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Autore |
Kahin George McTurnan |
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Titolo |
Southeast Asia : a testament / / George McT. Kahin |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London ; ; New York, : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003 |
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1-134-42311-X |
9971-988-98-4 |
0-415-29976-4 |
1-134-42312-8 |
1-280-05672-X |
0-203-30112-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (375 p.) |
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Collana |
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Critical Asian scholarship |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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International relations |
Southeast Asia History 1945- |
Southeast Asia Foreign relations United States |
United States Foreign relations Southeast Asia |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [314]-337) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Southeast Asia: A Testament covers the tragic history of post war Indonesia from its successful struggle against the Dutch to Suharto's bloody overthrow of Sukarno in 1965. It also gives a personal account of the US involvement in Indochina, where George Kahin was an early critic of the Vietnam war and struggled to open the eyes of policy makers to the historical, political and military realities of the Vietnamese situation. Kahin also witnessed the reluctant involvement of Cambodia in the conflict, and the 1970 coup against Prince Sihanouk which paved the way for the Communist acce |
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