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    Brother Number One: A Political Biography Of Pol Pot

    David P. Chandler

    David P. Chandler throws light on the shadowy figure of Pol Pot, illuminating the ideas and behavior of him and his entourage against the background of post-World War II events…

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    Brother Number One: A Political Biography Of Pol Pot

    David P Chandler

    David P. Chandler throws light on the shadowy figure of Pol Pot. Basing his study on interviews and on a wide range of sources in English, Cambodian, and French, the…

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    The Tragedy of Cambodian History: Politics, War, and Revolution since 1945

    David P. Chandler

    An account of Cambodian history from World War II up to 1979, focusing on the civil war period and the revolutionary excesses of the Pol Pot regime. Chandler considers why…

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    A History of Cambodia

    David P. Chandler

    Provides an overview of Cambodia, a small but increasingly visible Southeast Asian nation. This edition includes material examining the early history of Cambodia, whose famous Angkorean ruins attract more than…

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    The Khmers

    Ian Mabbett,David P. Chandler

    A history of the traditional civilization of the Khmers or Cambodians. Early chapters describe the origins of Khmer identity, the influence of their environment, prehistory, the development of states in…

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    Facing the Khmer Rouge: A Cambodian Journey

    Ronnie Yimsut

    As a child growing up in Cambodia, Ronnie Yimsut played among the ruins of the Angkor Wat temples, surrounded by a close-knit community. As the Khmer Rouge gained power and…

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    Facing the Khmer Rouge: A Cambodian Journey

    Ronnie Yimsut

    As a child growing up in Cambodia, Ronnie Yimsut played among the ruins of the Angkor Wat temples, surrounded by a close-knit community. As the Khmer Rouge gained power and…

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    Stay Alive, My Son

    Pin Yathay

    In 1975, the Republic of Cambodia was pulled apart under the forces of Pol Pot. Pin Yathay, an engineer employed by the Ministry of Public Works, was a witness to…

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    End of Empire: 100 Days in 1945 That Changed Asia and the World

    * Charts 100 days of dreams, drama and turmoil across eastern Asia at the end of World War II. * Combines daily events with commentary, photographs, maps and personal accounts…

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    End of Empire: 100 Days in 1945 That Changed Asia and the World

    *Charts 100 days of dreams, drama and turmoil across eastern Asia at the end of World War II. * Combines daily events with commentary, photographs, maps and personal accounts. *…

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    Traces of Trauma: Cambodian Visual Culture and National Identity in the Aftermath of Genocide

    Boreth Ly

    How do the people of a morally shattered nation find ways to go on living? Cambodians confronted this challenge following the collective disasters of the American bombing, the civil war…

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    Imperial Intoxication: Alcohol and the Making of Colonial Indochina

    Gerard Sasges

    Provides a unique window on Indochina between 1860 and 1939. This study illuminates the contradictory mix of modern and archaic, power and impotence, civil bureaucracy and military occupation that characterized…

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    Saving Buddhism: The Impermanence of Religion in Colonial Burma

    Alicia Turner

    Explores the dissonance between the goals of the colonial state and the Buddhist worldview that animated Burmese Buddhism at the turn of the twentieth century. Saving Buddhism contributes to ongoing…

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    Embodied Nation: Sport, Masculinity, and the Making of Modern Laos

    Simon Creak

    This strikingly original book examines how sport and ideas of physicality have shaped the politics and culture of modern Laos. Viewing the country’s extraordinary transitions through the lens of physical…

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    Imperial Intoxication: Alcohol and the Making of Colonial Indochina

    Gerard Sasges

    Provides a unique window on Indochina between 1860 and 1939. This book illuminates the contradictory mix of modern and archaic, power and impotence, civil bureaucracy and military occupation that characterized…

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    Traces of Trauma: Cambodian Visual Culture and National Identity in the Aftermath of Genocide

    Boreth Ly

    Explores the traces of Cambodia’s haunting past in order to understand how Cambodians at home and in the diasporas deal with trauma on such a vast scale. Boreth Ly maintains…

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    The Lost Territories: Thailand’s History of National Humiliation

    Shane Strate,David P. Chandler,Rita Smith Kipp

    Examines two important and contrasting strands of Thai historiography: the well-known Royal-Nationalist ideology, which celebrates Thailand’s long history of uninterrupted independence; and what the author terms ‘National Humiliation discourse’, its…

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    Familial Properties: Gender, State, and Society in Early Modern Vietnam, 1463-1778

    Nhung Tuyet Tran

    Offers the first full-length history of Vietnamese gender relations in the precolonial period. Nhung Tuyet Tran shows how, despite the bias in law and practice of a patrilineal society based…

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    The Uprooted: Race, Children, and Imperialism in French Indochina, 1890-1980

    Christina Elizabeth Firpo

    For over a century French officials in Indochina systematically uprooted metis children - those born of Southeast Asian mothers and white, African, or Indian fathers - from their homes. The…

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    Caged in on the Outside: Moral Subjectivity, Selfhood, and Islam in Minangkabau, Indonesia

    Gregory M. Simon

    An intimate ethnographic exploration of the ways in which Minangkabau people understand human value. Gregory Simon’s book, based on extended ethnographic research in the small city of Bukittinggi, shines new…

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    Familial Properties: Gender, State, and Society in Early Modern Vietnam, 1463-1778

    Nhung Tuyet Tran

    Offers the first full-length history of Vietnamese gender relations in the precolonial period. Nhung Tuyet Tran shows how, despite the bias in law and practice of a patrilineal society based…

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    In Pursuit of Progress: Narratives of Development on a Philippine Island

    Hannah C. M. Bulloch

    Drawing on a decade of ethnographic research on the Philippine island of Siquijor, this volume explores myths, meanings, and practices of development and its counterparts, progress and modernization. It does…

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    In Pursuit of Progress: Narratives of Development on a Philippine Island

    Hannah C. M. Bulloch

    Drawing on a decade of ethnographic research on the Philippine island of Siquijor, In Pursuit of Progress explores myths, meanings, and practices of development and its counterparts, progress and modernization…

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