The story begins in the 1930s, before Indonesia's independence from Dutch rule, and follows the fortunes of a poor Javanese village woman who becomes a servant in the household of President Sukarno. I
This book is the fruit of forty years' study of Sumatran history, from the sixteenth century to the present. While seeking patterns of coherence in the vast island frontier, it focuses on Aceh, which
This collection of personal narratives comes from anthropologists. Whether or not they are themselves from southeast Asia or ever experienced the privations of war, social upheaval, and invasion, they
Many women in Asia engage in full-time work and continue to shoulder home and familial responsibilities in accordance to social and cultural norms. As larger structural, economic, historical and socia
International Real Estate: Asia's Potential from a Research Perspective considers real estate market analysis in the context of economic theory pertaining to market disequilibria, utilizing data from
This pioneering work from a member of Malaysia's new generation of historians is a tale of two different cities, the one with a trading heritage dating back centuries, the other a new creation spawned
Kano (Institute of Oriental Culture, U. of Tokyo, Japan) presents an economic history of Indonesia from the mid-19th century to the end of the 20th, focused on balance of international payments and tr