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A very scholarly book.......2001-04-08

The thematic approach of the book deviates from the usual country-to-country approach espoused my most authors on the subject. It gives the reader a better understanding of the milestones and institutions of Souutheast Asia. It is more of a "why" and "how" approach, instead of the "who", "what", and "when" approach. In short, very scholarly!

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Excellent Introduction to the Early History of SE Asia

The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia

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ASIN: 0521663709

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Volume 2 discusses Southeast Asia's interaction with foreign countries during the period c. 1500 to c. 1800. Of specific interest is increased trade with China, India and Europe. The spread of Islam and Christianity in the period is shown to change Southeast Asia dramatically. A concluding chapter deals with the transitional nature of the late eighteenth century.

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In these four volumes, now published in paperback, twenty-one scholars of international reputation consider the whole of mainland and island Southeast Asia from Burma to Indonesia. Volume 1 charts Southeast Asia's beginnings, from prehistory to c. 1500. Accounts are given of Southeast Asia's early development, based on archaeological and anthropological evidence; the establishment of kingdoms such as Sri Vijaya, Champa, Angkor, Pagan, and of the Vietnamese state; and the period's economic history, religions and popular beliefs.

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Excellent Introduction to the Early History of SE Asia.......2005-01-18

Southeast Asia is often the forgotten sister of Asia in that when people study the region or mention it, they talk about China, Japan or India, and when Southeast Asia IS referred to, it is often in context with the Vietnam War and subsequent spinoff conflicts resulting from that war. This is unfortunate, as Southeast Asia has a rich history with a variety of interesting and highly successful cultures.

In this first of four volumes, Southeast Asia from prehistoric times to about A.D. 1500 is discussed in depth in five chapters written by different scholars addressing their individual specialties in the region. This is what sets Cambridge Histories apart from most others.

J.D. Legge's article addresses the very history of the writting of Southeast Asia. He discusses in depth the differences between Pre WWII and Post WWII scholarship. World War II is when the region caught the attention of scholars due to importants in the war, and consequently, SE Asia studies programs blossomed, both in Western countries as well as in the Pacific Asia region.

Peter Bellwood talks about prehistoric Southeast Asia. The various environmental regions (especially of the island regions) is explored in depth. Also of import is the expansion of Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) languages from its hearth in Taiwan into Southeast Asia and its consequent spread both eastward into the Pacific as well as westward to Madagascar off the African coast.

Keith Taylor discusses the early kingdoms of the region. Vietnam, Champa, Angkor (Cambodia), Pagan (Burma), Ayutthaya (Thailand), Srivajaya (mostly Southern Sumatra) and Majapahit (Java) are discussed in detail. Their evolution as Indianized states (with the exception of Vietnam) is discussed, and the conventional wisdom of the nature of that Indianization is challenged in convincing fashion.

Kenneth Hall talks about the nature of the economies of the early Southeast Asian kingdoms. He makes the distinctions between rice-based economies and those based on trade. Especially successful was East Java due to its access both to rich agricultural areas and its geographic proximity to the Spice Islands over which much of the world trade focused on during that time in history. The case is made that this region of Southeast Asia dominated global trade in the centuries leading up to the 16th century.

J.G. de Casparis and I.W. Mabbett discusses religion, and once again, the issue of Indianization pops up. The differentiation of mainland and island Southeast Asia is brought up, concluding with the beginnings of Islam in kingdoms like Aceh as we approach the 16th century.

This is all highly academic, as one would expect from Cambridge. However, this also reflects the most recent scholarship on this very diverse and fascinating region of the world. Given the importance of this region today in terms of global trade and the war on terror, an understanding of this region has never been more important. This book has a lot to recommend it for a study of the early history of the region. I am looking forward to going through later volumes.

