Fair Land Sarawak
Fair Land Sarawak

Author: Alastair Morrison

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-05-31

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1501718800

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An officer's first-person account of British colonial disengagement from Sarawak. Morrison explains the daily bureaucracy of colonial life from an inside perspective and details the changes that occurred during his years in Sarawak: the growth and expansion of Communist movements, the emerging modernization of various districts, and the formation of Malaysia.

Fair Land Sarawak
Fair Land Sarawak

Author: Alastair Morrison

Publisher: SEAP Publications

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9780877277125

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An officer's first-person account of British colonial disengagement from Sarawak. Morrison explains the daily bureaucracy of colonial life from an inside perspective and details the changes that occurred during his years in Sarawak: the growth and expansion of Communist movements, the emerging modernization of various districts, and the formation of Malaysia.

Cutting Across the Lands
Cutting Across the Lands

Author: Eveline Ferretti

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-05-31

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1501719130

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An annotated bibliography focused on Borneo and the Southern Philippines. With over 1,000 citations, this reference work identifies patterns of forestland transformation common to the areas under consideration. A subject index is included.

Feasting and Social Oscillation
Feasting and Social Oscillation

Author: A. Thomas Kirsch

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-05-31

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13: 1501719327

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This work argues that anthropologists have observed and recorded religious rites and rituals but have largely ignored the role of religion when constructing an analytical framework. The author contends that religious phenomena are inextricably intertwined with issues of power, politics, and economics among the upland groups (such as the Kachin) of Southeast Asia.

The Revolution Falters
The Revolution Falters

Author: Patricio Abinales

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-05-31

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 1501719025

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A detailed investigation of the contemporary Philippine Left, focusing on the political challenges and dilemmas that confronted activists following the disintegration of the Marcos regime and the reestablishment of electoral democracy under Corazon Aquino. The authors focus on such varied topics as peasant politics, urban social movements, purges and executions, and Marxist theory.

The Hadrami Awakening
The Hadrami Awakening

Author: Natalie Mobini-Kesheh

Publisher: SEAP Publications

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 9780877277279

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A ground-breaking study of the Hadrami community in Indonesia. The book considers the evolution of Indonesian Arab identity in the context of the rise of nationalism throughout Southeast Asia during the early twentieth century.

Thailand
Thailand

Author: Thak Chaloemtiarana

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-08-06

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1501721100

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In 1958, Marshal Sarit Thanarat became prime minister of Thailand following a bloodless coup. This book offers a comprehensive study of Sarit's paternalistic, militaristic regime, which laid the foundations for Thailand's support of the US military campaign in Southeast Asia. The analysis documents the ways in which Sarit shaped modern Thai politics, in part by rationalizing a symbiotic relationship between his own office and the Thai monarchy.

A Man Like Him
A Man Like Him

Author: Ma Ma Leʺ

Publisher: SEAP Publications

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 087727777X

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The story of eight years in the brief life of Journal Kyaw U Chit Maung, a courageous Burmese journalist and editor. His political analyses helped guide the nation during a turbulent era marked by internal struggles to establish a democracy independent of Britain in the late 1930s and the Japanese Occupation of the 1940s. The memoir is written by U Chit Maung's wife, Journal Kyaw Ma Ma Lay, a resilient woman whose deep admiration and love for her uncompromising husband are captured here.

The Indonesian Supreme Court
The Indonesian Supreme Court

Author: Sebastiaan Pompe

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-05-31

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 150171886X

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Since the fall of Indonesian president Suharto, a major focus of the country's reformers has been the corrupt and inefficient judicial system. Within the context of a history of the Supreme Court in post-independence Indonesia, Sebastiaan Pompe analyzes the causes of the judiciary's failure over the last five decades. This study provides an essential background for those seeking to understand why legal reform has been so slow and frustrating in the post-1998 period.

Figures of Criminality in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Colonial Vietnam
Figures of Criminality in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Colonial Vietnam

Author: Vicente L. Rafael

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-05-31

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1501718878

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A complex examination of "criminality" and "the criminal" as constructs and active presences in Southeast Asia. Contributors explore such themes as surveillance, incarceration, law and custom, secrecy, and corruption. A fascinating study of power and subversion in the modern postcolonial nation-state. Contributors include Daniel S. Lev, Henk M. J. Maier, Rudolf Mrazek, James T. Siegel, and others.