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Historical dictionary of the Indochina war (1945-1954) : an international and interdisciplinary approach
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ISBN: 8776946126 9788776946128 9788776940638 8776940632 Year: 2011 Publisher: Copenhagen : NIAS Press,

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Imperial heights : Dalat and the making and undoing of French Indochina
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ISBN: 0520948440 1283277646 9786613277640 9780520948440 9780520266599 0520266595 Year: 2011 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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Intended as a reminder of Europe for soldiers and clerks of the empire, the city of Dalat, located in the hills of Southern Vietnam, was built by the French in an alpine locale that reminded them of home. This book uncovers the strange 100-year history of a colonial city that was conceived as a center of power and has now become a kitsch tourist destination famed for its colonial villas, flower beds, pristine lakes, and pastoral landscapes. Eric T. Jennings finds that from its very beginning, Dalat embodied the paradoxes of colonialism-it was a city of leisure built on the backs of thousands of coolies, a supposed paragon of hygiene that offered only questionable protection from disease, and a new venture into ethnic relations that ultimately backfired. Jennings' fascinating history opens a new window onto virtually all aspects of French Indochina, from architecture and urban planning to violence, labor, métissage, health and medicine, gender and ethic relations, schooling, religion, comportments, anxieties, and more.


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Cambodian economy : charting the course of a brighter future : a survey of progress, problems and prospects
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ISBN: 9814380202 981431160X Year: 2011 Publisher: Singapore : ISEAS Publishing,

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"Hang Chuon Naron's Cambodian Economy: Charting the Course of a Brighter Future is a tour de force of modern Cambodia's development challenges. The book is without peer in terms of providing a comprehensive and thorough review of Cambodia's economy, from key economic sectors to social development to governance. On a country that still seems 'exotic' and sometimes difficult to penetrate, Dr Naron's survey provides valuable empirical analysis, insightful explanations, and practical recommendations for the way forward. The book ought to be required reading for every student, academic, or practitioner working on Cambodia." - Robert Taliercio, Lead Economist, World Bank "The international community has observed with relief and admiration as Cambodia has made a remarkable recovery from one of the modern world's most awful tragedies. Much has been written about the country, but very little has been from an authentic Cambodian perspective. In this encyclopaedic and original study, Dr Hang Chuon Naron, one of the country's key economic policy architects, fills the gap. The author combines analytical rigour and careful attention to empirics with an accessible expositional style. A must-read for anybody interested in Cambodia, Southeast Asia, and post-conflict development challenges more generally." - Hal Hill, H.W. Arndt Professor of Southeast Asian Economies, The Australian National University "This mammoth volume on the Cambodian economy fills a major gap in the literature on Cambodia's economic transition - one from a war-torn post-conflict state to a modernizing market economy. It traverses a very vast terrain, ranging from macroeconomics and finance - both private and public, to challenges facing agriculture, infrastructure and energy, to institution building and regional integration. As one of Cambodia's leading intellectuals, and policy-makers, Dr Hang Chuon Naron is uniquely placed to sketch this dramatic transformation, and tell the Cambodian story in a way that is insightful and revealing, yet accessible to a broad audience. This is a book that should appeal to more than just those interested in Cambodia's economy, or economists interested in issues of transition to market, but to anyone interested in Cambodia in general, or in post-conflict societies and the challenges that they face." - Jayant Menon, Principal Economist, Asian Development Bank, and former Board Director, Cambodian Development Research Institute and sometimes difficult to penetrate, Dr Naron's survey provides valuable empirical analysis, insightful explanations, and practical recommendations for the way forward. The book ought to be required reading for every student, academic, or practitioner working on Cambodia." - Robert Taliercio, Lead Economist, World Bank "The international community has observed with relief and admiration as Cambodia has made a remarkable recovery from one of the modern world's most awful tragedies. Much has been written about the country, but very little has been from an authentic Cambodian perspective. In this encyclopaedic and original study, Dr Hang Chuon Naron, one of the country's key economic policy architects, fills the gap. The author combines analytical rigour and careful attention to empirics with an accessible expositional style. A must-read for anybody interested in Cambodia, Southeast Asia, and post-conflict development challenges more generally." - Hal Hill, H.W. Arndt Professor of Southeast Asian Economies, The Australian National University "This mammoth volume on the Cambodian economy fills a major gap in the literature on Cambodia's economic transition - one from a war-torn post-conflict state to a modernizing market economy. It traverses a very vast terrain, ranging from macroeconomics and finance - both private and public, to challenges facing agriculture, infrastructure and energy, to institution building and regional integration. As one of Cambodia's leading intellectuals, and policy-makers, Dr Hang Chuon Naron is uniquely placed to sketch this dramatic transformation, and tell the Cambodian story in a way that is insightful and revealing, yet accessible to a broad audience. This is a book that should appeal to more than just those interested in Cambodia's economy, or economists interested in issues of transition to market, but to anyone interested in Cambodia in general, or in post-conflict societies and the challenges that they face." - Jayant Menon, Principal Economist, Asian Development Bank, and former Board Director, Cambodian Development Research Institute and sometimes difficult to penetrate, Dr Naron's survey provides valuable empirical analysis, insightful explanations, and practical recommendations for the way forward. The book ought to be required reading for every student, academic, or practitioner working on Cambodia." - Robert Taliercio, Lead Economist, World Bank "The international community has observed with relief and admiration as Cambodia has made a remarkable recovery from one of the modern world's most awful tragedies. Much has been written about the country, but very little has been from an authentic Cambodian perspective. In this encyclopaedic and original study, Dr Hang Chuon Naron, one of the country's key economic policy architects, fills the gap. The author combines analytical rigour and careful attention to empirics with an accessible expositional style. A must-read for anybody interested in Cambodia, Southeast Asia, and post-conflict development challenges more generally." - Hal Hill, H.W. Arndt Professor of Southeast Asian Economies, The Australian National University "This mammoth volume on the Cambodian economy fills a major gap in the literature on Cambodia's economic transition - one from a war-torn post-conflict state to a modernizing market economy. It traverses a very vast terrain, ranging from macroeconomics and finance - both private and public, to challenges facing agriculture, infrastructure and energy, to institution building and regional integration. As one of Cambodia's leading intellectuals, and policy-makers, Dr Hang Chuon Naron is uniquely placed to sketch this dramatic transformation, and tell the Cambodian story in a way that is insightful and revealing, yet accessible to a broad audience. This is a book that should appeal to more than just those interested in Cambodia's economy, or economists interested in issues of transition to market, but to anyone interested in Cambodia in general, or in post-conflict societies and the challenges that they face." - Jayant Menon, Principal Economist, Asian Development Bank, and former Board Director, Cambodian Development Research Institute