Asian Freedoms: The Idea of Freedom in East and Southeast Asia (Cambridge Asia-Pacific Studies)

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Asian Freedoms: The Idea of Freedom in East and Southeast Asia (Cambridge Asia-Pacific Studies)

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This book argues that Western ideas of freedom have become widely accepted in Asia as the key determinant for measuring a range of legal, ethical and political practices. The book finds that modern conceptions of freedom have become adapted to local contexts throughout Asia. The book avoids cultural relativism and generalizations, but does find a number of common ideas relating to freedom across the region. A prestigious group of contributors explores freedom from historical, religious, political and ideological perspectives.

Decolonizing International Health: India and Southeast Asia, 1930-65 (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies)

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Decolonizing International Health: India and Southeast Asia, 1930-65 (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies)
Sunil S. Amrith
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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ASIN: 1403985936
Release Date: 2006-12-26

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In the middle decades of the twentieth century, Asia was at the heart of international efforts to create a new utopia: a world free from disease. Positioned at the unexplored boundary between international history and the history of colonial/postcolonial medicine, the book is a political, intellectual, and social history of public health in Asia, from the 1930s to the early 1960s. The discussion takes India as its core focus, but highlights the international networks connecting developments in India with the Asian region and the wider world, from Rangoon to New York. Drawing on a diverse range of sources, the book contributes to debates on nationalism, internationalism and the post-colonial State.

Cambridge History of Islam : The Indian Sub-Continent, Southeast Asia, Africa and the Muslim West (Volume 2, Part A)

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World History of Islam (pre-1950) several volumes

Cambridge History of Islam : The Indian Sub-Continent, Southeast Asia, Africa and the Muslim West (Volume 2, Part A)

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ASIN: 0521291372

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First published in 1970, The Cambridge History of Islam is the most comprehensive and ambitious collaborative survey of Islamic history and civilization yet to appear in English. On publication it was welcomed as a work useful both for reference and reading, for the general reader, student and specialist alike. It has now been reprinted, with corrections, and for ease of handling the original two hardcover volumes have each been divided into two separate paperbacks.

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World History of Islam (pre-1950) several volumes.......2005-11-20

The Cambridge History of Islam, editors: P.M. Holt, Anne Lambton, and Bernard Lewis. 1970 hardback, 2 vols.(reprinted 1992, 1994, 1995?): Vol.1: "The Central Islamic Lands"; Vol.2: "The Further Islamic Lands--Islamic Society & Organization"; (1,781 pgs). This two-volume set begins with Arabia before the Prophet Muhammad. The books provide "a comprehensive history of the Muslim lands over more than 13 centuries, to the years following the Second World War. They attempt to view Islam as a cultural whole and to enable the reader to follow all the threads -- historical, theological, philosophical, political, economic, scientific, military, artistic -- related to the rise, spread, and development of Islamic civilization." There are numerous maps and photographs. 1977: issued in paperback in 4 volumes. Vol. 1A: "The Rise and Domination of the Arabs" (Pre-Muslim Arabia.-1918) [Parts I-III] {ISBN:0-521-291-356}; Vol. 1B: "The Central Islamic Lands since 1918" [Part IV] {ISBN:0-521-291-364}; Vol. 2A "The Indian Sub-continent, Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Muslim West" [Parts V-VIII] {ISBN:0-521-291-372}; Vol. 2B "Islamic Society and Civilization" [Part VIII] {ISBN:0-521-291-380}. The four paperback volumes comprise the eight parts of the original two volume hardcover edition. 1978: 4 vols. in hardback. Other reprints since the 1980s. Be aware of which volume you are buying.

Public Health in Papua New Guinea: Medical Possibility and Social Constraint, 18841984 (Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine)

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Public Health in Papua New Guinea: Medical Possibility and Social Constraint, 18841984 (Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine)
Donald Denoon , Kathleen Dugan , and Leslie Marshall
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This book concerns the development of institutional medicine, medical practice and health care during the initial colonisation and later colonial rule of Papua New Guinea. It discusses the relationship between public health and the medical profession and colonial bureaucracy, and also analyses the professionâ€™s social and technical ideas which determined the kinds of health policies and programmes attempted. The first part describes the era of tropical medicine which predominated at the turn of the century and survived until the 1950s. The second part investigates the transformation of tropical medicine by the introduction of new drugs and the curative campaigns of the 1950s and 1960s, and thereafter discusses the emergence of a new medical strategy known as â€~primary health careâ€™. This original, comparative study will be of value not only to anthropologists and historians of tropical medicine but also to historians of colonialism and its effects on public health care.

