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Basingstoke Hampshire UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Hardcover. Good/very good +. This collection of essays looks at the role of the media in various parts of the British empire from Canada to Africa, Malaya and Australia. Perspectives of both the colonised and the colonisers are included in this comprehensive work that not only covers newspapers, but books, newsreel and wireless. 266 pages including a bibliography and index. Weight: 0.6.kg. * Post free within Malaysia. This is an ex library book with stickers on a front end paper and stamps on the same page the title page and the text block. A nice crisp copy.

Singapore: NUS Press, 2016. Paperback. New. A wide-ranging and well researched history of the transformation of Asian sportsmanship from being promoted as an adjunct to moral education by Christian missionaries into a source of nationalist pride. Huebner starts with The Far Eastern Championship Games in 1913. This is followed by its reincarnation as the Asian Games after World War II. The author then examines how the first seven Asian Games were harnessed by their respective hosts in Nehru's India, Magasaysay's Philippines, a 'Reborn' Japan, Sukarno's Indonesia, Thanarat's Thailand and finally, in 1974, the Shah's Iran. 397 pages with a bibliography and index. Weight: 0.9kg. Post free within Malaysia

Singapore: Eastern Universities Press, 2003. Second edition. Paperback. New. Acharya presents 12 essays from manuscripts of published articles together with a new introduction and conclusion. Focusing on the decade of the 1990s, they discuss such topics as regional approaches to security in the Third World, old patterns and new challenges for regional order and the ASEAN regional forum and security. 391 pages with an index. Weight 0.8kg. Post free within Malaysia

Sydney, Australia: Sydney University Press, 1975. First edition. As New/as new. A fascinating collection of papers from a wide range of academics looking at features of South, Southeast and East Asian biographies from early Buddhist times to the 20th century. The main stress in such biographies has not been so much to look at the individual and her/his private and public self but rather the public roles played by biographical subjects. Authors have been keen to stress the type, whether it be a model to be followed or despised. 217 pages with 21 black and white plates and an index. Weight: 0.8kg. Post free within Malaysia

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Branch Of The Royal Asiatic Society, 2007. Hardcover. New. Although Southeast Asia owes much of its current culture and character to the large Chinese migrations that took place from the late 18th century onwards, this collection of articles demonstrates that Chinese trade and migration had permeated the region for centuries before. The 18 articles, published by the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society and its predecessors between 1937 and 1999 include, amongst others, Paul Wheatley's Geographical Notes on Some Commodities Involved in the Sung Maritime Trade and Wang Gungwu's The Nanhai Trade. 654 pages including an index. Weight: 1.8kg. Post free within Malaysia, but, due to its weight, this book is likely to incur additional postal charges when posted outside Malaysia

Ithaca, USA: Cornell University Press, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good/good. The purpose of this book was to give readers a flavour of each Southeast Asian country's account of its own transformation since the end of the Second World War. To this end each country section has a collection of documents, major speeches and other writings from the relevant country introduced by a specialist in that country's affairs. 608 pages with a glossary and an index. Weight: 1.4kg Post free within Malaysia but will incur additional postage charges when posted elsewhere. The dust jacket has browned with age and has a few rubbing at the edges. There is a previous owner's name written neatly on the inside front cover. The end papers have shadows from the dust jacket flaps and some spotting. Otherwise the binding is tight, the text is clear and there is minimal tanning throughout.

Tuscon, Arizona: University of Arizona Press, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 18-5-15. The noted Southeast Asian scholar, tregonning, produced this bibliography as a guide to students studying the region, so covers mainly historical, sociological and economic texts. The subject matter is broken down into parts covering each of the component countries of the region. Each recommended text iks annotated with the author's comments. 103 pages Weight: 0.6kg. Post free within Malaysia This is an ex-library book where the original paperback has been rebound. There are some minor library marks but otherwise the book appears to be in an almost new condition.

