Kammen, Douglas, Three Centuries of Conflict in East Timor, US: Rutgers University Press, 2015. Why does violence recur in some places, over long periods of time? Douglas Kammen explores this pattern in Three Centuries of Conflict in East Timor, studying that island’s… Continue Reading
Abraham, Itty, How India Became Territorial, California, US: Stanford University Press, 2014. Why do countries go to war over disputed lands? Why do they fight even when the territories in question are economically and strategically worthless? Drawing on critical approaches… Continue Reading
It’s a Living – Work and Life in Vietnam Today by Gerard Sasges (ed.) has been selected by CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries as a “highly recommended” read. Check out the review by Peters, E.J. below. It’s a Living… Continue Reading
Assoc Prof John Miksic’s latest book, “Singapore & The Silk Road of the Sea, 1300-1800” was recently reviewed by The Taipei Times. The book review was contributed by reporter Jerome Keating. Read the full review here. Read abstract of the… Continue Reading
Pholsena, Vatthana and Oliver Tappe (eds.), Interactions with a Violent Past: Reading Post-Conflict Landscapes in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, Singapore/Thailand: NUS Press and IRASEC, 2013 The Second and Third Indochina Wars are the subject of important ongoing scholarship, but there… Continue Reading
Pre-Raffles S’pore: A thriving port. It was a centre of commerce and culture in 14th century, The Straits Times, Saturday 9 November 2013. Think of a Singapore which has defences against invasion. Money is a fixture of everyday life. The economy… Continue Reading
Miksic, John N, Singapore and the Silk Road of the Sea, 1300-1800, Singapore: NUS Press, 2013. Beneath the modern skyscrapers of Singapore lie the remains of a much older trading port, prosperous and cosmopolitan and a key node in the maritime… Continue Reading
Vietnam as a work in progress – New book shows how family anchors the self in ebb and flow of economy, The Straits Times, Saturday 21 September 2013. THIS book of interviews reveals the raw hunger for a better life, the… Continue Reading
Sasges, Gerard (ed.) It’s a Living: Work and Life in Vietnam Today, Singapore: NUS Press, 2013. Through interviews and 70 photographs, It’s a Living reveals the energy and struggle of the world of work in Vietnam today. A goldfish peddler… Continue Reading
Paredes, Oona, A Mountain of Difference – The Lumad in Early Colonial Mindanao, Ithaca: Cornell Southeast Asia Program Publications, 2013 A Mountain of Difference recasts the early colonial encounter between the indigenous Lumad and Christian missionaries in the southern Philippines.… Continue Reading