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        • 01. Contestations of memory in Southeast Asia
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        • 1: Historical dictionary of the Indochina War (1945–1954)
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        • Museums, colonialism and identity: a history of Naga collections in Britain
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        • Heritage Tourism in Southeast Asia
        • Between frontiers: nation and identity in a Southeast Asian borderland
        • Islamic connections: Muslim societies in South and Southeast Asia
        • Singapore: the unexpected nation
        • Islam, education and reform...
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        • Working with nature against poverty – development, resources and the environment in eastern Indonesia
        • The Iban diaries of Monica Freeman 1949-1951 including ethnographic drawings, sketches, paintings, photographs and letters
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        • Families in Asia. 2nd edn.
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Aseasuk News 49 (2011) book reviews


 

 

 

Reviews from Aseasuk News no.49 (Spring 2011)

  • Heritage Tourism in Southeast Asia
  • Between frontiers: nation and identity in a Southeast Asian borderland
  • Islamic connections: Muslim societies in South and Southeast Asia
  • Singapore: the unexpected nation
  • Islam, education and reform in southern Thailand: tradition and transformation
  • Digital atlas of Indonesian history
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