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Down and Out in Saigon Stories of the Poor in a Colonial City

Cherry Haydon

ISBN: PB: 9780300218251, Yale University Press, July 2019
280 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

Historian Haydon Cherry offers the first comprehensive social history of the urban poor of colonial French Saigon by following the lives of six individuals – a prostitute, a Chinese laborer, a rickshaw puller, an orphan, an incurable invalid, and a p...

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Literary Criticism

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Korean Treasures, Volume 2 Rare Books, Manuscripts and Artefacts in the Bodleian Libraries and Museums of Oxford University

Chung Minh

ISBN: HB: 9781851245260, Bodleian Library Publishing, May 2019
160 pp., 25x21 cm, 120 colour illus.

Many important and valuable rare books, manuscripts and artefacts related to Korea have been acquired by donations throughout the long history of the Bodleian Libraries and the museums of the University of Oxford. However, due to an early lack of spe...

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Hinduism

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Majoritarian State How Hindu Nationalism is Changing India

Chatterji Angana P., Blom Hansen Thomas, Jaffrelot Christophe

ISBN: HB: 9781787381476, Hurst Publishers, March 2019
472 pp., 21.6x13.4 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Majoritarian State" traces the ascendance of Hindu nationalism in contemporary India. Led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the BJP administration has established an ethno-religious and populist style of rule since 2014. Its ag...

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U.S. Army Special Warfare and the Secret War in Laos 1959-74 The Green Berets in the Land of a Million Elephants

Celeski Joseph

ISBN: HB: 9781612006659, Casemate, January 2019
400 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

The Secret War in Laos was one of the first "Long Wars" for special operations, spanning a period of about thirteen years. It was one of the largest CIA-paramilitary operations of the time, kept out of the view of the American public until now. Bet...

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Sign Language

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Deaf to the Marrow Deaf Social Organizing and Active Citizenship in Viet Nam

Cooper Audrey C.

ISBN: HB: 9781563686856, Gallaudet University Press, October 2017
256 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 40 photographs, 1 map

In "Deaf to the Marrow", public anthropologist Audrey C. Cooper examines the social production and transformation of ideas about language, bodies, and state-structured educational institutions in southern Viet Nam. Focusing on the reform period (1986...

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Asia

Blood, Dreams and Gold The Changing Face of Burma

Cockett Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780300225976, ISBN: HB: 9780300204513, Yale University Press, March 2017
296 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Burma is one of the largest countries in Southeast Asia and was once one of its richest. Under successive military regimes, however, the country eventually ended up as one of the poorest countries in Asia, a byword for repression and ethnic violence....

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Oil and Water Being Han in Xinjiang

Cliff Tom

ISBN: PB: 9780226360133, ISBN: HB: 9780226359939, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates, 44 halftones, 1 table

For decades, China's Xinjiang region has been the site of clashes between long-residing Uyghur and Han settlers. Up until now, scholars of China have focused primarily on state actions and Uyghur efforts to resist cultural and economic repression. Th...

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Literary Criticism

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Korean Treasures, Volume 1 Rare Books, Manuscripts and Artefacts in the Bodleian Libraries and Museums of Oxford University

Chung Minh

ISBN: HB: 9781851242870, Bodleian Library Publishing, December 2011
112 pp., 25x21 cm, 82 colour illus.

Many important and valuable manuscripts, rare books, and artefacts related to Korea have been acquired by donations throughout the long history of the Bodleian Library and the museums of the University of Oxford. However, due to an early lack of spec...

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War and Peace in the Caucasus Russia's Troubled Frontiers

Cheterian Vicken

ISBN: PB: 9781850659877, Hurst Publishers, February 2009
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! After the collapse of the Soviet Union the Caucasus was wracked by ethnic and separatist violence as the peoples of the region struggled for self-determination. Vicken Cheterian, who spent many years as a reporter and analyst c...

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