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Essential Outsiders
Chinese and Jews in the Modern Transformation of Southeast Asia and Central Europe
Ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia, like Jews in Central Europe until the Holocaust, have been remarkably successful as an entrepreneurial and professional minority. Whole regimes have sometimes relied on the financial underpinnings of Chinese business...
ISBN: 9780295976136
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The Background to the Aceh Problem
In Indonesia's westernmost province of Aceh, the democratization process that began in Indonesia in 1998 encouraged the overt expression of regionalist sentiment and resentment of the military. The surprising extent of both feelings made Aceh,...
ISBN: 9780295986333
more detailsCharting the Shape of Early Modern Southeast Asia
In this volume Anthony Reid positions Southeast Asia on the stage of world history. He argues that the region not only had a historical character of its own, but that it played a crucial role...
ISBN: 9789747551068
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