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Worse than a monolith
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ISBN: 0691142602 1283033534 9786613033536 1400838819 9780691142609 9780691142616 0691142610 9781400838813 9781283033534 6613033537 Year: 2011 Publisher: Princeton Princeton University Press

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In brute-force struggles for survival, such as the two World Wars, disorganization and divisions within an enemy alliance are to one's own advantage. However, most international security politics involve coercive diplomacy and negotiations short of all-out war. Worse Than a Monolith demonstrates that when states are engaged in coercive diplomacy--combining threats and assurances to influence the behavior of real or potential adversaries--divisions, rivalries, and lack of coordination within the opposing camp often make it more difficult to prevent the onset of conflict, to prevent existing conflicts from escalating, and to negotiate the end to those conflicts promptly. Focusing on relations between the Communist and anti-Communist alliances in Asia during the Cold War, Thomas Christensen explores how internal divisions and lack of cohesion in the two alliances complicated and undercut coercive diplomacy by sending confusing signals about strength, resolve, and intent. In the case of the Communist camp, internal mistrust and rivalries catalyzed the movement's aggressiveness in ways that we would not have expected from a more cohesive movement under Moscow's clear control. Reviewing newly available archival material, Christensen examines the instability in relations across the Asian Cold War divide, and sheds new light on the Korean and Vietnam wars. While recognizing clear differences between the Cold War and post-Cold War environments, he investigates how efforts to adjust burden-sharing roles among the United States and its Asian security partners have complicated U.S.-China security relations since the collapse of the Soviet Union.


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Cambodia's economic transformation
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ISBN: 8776946118 9788776946111 8776940837 9788776940836 8776940829 9788776940829 Year: 2011 Publisher: Copenhagen : NIAS Press,

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The Cambodia Forum
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ISBN: 9789814311397 9814311391 9814311383 Year: 2011 Publisher: Singapore

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Cambodia was once in the news for all the wrong reasons: relentless bombing during the Vietnam War, genocide during the Khmer Rouge era, and the ghastly human dislocation, misery and poverty that are the legacies of war and conflict. In recent years, however, Cambodia has emerged as one of ASEAN's stories of hope, a country determined to put its past behind and take its place among the emerging successes of Southeast Asia. To capture the new mood, the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) in Singapore and the Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace (CICP) organized a one-day Cambodia Forum on 23 April 2010 at the Conrad Centennial Singapore to examine the key sectors in Cambodia's developmental thrust. Cambodian leaders, policy-makers and academics looked at the role of governance in creating the thrust; the economic strategy needed to sustain that thrust; the role of investment and business policy; the human resources policy necessary for sustained economic growth; and the role of energy and the environment. Addressing a host of issues under these broad areas, the Forum participants provided an insider's view of how Cambodia could leverage on its strengths to move into a new era. The Keynote Address also analyses the state of bilateral relations between Cambodia and Singapore.


