In this sparkling new work, Benedict Anderson provides a radical recasting of themes from Imagined Communities, his classic book on nationalism, through an exploration of fin-de-siecle politics and culture that spans the Caribbean, Imperial ...

John Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel of fate and memory.

In this substantial and referenced study, nine leading scholars present from inside the history, society, geography, economy and governmental institutions of each of the 10 ASEAN countries (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, ...

This is the wonderful, tumultuous, heartfelt story of Oliver Barrett IV and Jenny Cavilleri, the story of a rich Harvard jock and a wisecracking Radcliffe music major who have nothing in common but love, and everything else to share but ...

This is a thought-provoking book, which offers a truly comparative study on dictatorship, resistance and democracy in South East Asia.

After defeating the Philippine Republic's conventional forces in 1899, the U.S. Army was broken up into small garrisons to prepare Luzon for colonial rule.

First published in 1946, this autobiography of the well-known Filipino poet describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an itinerant laborer following the harvest trail in the ...

The author of The Soong Dynasty gives the incredible inside story behind the corruption of Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos, and the involvement of American business, organized crime, the CIA, the Pentagon and the White House.