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Pierre Asselin, “Vietnam’s American War: A History” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Pierre Asselin
Vietnam’s American War
A History
Cambridge University Press, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Southeast Asian StudiesNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network November 18, 2019 Michael G. Vann

Do we need another book on the Vietnam War? Pierre Asselin, Dwight E. Stanford Chair in the History of US Foreign Relations at San Diego State University, thinks that we do. While he has already published A Bitter Peace: Washington, Hanoi, and the Making of the Paris Agreement (2002) and... Read More
Claire Edington, “Beyond the Asylum: Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam” (Cornell UP, 2019)
Claire Edington
Beyond the Asylum
Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam
Cornell University Press, 2019

New Books in French StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in Southeast Asian StudiesNew Books Network November 13, 2019 Michael G. Vann

Both colonies and insane asylums are well known institutions of power. But what of asylums in Europe’s early 20th-century colonial empires? How did they operate? Who was confined in them? Who worked there? What was daily life like in such an institution? How did Western medical experts and the colonized... Read More
Alicia Izharuddin, “Gender and Islam in Indonesian Cinema” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
Alicia Izharuddin
Gender and Islam in Indonesian Cinema

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in FilmNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in Islamic StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in Southeast Asian StudiesNew Books Network November 12, 2019 Kristian Petersen

Since the fall of the Indonesian New Order regime in 1998 there has been a steady rise of Islamic popular culture in the nation. Muslim consumers and producers have cultivated a mediated domain where they can encounter commercial entertainment though the prism of spiritual reflection and piety. In Gender and... Read More
Alexander L. Hinton, “Man or Monster?: The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer” (Duke UP, 2016)
Alexander L. Hinton
Man or Monster?
The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer
Duke University Press, 2016

New Books in BiographyNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in LawNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Southeast Asian StudiesNew Books Network November 4, 2019 Kelly McFall

Can justice heal?  Must there be justice in order to heal?  Is there such a thing as justice, something to be striven for regardless of context? Alexander L. Hinton thinks through these questions in a pair of new books.  The two are companion pieces, each using Cambodia in a different... Read More
Wang Gungwu, “Home is Not Here” (NUS Press, 2018)
Wang Gungwu
Home is Not Here

NUS Press, 2018

New Books in BiographyNew Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Southeast Asian StudiesNew Books Network November 1, 2019 Patrick Jory

Wang Gungwu has long been recognized as a world authority on the history of China and the overseas Chinese. His work has been inspired by his own experience growing up Chinese in Southeast Asia, but with strong family, educational, and indeed emotional connections to China. In his new memoir, Home... Read More
David Biggs, “Footprints of War: Militarized Landscapes in Vietnam” (U Washington Press, 2018)
David Biggs
Footprints of War
Militarized Landscapes in Vietnam
University of Washington Press, 2018

New Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in GeographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Southeast Asian StudiesNew Books Network October 31, 2019 Michael G. Vann

By now we all know that Vietnam is a country, not a war. But how have decades, and even centuries, of war impacted the land of this southeast Asian nation? Professor David A. Biggs of the University of California, Riverside, specializes in Vietnamese environmental history. In Footprints of War: Militarized... Read More
Erik Harms, “Luxury and Rubble: Civility and Dispossession in the New Saigon” (U California Press, 2016)
Erik Harms
Luxury and Rubble
Civility and Dispossession in the New Saigon
University of California Press, 2016

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books in Southeast Asian StudiesNew Books Network October 22, 2019 Nick Cheesman

What happens when market-oriented policy reforms butt heads with a single-party state’s strictly maintained limits on political freedoms? That question sets the terms for Luxury and Rubble: Civility and Dispossession in New Saigon (University of California Press, 2016) by Erik Harms, an ethnography of two districts in Saigon, or Ho... Read More

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