The Archaeology of Mainland Southeast Asia: From 10,000 B.C. to the Fall of Angkor (Cambridge World Archaeology)

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The Archaeology of Mainland Southeast Asia

The Archaeology of Mainland Southeast Asia: From 10,000 B.C. to the Fall of Angkor (Cambridge World Archaeology)
Charles Higham
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ASIN: 0521275253

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Southeast Asia was the scene of one of the worldâ€™s major civilisations, that of Angkor, until it was sacked in the early fifteenth century. The origins of Angkor were barely known until recent archaeological excavation and field research began to reveal the regionâ€™s dynamic development and to raise new questions to serve in its understanding. This important new synthesis focuses on the social world of early mainland Southeast Asia: Thailand, Vietnam, Kampuchea, Laos and adjacent areas. The book begins when the area was occupied 12,000 years ago by hunters and gatherers. The author stresses the importance of sedentism and domestication. These encouraged the spread of coastal communities into the interior valleys. Particular relevance is seen in the exchange of valuables, including bronze, as symbols of status. The origins of civilisation, for long assumed to result from Indian expansion in the region, are seen as rooted in local changes, along with the selective adoption of Indian religious and political ideas within coastal cheifdoms. In bridging the gap between prehistory and history, this book will appeal not only to archaeologists but to those interested in the general history, culture and arts of Asia.

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The Archaeology of Mainland Southeast Asia.......2003-08-18

This is really two books in one. Its first two hundred pages are about the prehistory of Southeast Asia, up to the emergence of chiefdoms towards the end of the first millennium B.C. An additional one hundred fifty pages take the story forward, from the beginning of state formation and written history through the development (but excluding the art history) of Angkor.

Prospective readers should be aware that this is a technical book that is directed to a specialist audience, namely, archaeologists and archaeology students; people who do not fit into either of those categories, may find that the book is too difficult or has more detail than they want.

On the other hand, people who are in the book's target audience as described above, should find the book generally suitable as a synopsis of mainland Southeast Asian archaeology (excluding Burma), circa 1989. Detailed site information is presented within a framework whose themes include sedentism, trade, subsistence, social organization, religion and ritual, and access to resources. Continuity of cultural development in Southeast Asia is emphasized, and in particular the origin of civilization in Southeast Asia is seen as a consequence of local and incremental adaptations to Indian religious and political ideas, rather than as a wholesale replacement of indigenous cultural practices by Indian ones.

My paperback copy bears the notice: "Transferred to Digital Reprinting 1999". The book is entirely in black-and-white. The visual appearance of its text is glossy and saturated, but readable. Line drawings show up very well. The quality of photographic reproduction, however, is unacceptable (the same or worse as one might see in a newspaper). However, since its few photographs seem incidental to the text in any case, this need not discourage people from buying the book in its current, "digital reprint", incarnation.

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Beyond the Atmosphere Early Years of Space Science: The NASA History Series
Homer E. Newell
Manufacturer: Washington, D. C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1980
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ASIN: B000NZ3J50

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Beyond the Atmosphere, Early Years of Space Science
Homer E. Newell
Manufacturer: Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics & Space Administration, 1980
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BEYOND THE ATMOSPHERE: EARLY YEARS OF SPACE SCIENCE
Homer E Newell
Manufacturer: NASA
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Beyond the Atmosphere: Early years of space science (The NASA history series)
Homer E. Newell
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Beyond the atmosphere: Early years of space science (The NASA history series)
Homer Edward Newell
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ASIN: B0006E3ZOS

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Beyond the Atmosphere; Early Years of Space Science
Homer E. Newell
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