The Tragedy of Vietnam
ISBN: 9781138632653 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Tragedy of Vietnam is a brief and accessible text providing a comprehensive overview of the causes and consequences of the Vietnam War. Patrick J. Hearden offers historical background of the conflict and examines its long-term consequences on a regional and global scale. This fifth edition includes expanded discussions of post-war American-Vietnamese relationships and outlines the ways in which the Vietnam War experience has shaped foreign policy debates in the United States up until the present day. The Tragedy of Vietnam is a brief and accessible text providing a comprehensive overview of the causes and consequences of the Vietnam War. Patrick... |
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320,30 zł |
Hearing Allah's Call: Preaching and Performance in Indonesian Islam
ISBN: 9781501713125 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hearing Allah's Call changes the way we think about Islamic communication. In the city of Bandung in Indonesia, sermons are not reserved for mosques and sites for Friday prayers. Muslim speakers are in demand for all kinds of events, from rites of passage to motivational speeches for companies and other organizations. Julian Millie spent...
Hearing Allah's Call changes the way we think about Islamic communication. In the city of Bandung in Indonesia, sermons are not reserved for mosques a...
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139,46 zł |
Withdrawal: Reassessing America's Final Years in Vietnam
ISBN: 9780190691080 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A "better war." Over the last two decades, this term has become synonymous with US strategy during the Vietnam War's final years. The narrative is enticingly simple, appealing to many audiences. After the disastrous results of the 1968 Tet offensive, in which Hanoi's forces demonstrated the failures of American strategy, popular history tells of a new American military commander who emerged in South Vietnam and with inspired leadership and a new approach turned around a long stalemated conflict. In fact, so successful was General Creighton Abrams in commanding US forces that, according to the...
A "better war." Over the last two decades, this term has become synonymous with US strategy during the Vietnam War's final years. The narrative is ent...
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Poppa-San
ISBN: 9781498241595 / Angielski / Twarda / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is based on the experiences of military personnel during the Vietnam War from 1966 to 1970. I rest easy now after writing this book in honor of those who served. Let the truth be told. Thomas Terry is a telecommunications consultant who took to writing after travel around the world in the US military and as an expatriate. He has been through three war periods in several countries, including Vietnam. He now lives in Phoenix, Arizona.
This book is based on the experiences of military personnel during the Vietnam War from 1966 to 1970. I rest easy now after writing this book in honor...
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Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
ISBN: 9780674979840 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Sympathizer comes a searching exploration of the conflict Americans call the Vietnam War and Vietnamese call the American War--a conflict that lives on in the collective memory of both nations. " A] gorgeous, multifaceted examination of the war Americans call the... Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award |
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95,63 zł |
Poppa-San
ISBN: 9781532617133 / Angielski / Miękka / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is based on the experiences of military personnel during the Vietnam War from 1966 to 1970. I rest easy now after writing this book in honor of those who served. Let the truth be told.
Thomas Terry is a telecommunications consultant who took to writing after travel around the world in the US military and as an expatriate. He has been through three war periods in several countries, including Vietnam. He now lives in Phoenix, Arizona. This book is based on the experiences of military personnel during the Vietnam War from 1966 to 1970. I rest easy now after writing this book in honor...
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Separatist Conflict in Indonesia: The Long-Distance Politics of the Acehnese Diaspora
ISBN: 9781138102941 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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227,29 zł |
Becoming Refugee American: The Politics of Rescue in Little Saigon
ISBN: 9780252041358 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Vietnamese refugees fleeing the fall of South Vietnam faced a paradox. The same guilt-ridden America that only reluctantly accepted them expected, and rewarded, expressions of gratitude for their rescue. Meanwhile, their status as refugees "as opposed to willing immigrants "profoundly influenced their cultural identity. Phuong Tran Nguyen examines the phenomenon of refugee nationalism among Vietnamese Americans in Southern California. Here, the residents of Little Saigon keep alive nostalgia for the old regime and, by extension, their claim to a lost statehood. Their refugee nationalism is...
Vietnamese refugees fleeing the fall of South Vietnam faced a paradox. The same guilt-ridden America that only reluctantly accepted them expected, and...
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470,20 zł |
Becoming Refugee American: The Politics of Rescue in Little Saigon
ISBN: 9780252082887 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Vietnamese refugees fleeing the fall of South Vietnam faced a paradox. The same guilt-ridden America that only reluctantly accepted them expected, and rewarded, expressions of gratitude for their rescue. Meanwhile, their status as refugees "as opposed to willing immigrants "profoundly influenced their cultural identity. Phuong Tran Nguyen examines the phenomenon of refugee nationalism among Vietnamese Americans in Southern California. Here, the residents of Little Saigon keep alive nostalgia for the old regime and, by extension, their claim to a lost statehood. Their refugee nationalism is...
Vietnamese refugees fleeing the fall of South Vietnam faced a paradox. The same guilt-ridden America that only reluctantly accepted them expected, and...
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Nuns Navigating the Spanish Empire
ISBN: 9780826358943 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tells the remarkable story of a group of nuns who travelled halfway around the globe in the seventeenth century to establish the first female Franciscan convent in the Far East. Drawing from a manuscript from one of the nuns, other archival sources, and rare books, this study offers a fascinating view of travel, evangelization, and empire.
Tells the remarkable story of a group of nuns who travelled halfway around the globe in the seventeenth century to establish the first female Francisc...
