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America

Cold War Monks Buddhism and America's Secret Strategy in Southeast Asia

Ford Eugene

ISBN: HB: 9780300218565, Yale University Press, February 2018
392 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

How did the U.S. government make use of a "Buddhist policy" in Southeast Asia during the Cold War despite the American principle that the state should not meddle with religion? To answer this question, Eugene Ford delved deep into an unprecedented ra...

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Military

Asia

Khe Sanh Siege in the Clouds. An Oral History

Hammel Eric

ISBN: PB: 9781612005904, Casemate, February 2018
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 pages of photos

In late 1967 as part of the Tet offensive, U.S. commanders hoped to lure the North Vietnamese Army into exposing large numbers of soldiers to their overwhelming air power. But in January 1968, a U.S. Marine Corps force found themselves surrounded by...

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Asia

China Visions through the Ages

Niziolek Lisa C., Bekken Deborah A., Feinman Gary M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226385372, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
354 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 225 colour plates, 1 table

At the entrance of The Field Museum's Cyrus Tang Hall of China, two Chinese stone guardian lions stand tall, gazing down intently at approaching visitors. One lion's paw rests upon a decorated ball symbolizing power, while the other lion cradles a cu...

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Asia

Islam

Rohingyas Inside Myanmar's Genocide

Ibrahim Azeem

ISBN: PB: 9781849049733, Hurst Publishers, February 2018
256 pp., 21.3x13.7 cm

For sale in CIS only! According to the United Nations, Myanmar's Rohingyas are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. Only now has the media turned its attention to their plight at the hands of a country led by Nobel Peace Prize laureat...

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General

Asia

Songs for Dead Parents Corpse, Text, and World in Southwest China

Mueggler Erik

ISBN: PB: 9780226481005, ISBN: HB: 9780226483382, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 8 tables

In a society that has seen epochal change over a few generations, what remains to hold people together and offer them a sense of continuity and meaning? In "Songs for Dead Parents", Erik Mueggler shows how in contemporary China death and the practice...

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Asia

Terrestrial Lessons The Conquest of the World as Globe

Ramaswamy Sumathi

ISBN: HB: 9780226476575, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
416 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 51 halftones

Why and how do debates about the form and disposition of our Earth shape enlightened subjectivity and secular worldliness in colonial modernity? Sumathi Ramaswamy explores this question for British India with the aid of the terrestrial globe, which s...

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Sign Language

Asia

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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Middle East

Asia

Red Star and the Crescent China and the Middle East

Reardon-Anderson James

ISBN: PB: 9781849048217, Hurst Publishers, June 2017
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "The Red Star and the Crescent" provides an in-depth and multi-disciplinary analysis of the evolving relationship between China and the Middle East. Despite its increasing importance, very few studies have examined this dynamic...

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Asia

Political Science

Hell No The Forgotten Power of the Vietnam Peace Movement

Hayden Tom

ISBN: HB: 9780300218671, Yale University Press, May 2017
168 pp., 21x14 cm

Why those who protested the Vietnam War must be honored, remembered, and appreciated. "Hell no" was the battle cry of the largest peace movement in American history – the effort to end the Vietnam War, which included thousands of veterans. The movem...

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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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