Cambodia Year Zero documents the dramatic and devastating transformation of Cambodia following the rise of the Khmer Rouge in 1975. The book provides a detailed account of the regime’s radical policies, including forced evacuations, abolition of urban life, collectivization of agriculture, and the systematic dismantling of social, cultural, and political structures. Through eyewitness testimo…
Enchanted Frontiers: Sikkim, Bhutan and India’s North-Eastern Borderlands by Nari Rustomji presents the author’s personal experiences and observations of the Eastern Himalayan region, focusing on Sikkim, Bhutan, and India’s northeastern borderlands. Through a blend of historical and ethnographic narrative, Rustomji explores the lives of local communities, their cultures, traditions, and t…
They Came to Japan is a translated anthology compiling over thirty European reports, letters, and missionary accounts written between 1543 and 1640. Edited by Michael Cooper, the volume offers a vivid portrait of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Japan through the eyes of Europeans — merchants, Jesuit missionaries, and other travelers. The contributors include those who lived in Japan for ex…
Buku ini mengisahkaan fakta-fakta yang membuat sejarah: sejak abdul azis ibnu saud bangkit menjadi pahlawan padang pasir; raja faisal yang berani menghentikan ekspor minyak sehingga negeri-negeri barat kalang-kabut; usaha modernisasi pendidikan; sampai adnan kashogi sebagai simbol saudagar multi milyader arab dengan 50 perusahaan besarnya yang tersebar di seluruh dunia.
The recent border clashes between China and India have dramatized the strategic location of the Himalayan kingdoms of Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhutan: their position on the fringe of the Communist empire, between India and Chinese-occupied Tibet make them important geostrategically to both the East and West. This is the irst book to evaluate the complex politico-geographical aspects of these three Hi…
Examines the role of drug trafficking in the support of terrorist groups and the international criminal underworld connected to the Taliban in Pakistan and Afghanistan, arguing that the most important focus for Western policymakers is to stop the flow of money to terrorist networks.
More than 3,000 prisoners in the war on terrorism have been captured, held, and interrogated in Afghanistan alone. But no one knows what transpired in those interactions between prisoner and interrogator -- until now. In The Interrogators, Chris Mackey, the senior interrogator at Bagram Air Base and in Kandahar, where al-Qaeda and Taliban prisoners were first detained and questioned, lifts the…
This book is a study of regime change in an underdeveloped country with a weak state and strong autonomous social organizations. Regime change is in many countries a traumatic and disruptive experience, but few countries have paid as high a cost to retain traditionally accepted relationships of authority as has Afghanistan since the communist coup
Presents a carefully researched analysis of the Democratic Kampuchea regime of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge (1975-79) and the early years of the People's Republic of Kampuchea (1979-89). This book presents a fresh interpretation based on the earliest primary sources - interviews with the Khmer people themselves.
This reissue (1987) focuses on the land, the people and the history of Oman. It explores the influences on events of trade, foreign involvement in Omani affairs, and Ibadism (the principal sect of Islam in Oman). It also emphasizes the role of the Sultan in contemporary Oman.