Singapore: NUS Press, 2010. Paperback. New. New. This century is a period that's generally skipped over by historians because of the lack of documentary and inscriptional evidence. However, the academics who have contributed papers to this volume claim that this century laid the foundation for early modern Southeast Asia. The argument rests on developments such as the introduction of firearms, more intensive rice agriculture, Thai and Viet ceramic exports, Korean and Ryukyu contacts with Southeast Asia, the demise of Champa, the climax of Viet and northern Tai statecraft, the birth of the Melayu-Muslim kingship in Melaka and the creation of a new Muslim Javanese civilization on Java's north coast. Coincident with these changes, Ming China's engagement with Southeast Asia grew as a result of overland expansion into the Tai and Viet polities, state-sponsored maritime voyages, and private Chinese trade and migration to the region. 512 pages. New Paperback Weight 0.70 Kg. . Postage within Malaysia is free

London: Abacus, 1990. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good. This book resulted from a BBC radio series where Allen collected the recollections of fifty British men and women who went out East, mainly to Malaya, to seek their fortunes in the 1920s and 1930s. Although some Malaysians were interviewed, the story is told mainly by British expatriates. The book doesn't attempt to deal with the political issues surrounding colonialism but rather with what this mixed group of people made of life in the tropics. 319 pages. Weight 0.50 Kg. Postage within Malaysia is free. The text block is tanned. The binding is tight, the text is clear and there is mild tanning throughout.

Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Editions, 1986. Paperback. Near Fine. Wise has reproduces snippets from the accounts of about 70 mainly Europeans travellers from the 18th to the 20th century in the area around Hong Kong. They contain the expected mixture of adventure, awe, disdain, humour and understanding. 256 pages with an outline of the events taking place in the area during the period and an index. Weight 0.6kg. Post free within Malaysia Apart from some minimal cover wear, the book looks new.

Da Capo Press, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/fine. In this well researched book, Gordon, an academic with Asia as his specialty, demonstrates how travellers and academics of Asia and the Middle East laid the ground work that opened up Asia to, firstly, European colonists and subsequently to the focus of Western interest that continues to this day. The book's 220 pages includes at least 10 pages of maps and 16 pages of black and white illustrations as well as extensive source notes and suggested further reading on the subject matter of each chapter. Very Good Hardback in a Fine Dust Jacket The Contents include - 1 - Monasteries & Monarchs: Xuanzang, 2 - Caliph and Caravan: Ibn Fadlan, 3 - Philosopher and Physician: Ibn Sina, 4 - Ingots and Artifacts: The Intan Shipwreck, 5 - Pepper and Partnerships: Abraham Bin Yiju, 6 - Nobles and Notables: Ibn Battuta, 7 - Treasure and Treaty: Ma Huan, 8 - Blood and Salt: Babur, 9 - Medicines and Misunderstandings: Tome Pires and… Leer más

Da Capo Press, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/fine. In this well researched book, Gordon, an academic with Asia as his specialty, demonstrates how travellers and academics of Asia and the Middle East laid the ground work that opened up Asia to, firstly, European colonists and subsequently to the focus of Western interest that continues to this day. The book's 220 pages includes at least 10 pages of maps and 16 pages of black and white illustrations as well as extensive source notes and suggested further reading on the subject matter of each chapter. Near Fine Hardback in a Fine Dust Jacket The Contents include - 1 - Monasteries & Monarchs: Xuanzang, 2 - Caliph and Caravan: Ibn Fadlan, 3 - Philosopher and Physician: Ibn Sina, 4 - Ingots and Artifacts: The Intan Shipwreck, 5 - Pepper and Partnerships: Abraham Bin Yiju, 6 - Nobles and Notables: Ibn Battuta, 7 - Treasure and Treaty: Ma Huan, 8 - Blood and Salt: Babur, 9 - Medicines and Misunderstandings: Tome Pires and… Leer más

Singapore: NUS Press, 2013. Paperback. New. A collection of biographies of the vital, but often sidelined, element of nationalist movements - the role of women. On independence men become presidents or prime ministers and women usually only later can take on such roles because of their connections to a predeceased male relative who held high office. The editors instead concentrate mainly on women who were powerful change makers in their own right. 333 pages with an index and a bibliography. Weight: 0.7.kg.