Asia - History from The Penang Bookshelf

London: Chatto & Windus, 1951. Hardcover. Very Good. Mackenzie was commissioned by the Indian Army to write this history of the Indian Army in World War II because of his reputation as a novelist and writer of popular history. He was given access to army records and taken to various battlefields when preparing the work. The history was… Saber más sobre este artículo

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.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Singapore: Times Academic Press,Singapore, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Good/good. This is a collection of articles in journals and books from the noted scholar of the Chinese Diaspora in Southeast Asia between 1970 and 1990. The book looks at the historical perspective and how that is reflected in the Chinese diaspora of the late 20th century. Good Hardback… Saber más sobre este artículo

Australia: Rosenburg, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. New/new. A hundred years after the Portuguese set up trading posts and colonies stretching from India to China, British and Dutch traders followed to set up what eventually became the two dominant powers in the Malayan Archipelago. In this book, divided into three parts for each of the European powers, Burnet… Saber más sobre este artículo

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… Saber más sobre este artículo

Barnsley, UK: Pen and Sword, 2006. Hardcover. New/new. The author recounts how In two bold forays within 48 hours, the surprise attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbour and the sinking of the British battleships Prince of Wales and Repulse, the Japanese successfully emasculated Allied naval power in the Pacific and Indian oceans. In less than… Saber más sobre este artículo

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 2012 Edition. Paperback. New. Using previously unavailable archive sources, Jones explains the build up to the Konfrontasi between Indonesia and Malaysia and how Britain and the United States reacted to it. Macmillan considered the crisis as the most dangerous faced by Britain in Southeast Asia since the end of the world war. For… Saber más sobre este artículo

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… Saber más sobre este artículo

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… Saber más sobre este artículo

Berkeley, USA: University Of California Press, 2007. Paperback. New. A fascinating study of how the British used both the culture and peoples of India as a resource in subsequent imperial incursions elsewhere. Mughal architecture appeared in Malaya, where no Mughal had ever trod, and Indian indentured labour and fighting men underpinned colonial economies and security from in Africa,… Saber más sobre este artículo

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… Saber más sobre este artículo

Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. 14-6-16. The major part of this book consists of examples of buildings from the time of the Hindu/Buddhist civilisations that dominated the area prior to the arrival of Islam. There are also a few examples of buildings of indigenous peoples and Dutch and Portuguese colonial architecture.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Singapore: NUS Press, 2016. Paperback. New. In this book a group of academics, specialising in Asian studies, seek to answer the question - what is Asia? They look at the construct from many different angles including that of the Buddhist preacher Angarika Dharmapala, 20th century Indian cartographers, sportsmen and women, missionaries, the United States, and Japanese Civil Society.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Singapore: NUS Press, 2016. First edition. Paperback. New. A collection of papers that sets the movements to abolish slavery and servitude generally in the 19th century in a global context. Was it just a reaction to an international projection of British morality or were there other factors at work too? The book examines what was happening in… Saber más sobre este artículo

Singapore: NIAS Press, 2012. Revised. Paperback. New. This book, originally published in 1995 as 'Vietnamese Nationalism' is now republished with major revisions by the author. He looks at how nationalism in each of France's former Southeast Asian colonies developed under the shadow of a dominant Vietnamese influence. 163 pages. Weight 0.40 Kg. Airmail postage to Asia Pacific… Saber más sobre este artículo

Singapore: NUS Press, 2012. Paperback. New. A collection of essays on the myriad possible interpretations of the past, depending on both the nature of the interpreter's relation to the past event and her/his ability and willingness to influence others in incorporating that interpretation in pursuit of a present day agenda. The contributors examine events and their aftermath in… Saber más sobre este artículo

Pacifica Press (CA), 1994. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. 9-6-15zxzzz. The memoirs of a man who was introduced to Southeast Asia as a young business man in 1928, narrowly missed the fall of Singapore, worked with US navy intelligence in the Pacific War and then returned again to Southeast Asia for its post war reconstruction. 306 pages with a… Saber más sobre este artículo

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… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Frederick A Preger, 1962. Second printing. Hardcover. Fair. A review of Government operations against Communist guerillas in the Philippines at the height of the Cold War. 275 pages with suggestions for further reading. Weight: 0.7kg. Post free within Malaysia This book is only suitable as a reading copy as it has insect holes throughout. The binding… Saber más sobre este artículo

Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2015. First edition. Paperback. New. 13-5-15. The noted historian Wang Gungwu reflects, through a series of interviews, on trends in world history with a particular focus on the relationship between China, Europe, Southeast Asia and India. 254 pages. Please see the scan of the contents page for further details. Weight: 0.5kg. Post… Saber más sobre este artículo