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188,57 zł |
Understanding the City Through Its Margins: Pluridisciplinary Perspectives from Case Studies in Africa, Asia and the Middle East
ISBN: 9781138045897 / Angielski / Twarda / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Myths of Tet: The Most Misunderstood Event of the Vietnam War
ISBN: 9780700625024 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Late in 1967, American officials and military officers pushed an optimistic view of the Vietnam War. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV) said that the war was being won, and that Communist strength in South Vietnam was declining. Then came the Tet Offensive of 1968. In its broadest and simplest outline, the conventional wisdom about the offensive--that it was a military defeat for the Communists but a political victory for them, because it undermined support for the war in the United States--is correct. But much that has been written about the Tet Offensive has been misleading. Edwin...
Late in 1967, American officials and military officers pushed an optimistic view of the Vietnam War. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV) said ...
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228,17 zł |
Gods, Heroes, and Ancestors: An Interreligious Encounter in Eighteenth-Century Vietnam
ISBN: 9780190677602 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Though a minority religion in Vietnam, Christianity has been a significant presence in the country since its arrival in the sixteenth-century. Anh Q. Tran offers the first English translation of the recently discovered 1752 manuscript scholar, this anonymously authored manuscript paints a rich picture of the three traditional Vietnamese religions: Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism. The work explains and evaluates several religious beliefs, customs, and rituals of eighteenth-century Vietnam, many of which are still in practice today. In addition, it contains a trove of...
Though a minority religion in Vietnam, Christianity has been a significant presence in the country since its arrival in the sixteenth-century. Anh Q. ...
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East Timor's Independence, Indonesia and ASEAN
ISBN: 9783319626291 / Angielski / Twarda / 153 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explains how history and traditions have shaped Timorese politics, as well as the role that Indonesia and ASEAN play for the country's future . It tries to understand a complex political system in which both traditional laws and contemporary politics are integrated, and examines the effects of Portuguese colonization, Indonesian neo-colonialism, United Nations missions, and electoral democracy. The volume also addresses broader issues such as the politics of modernization, the question of development, and youth education. The possibilities presented by the new president, Luo-Olo,... This book explains how history and traditions have shaped Timorese politics, as well as the role that Indonesia and ASEAN play for the country's fu... |
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211,04 zł |
History as Literary Narratives: Philippine History in F. Sionil Jose's Viajero and Alfred Yuson's Great Philippine Jungle Energy Cafe
ISBN: 9783941267336 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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236,57 zł |
Deng Xiaoping's Long War: The Military Conflict Between China and Vietnam, 1979-1991
ISBN: 9781469642345 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The surprise Chinese invasion of Vietnam in 1979 shocked the international community. The two communist nations had seemed firm political and cultural allies, but the twenty-nine-day border war imposed heavy casualties, ruined urban and agricultural infrastructure, leveled three Vietnamese cities, and catalyzed a decadelong conflict. In this groundbreaking book, Xiaoming Zhang traces the roots of the conflict to the historic relationship between the peoples of China and Vietnam, the ongoing Sino-Soviet dispute, and Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping's desire to modernize his country. Deng's...
The surprise Chinese invasion of Vietnam in 1979 shocked the international community. The two communist nations had seemed firm political and cultural...
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The Chinese Annals of Batavia, the Kai Ba Lidai Shiji and Other Stories (1610-1795)
ISBN: 9789004355392 / Angielski / Twarda / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Chinese Annals of Batavia, the Kai Ba Lidai Shiji and Other Stories (1610-1795) Leonard Blussé and Nie Dening open up a veritable treasure trove of Chinese archival sources about the autonomous history of Chinese Batavia. The main part of this study is devoted to the annotated translation of a unique historical study of the Chinese community of Batavia (Jakarta) written by an anonymous Chinese author at the end of the 18th century, the Kai Ba Lidai Shiji. This historical document and a selection of other Chinese contemporary sources throw new light on a tragic event in the history of...
In The Chinese Annals of Batavia, the Kai Ba Lidai Shiji and Other Stories (1610-1795) Leonard Blussé and Nie Dening open up a veritable treasure tro...
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463,24 zł |
Letters from St Petersburg: A Siamese Prince at the Court of the Last Tsar
ISBN: 9786167339580 / Angielski / Twarda / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 200 or so letters written between King Chulalongkorn and his son Prince Chakrabongse from 1896 until the king's death in 1910 cover a turbulent period in Siamese and Russian history.
The 200 or so letters written between King Chulalongkorn and his son Prince Chakrabongse from 1896 until the king's death in 1910 cover a turbulent pe...
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135,98 zł |
Bonn, Jakarta und der Kalte Krieg
ISBN: 9783110562491 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Handlich, lesbar und stets am Puls der Forschung: Im Programm der Schriftenreihe spiegelt sich seit uber 50 Jahren das gesamte Spektrum der Zeitgeschichte. Zwei Bande im Jahr, schlank im Format, Qualitatssicherung durch Peer Reviews. Die Reihe kann kostengunstig im Abonnement bezogen werden ( 34,80 zzgl. Versandkosten). Im Auftrag des Instituts fur Zeitgeschichte Munchen-Berlin herausgegeben von Helmut Altrichter, Horst Moller, Margit Szollosi-Janze, Andreas Wirsching Redaktion: Johannes Hurter, Thomas Raithel Handlich, lesbar und stets am Puls der Forschung: Im Programm der Schriftenreihe spiegelt sich seit uber 50 Jahren das gesamte Spektrum der Zeitges... |
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107,02 zł |
Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
ISBN: 9780802127907 / Angielski / Miękka / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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86,94 zł |