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HIST 354: Southeast Asia: An area study: Other Readings

This guide shows library resources that may be helpful for class research

Suggested Readings

Andrew Marshall The Trouser People: A story of Burma in the shadow of the empire. (2002)

Aung San Suu Kyi Freedom from fear and other writings (1995)

David Chandler Brother Number One: A political biography of PolPot (1999)

Nic Dunlop The Lost Executioner: A journey to the heart of the killing fields (2005)

Chanrithy Him  When broke glass floats: Growing up under the Khmer Rogue (2000)

Philip Short Pol Pot: anatomy of a nightmare (2004)

Edward Douwes Dekker (aka Multatuli) Max Havelaar or the coffee auctions of the Dutch Trading Company (1987)

Agnes Newton Keith Land below the wind (1939)

Phil Karber The Indochina Chronicles: travels in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam (2007)

G. A. Henty Among the Malay Pirates (1916)

Jose Rizal Noli Me Tangere (1961)

Geoges Condominas We have eaten the forest: the story of a Montagnard village in the central highland of Vietnam (1994)

David Halberstam HO (2007)

Michael Sallan and Mitch Weiss, Tiger Force: a true story of men and war (2006)

Anne Morrison Welsh Held in the light: Norman Morrison's sacrifice for peace and his family's journey of healing (2008)

Anthony Reid Southeast Asia in the age of commerce, 1450-1680, Vols 1&2 (1988 & 1993)

Books available in the library

Please click on the country or region that you are interested in.  You will be taken to a page that lists the titles that we have about that subject.

Burma

Cambodia

Indonesia

Indochina

Malaysia

Philippines

Vietnam

Southeast Asia