Book Reviews—South Asia
Reversing the Gaze: Amar Singh's Diary, A Colonial Subject's Narrative of Imperial India. Edited by Susanne Hoeber Rudolph and Lloyd I. Rudolph with Mohan Singh Kanota. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2002. xii, 633 pp. $40.00 (cloth).
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Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation: Community, Religion, and Cultural Nationalism. By Tanika Sarkar. London: Hurst, 2001. viii, 290 pp. £25.00 (cloth).
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 683-685
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Freedom Unfinished: Fundamentalism and Popular Resistance in Bangladesh Today. By Jeremy Seabrook. London and New York: Zed Books; Dhaka: Proshika, 2001. xi, 243 pp. $25.00/£14.95.
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 685-686
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Landscapes and Lives: Environmental Dispatches on Rural India. By Mukul Sharma. New Delhi and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xi, 234 pp. $29.95 (cloth). - Green Revolutions Reconsidered: The Rural World of Contemporary Punjab. By Himmat Singh. New Delhi and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. ix, 302 pp. $35.00 (cloth).
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 686-689
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Harbingers of Rain: Land and Life in South India. By A. R. Vasavi. Study of Bijapur District in Karnataka. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999. xiv, 178 pp. $ 19.95 (cloth).
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 689-691
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Book Reviews—Southeast Asia
Living with Environmental Change: Social Vulnerability, Adaptation, and Resilience in Vietnam. Edited by W. Neil Adger, P. Mick Kelly, and Nguyen Huu Ninh. New York and London: Routledge, 2001. xxi, 314 pp. $100.00 (cloth).
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 691-693
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The Columbia Guide to the Vietnam War. By David L. Anderson. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. xiv, 308 pp. $45.00 (cloth). - Historical Dictionary of the Vietnam War. By Edwin E. Moïse. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2001. 1, 493 pp. $75.00 (cloth).
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 693-695
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Democracy, Development, and Decentralization in Provincial Thailand. By Daniel Arghiros. Democracy in Asia, no. 8. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2001. ix, 308 pp. $80.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 695-696
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The Indonesian Economy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A History of Missed Opportunities. By Anne Booth. London: Palgrave Macmillan Press, 1998. xvi, 377 pp. £24.95 (paper). - The Emergence of a National Economy: An Economic History of Indonesia, 1800–2000. By Howard Dick, Vincent Houben, Thomas Lindblad, and Thee Kian Wee. Crows Nest, NSW: Asian Studies Association of Australia in association with Allen and Unwin; Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2002. xvii, 286 pp. $38.00 (cloth).
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 697-699
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The Potent Dead: Ancestors, Saints, and Heroes in Contemporary Indonesia. Edited by Henri Chambert-Loir and Anthony Reid. Crows Nest, NSW: Asian Studies Association of Australia in association with Allen and Unwin; Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2002. xxvi, 243 pp. $34.00 (cloth).
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 699-701
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The Indochinese Experience of the French and the Americans: Nationalism and Communism in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. By Arthur J. Dommen. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. xiii, 1172 pp. $49.95 (cloth).
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Suharto: A Political Biography. By R. E. Elson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xix, 389 pp. $35.00 (cloth).
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Gateway to the West: The Dutch Language in Colonial Indonesia, 1600–1950: A History of Language Policy. By Kees Groeneboer. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1998. xiv, 440 pp. $44.50 (cloth).
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The Malay Peninsula: Crossroads of the Maritime Silk Road (100 BC–1300 AD). By Michel Jacq-Hergoualc'h. Translated by Victoria Hobson. Handbook of Oriental Studies, sec. 3, vol. 13. Leiden: Brill, 2002. xxxv, 607 pp. €171.00/$199.00 (cloth).
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Sex and Borders: Gender, National Identity, and Prostitution Policy in Thailand. By Leslie Ann Jeffrey. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2002. xxviii, 195 pp. $80.00 (cloth); $20.00 (paper).
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 708-710
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The Origins of the Vietnam War. By Fredrik Logevall. Seminar Studies in History. New York and Harlow, Essex: Longman, 2001. xviii, 156 pp. $15.00 (paper).
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Aung San and the Struggle for Burmese Independence. By Angelene Naw. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2001. xvi, 284 pp. $17.50 (paper).
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 711-713
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Entrepreneurship in Vietnam: Transformation and Dynamics. Edited by Per Ronnås and Bhargavi Ramamurthy. Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies; Singapore: Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, 2001. xiv, 354 pp. $45.00 (cloth).
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The House on Dream Street: Memoir of an American Woman in Vietnam. By Dana Sachs. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books, 2000. 348 pp. $22.95 (cloth).
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 715-717
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Local Cultures and the “New Asia”: The State, Culture, and Capitalism in Southeast Asia. Edited by C. J. W.-L. Wee. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2002. x, 245 pp. $49.90 (cloth); $25.90 (paper).
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