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  • - Impunity and Human Rights in Thailand
    av Tyrell Haberkorn
    337

    Following a 1932 coup d'etat in Thailand that ended absolute monarchy and established a constitution, the Thai state that emerged has suppressed political dissent through detention, torture, forced reeducation, disappearances, assassinations, and massacres. In Plain Sight shows how these abuses, both hidden and occurring in public view, have become institutionalized.

  • - Philippine Trials of Japanese War Criminals
    av Sharon W. Chamberlain
    1 301

    Examination of postwar trials is now a thriving area of research, but Sharon W. Chamberlain is the first to offer an authoritative assessment of the legal proceedings convened in the Philippines. These were trials conducted by Asians, not Western powers, and centred on the abuses suffered by local inhabitants rather than by prisoners of war.

  • av Daniel F. Doeppers
    487 - 1 121

    The first book to explore the critical problem of provisioning the "megacity." A historical study of Manila looks at the continuing challenges of getting food, water, and services to the millions of people who live in the world's megacities.

  • - The Politics of Humor in the Vessantara Jataka in Thailand
    av Katherine A. Bowie
    351 - 911

    An exploration of subversive, ribald variations of the most important story in Theravada Buddhism.

  • - A Holocaust Odyssey
    av Bonnie M. Harris
    377 - 1 111

    Between 1938 and 1941, the Philippine Commonwealth provided safe asylum to more than 1,300 German Jews. In highlighting the efforts by Philippine president Manual Quezon and High Commissioner Paul V. McNutt, Bonnie Harris offers fuller implications for our understanding of the Roosevelt administration's response to the Holocaust.

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