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Man Bac : the excavation of a neolithic site in Northern Vietnam : the biology
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ISBN: 1921862238 192186222X 9781921862236 9781921862229 Year: 2011 Publisher: Canberra : ANU Press,

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The site of Man Bac in the Red River Delta of Vietnam, one of the most meticulously excavated and carefully analysed of Southeast Asian archaeological sites in the past few years, is emerging as a key site in the region. This book carefully analyses the human and animal remains and puts them into context. The authors describe in detail the health status, the unusual demographic profile and the interestingly divergent affinities of the cemetery population, and discuss their meaning, particularly in association with evidence for the use of marine and terrestrial animal resources; they argue convincingly that the site documents a time when the face of the region’s population was undergoing a fundamental shift, associated with a changing economic subsistence base. Physical anthropologists and archaeologists have argued for years over the timeline, the manner and the very nature of Southeast Asian population history, and this book is essential reading in this debate. Two supporting appendices describe the individual remains in detail.

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History & Archaeology --- Archaeology --- Antiquities. --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Human remains (Archaeology) --- Neolithic period. --- Vietnam. --- Red River Delta (Vietnam) --- Màn Bạc Site (Vietnam) --- New Stone age --- Stone age --- Skeletal remains (Archaeology) --- Human skeleton --- Primate remains (Archaeology) --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeological specimens --- Artefacts (Antiquities) --- Artifacts (Antiquities) --- Specimens, Archaeological --- Material culture --- Vietnam --- Antiquities --- Yüeh-nan --- Vʹet-Nam --- Viet-Nam --- Vijetnam --- National Republic of Vietnam --- Vʹetnam --- Wietnam --- Biet Nam --- Biyetnan --- Socialist Republic of Vietnam --- Cộng hòa xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam --- Nước Cộng hòa xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam --- Chính phủ nước Cộng hòa xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam --- SRV --- S.R.V. --- Sot︠s︡ialisticheskai︠a︡ Respublika Vʹetnam --- Betʻŭnam --- Petʻŭnam --- Socialist Republic of Viet Nam --- I︠U︡zhnyĭ Vʹetnam --- Vjetnamio --- SRVN --- République socialiste du Vietnam --- RSV --- RSVN --- Sosialistiese Republiek Viëtnam --- فيتنام --- Fiyitnām --- Fītnām --- Fīyatnām --- Vītnām --- Vīyitnām --- Republica Socialista de Vietnam --- Rèpublica socialista du Viêt Nam --- Vyetnam --- Vyetnam Sosialist Respublikası --- В'етнам --- Сацыялістычная Рэспубліка В'етнам --- Satsyi︠a︡listychnai︠a︡ Rėspublika V'etnam --- Bietnam --- Виетнам --- Социалистическа република Виетнам --- Sot︠s︡ialisticheska republika Vietnam --- Vietnam (Democratic Republic) --- Vietnam (Republic) --- French Indochina --- Bioarchaeology


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Empire's Children : Race, Filiation, and Citizenship in the French Colonies
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ISBN: 1280126396 9786613530257 0226733092 9780226733098 9781280126390 9780226733074 0226733076 9780226733081 0226733084 6613530255 Year: 2011 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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Europe's imperial projects were often predicated on a series of legal and scientific distinctions that were frequently challenged by the reality of social and sexual interactions between the colonized and the colonizers.When Emmanuelle Saada discovered a 1928 decree defining the status of persons of mixed parentage born in French Indochina-the métis-she found not only a remarkable artifact of colonial rule, but a legal bombshell that introduced race into French law for the first time. The decree was the culmination of a decades-long effort to resolve the "métis question": the educational, social, and civil issues surrounding the mixed population. Operating at the intersection of history, anthropology, and law, Empire's Children reveals the unacknowledged but central role of race in the definition of French nationality. Through extensive archival work in both France and Vietnam, and a close reading of primary and secondary material from the Pacific islands and sub-Saharan and North Africa, Saada has created in Empire's Children an original and compelling perspective on colonialism, law, race, and culture from the end of the nineteenth century until decolonization.

