New Books in Southeast Asian Studies

Anna M. Gade, “Muslim Environmentalisms: Religious and Social Foundations” (Columbia UP, 2019)

Anna M. Gade
Muslim Environmentalisms
Religious and Social Foundations
Columbia University Press, 2019

New Books in Anthropology New Books in Environmental Studies New Books in Islamic Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion New Books in Religion & Faith New Books in Science & Technology New Books in Southeast Asian Studies New Books Network January 24, 2020 Kristian Petersen

The relationship between Islam and the environment has a long and rich history across various Muslim societies. Anna M. Gade, Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, outlines several strains where these domains intersect in her book Muslim Environmentalisms: Religious and Social Foundations (Columbia University Press, 2019). Gade takes the reader through a number... Read More

Taomo Zhou, “Migration in the Time of Revolution: China, Indonesia and the Cold War” (Cornell UP, 2019)

Taomo Zhou
Migration in the Time of Revolution
China, Indonesia and the Cold War
Cornell University Press, 2019

New Books in East Asian Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Southeast Asian Studies New Books in World Affairs New Books Network December 17, 2019 Ed Pulford

If tales of China’s radical ‘opening up’ to the world over the last 30 years imply that the country was somehow ‘closed’ before this, then one need only think of Beijing’s dalliances with various potential socialist allies during the Cold War to dispel this impression. There is, moreover, another equally... Read More

Victoria Reyes, “Global Borderlands: Fantasy, Violence, and Empire in Subic Bay, Philippines” (Stanford UP, 2019)

Victoria Reyes
Global Borderlands
Fantasy, Violence, and Empire in Subic Bay, Philippines
Stanford University Press, 2019

New Books in Anthropology New Books in Critical Theory New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Sociology New Books in Southeast Asian Studies New Books in World Affairs New Books Network December 4, 2019 Richard E. Ocejo

Increasing levels of globalization have led to the proliferation of spaces of international exchange. In her new book, Global Borderlands: Fantasy, Violence, and Empire in Subic Bay, Philippines (Stanford University Press, 2019), sociologist Victoria Reyes looks at one such space, the Subic Bay Freeport Zone, in the Philippines, to understand... Read More

Michael G. Vann, “The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam” (Oxford UP, 2018)

Michael G. Vann
The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt
Empire, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam
Oxford University Press, 2018

New Books in French Studies New Books in History New Books in Medicine New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Science & Technology New Books in Science, Technology, and Society New Books in Southeast Asian Studies New Books Network November 26, 2019 Roxanne Panchasi

A funny thing happened to historian Michael Vann* on the way to his PhD thesis. While he was doing his research on French colonialism and the urbanist project in Hanoi, he came across an intriguing dossier: “Destruction of animals in the city”. The documents he found started him on a... Read More

Jeremy Yellen, “The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War” (Cornell UP, 2019)

Jeremy Yellen
The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
When Total Empire Met Total War
Cornell University Press, 2019

New Books in Australian and New Zealand Studies New Books in East Asian Studies New Books in History New Books in Military History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Southeast Asian Studies New Books Network November 25, 2019 Nathan Hopson

Jeremy Yellen’s The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War (Cornell University Press, 2019) is a challenging transnational exploration of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, Japan’s ambitious, confused, and much maligned attempt to create a new bloc order in East and Southeast Asia during World... Read More

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 Studies New Books in History New Books in Military History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Southeast Asian Studies New Books in World Affairs New 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 Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Psychology New Books in Science & Technology New Books in Science, Technology, and Society New Books in Southeast Asian Studies New 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