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Racially mixed people --- Citizenship --- Miscegenation --- Bi-racial people --- Biracial people --- Interracial people --- Mixed race people --- Mixed-racial people --- Mulattoes --- Multiracial people --- Peoples of mixed descent --- Ethnic groups --- Hybridity of races --- Racial amalgamation --- Racial crossing --- Race relations --- Birthright citizenship --- Citizenship (International law) --- National citizenship --- Nationality (Citizenship) --- Political science --- Public law --- Allegiance --- Civics --- Domicile --- Political rights --- Colonies --- History. --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Law and legislation --- France --- Bro-C'hall --- Fa-kuo --- Fa-lan-hsi --- Faguo --- Falanxi --- Falanxi Gongheguo --- Faransā --- Farānsah --- França --- Francia (Republic) --- Francija --- Francja --- Francland --- Francuska --- Franis --- Franḳraykh --- Frankreich --- Frankrig --- Frankrijk --- Frankrike --- Frankryk --- Fransa --- Fransa Respublikası --- Franse --- Franse Republiek --- Frant︠s︡ --- Frant︠s︡ Uls --- Frant︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Frantsuzskai︠a︡ Rėspublika --- Frantsyi︠a︡ --- Franza --- French Republic --- Frencisc Cynewīse --- Frenska republika --- Furansu --- Furansu Kyōwakoku --- Gallia --- Gallia (Republic) --- Gallikē Dēmokratia --- Hyãsia --- Parancis --- Peurancih --- Phransiya --- Pransiya --- Pransya --- Prantsusmaa --- Pʻŭrangsŭ --- Ranska --- República Francesa --- Republica Franzesa --- Republika Francuska --- Republiḳah ha-Tsarfatit --- Republikang Pranses --- République française --- Tsarfat --- Tsorfat --- Γαλλική Δημοκρατία --- Γαλλία --- Франц --- Франц Улс --- Французская Рэспубліка --- Францыя --- Франция --- Френска република --- פראנקרייך --- צרפת --- רפובליקה הצרפתית --- فرانسه --- فرنسا --- フランス --- フランス共和国 --- 法国 --- 法蘭西 --- 法蘭西共和國 --- 프랑스 --- France (Provisional government, 1944-1946) --- Ethnic relations --- race, citizenship, colonies, france, french indochina, metis, interracial, mixed-race, parentage, vietnam, classification, empire, imperialism, colonialism, sexuality, law, history, anthropology, nationality, africa, pacific islands, paternity, identity, illegitimacy, abandonment, children, native, subjects, state power, colonial rule, nonfiction, filiation, family, orphanages, categorization, repatriation, decolonization.


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Cambodia : 2010 Article IV Consultation-Staff Report; Staff Statement and Supplement; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Cambodia.
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ISBN: 1455240974 145523169X 1283562286 9786613874733 1455244813 Year: 2011 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund,

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Prior to the global crisis, Cambodia enjoyed a decade of high growth and relative stability. However, as a result of the global crisis, output collapsed, and longstanding structural vulnerabilities have been exposed. Discussions focused on the dual policy challenge to safeguard macroeconomic stability and policy credibility, and to lay the foundations for broader-based and inclusive growth. It is recommended that the next Article IV Consultation take place on the standard 12-month cycle. IMF staff underscored the need for better and faster data for key economic statistics.

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Economic indicators --- Business indicators --- Indicators, Business --- Indicators, Economic --- Leading indicators --- Economic history --- Quality of life --- Economic forecasting --- Index numbers (Economics) --- Social indicators --- Cambodia --- Cambodge --- Khmer Republic --- Cam Bot --- Cambotja --- République khmère --- Kambodscha --- Kamboja --- Kambodža --- Tchin-la --- Chien-pʻu-chai --- Democratic Kampuchea --- Kambujā --- Democratic Cambodia --- Camboja --- Preah Reach Ana Chak Kampuchea --- Kâmpŭchéa Prâchéathĭpâteyy --- Kampuchea démocratique --- République du Cambodge --- Campuchia --- Kampuchea (Coalition Government, 1983- ) --- Kampuchea --- Kampuchii︠a︡ --- Kamphūchā --- Kingdom of Cambodia --- Preăhréachéanachâkr Kâmpŭchéa --- Cambogia --- Roat Kampuchea --- State of Cambodia --- Cambodja --- Royal Government of Cambodia --- French Indochina --- Economic policy. --- Economic conditions. --- Braḥrājāṇacakr Kambujā --- Rājraṭṭhabhipāl Kambujā --- Banks and Banking --- Exports and Imports --- Investments: General --- Macroeconomics --- Public Finance --- Industries: Financial Services --- Banks --- Depository Institutions --- Micro Finance Institutions --- Mortgages --- International Lending and Debt Problems --- Debt --- Debt Management --- Sovereign Debt --- Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General --- Fiscal Policy --- Public finance & taxation --- International economics --- Banking --- Finance --- External debt --- Public debt --- Bank deposits --- Revenue administration --- Financial services --- Fiscal stance --- Fiscal policy --- Debts, External --- Banks and banking --- Debts, Public --- Finance, Public --- Revenue

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