A Short History of South-east Asia

Buy A Short History of South-east Asia

The concise history classic-updated with coverage on the 2004 tsunami, as well as recent political and economic developments
This authoritative book provides everything readers need to know about the current and early history of the eleven nations-from Singapore and Thailand to Indonesia and the Philippines-that make up South-East Asia. With revised chapters for all countries and a new chapter on East Timor, this latest edition includes colorful descriptions of key characters and events as well as informative maps and photos of historical landmarks.
This authoritative, concise, balanced, and accessible history neatly fills the gap between the tourist guides and the weighty academic tomes.-Stephen Grenville, former deputy governor, Reserve Bank of Australia
Peter Church (Sydney, Australia) is the Managing Director and one of the founders of Asean Focus Group. He is a lawyer by profession and has spent more than 25 years living and working in South-East Asia.


History Channel Presents: In Search of History: Viking Explorers (DVD)

The History Channel`s IN SEARCH OF HISTORY series turns its attention to VIKING EXPLORERS. The program presents historical information about the Vikings, including evidence about their journey across the Atlantic to America, some 500 years before Columbus.
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Communication in History

Communication in History`s outstanding selection of readings from classic and contemporary sources gives an extensive overview of the most important ideas in the field.

Encompassing topics as wide-ranging as the role of printing in the rise of the modern state and the role of the Internet in the Information Age, this anthology reveals how media have been influential both in maintaining social order and as powerful agents of change. Revised with new readings for the Fourth Edition, Communication in History continues to be, as one reviewer wrote, the only book in the sea of History of Mass Communication books that introduces the reader to a more expansive, intellectually enlivening study of the relationship between human history and communication history.

For anyone interested in
media history, history of communication, the relationship of the media and society.



Communication in History
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A History of Mass Communication

This exciting new text traces the common themes in the long and complex history of mass communication. It shows how the means of communicating grew out of their eras, how they developed, how they influenced the societies of those eras, and how they have continued to exert their influence upon subsequent generations. The book is divided into six periods which are identified as `Information Revolutions` writing, printing, mass media, entertainment, the `toolshed` (which we call `home` now), and the Information Highway. In looking at the ways in which the tools of communication have influenced and been influenced by social change, A History of Mass Communication provides students of media and journalism with a strong sense of the way their chosen field affects how society functions. Providing a broad-based approach to media history, Dr. Fang encourages the reader to take a careful look at where our culture is headed through the tools we use to communicate with one another.
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Art History's History

Written in jargon-free, reader-friendly language, this is one of the first volumes to make art
historical theory accessible to those at the introductory
level.
A review of
contemporary theory of art history provides readers with lucid prose and concrete examples. Discussion of eighteenth-
and nineteenth- century theories that are important to art history offers readers a review of historically important issues
in philosophy. Illustrations of well-known works of art show readers how theory has application to images.

Art historians and educators.
Art History's History
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Heroes Of History

Before his death, Will Durant was working on a project relating to his bestselling THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION. He reworked some of that material from that 11-volume series, and wrote other parts anew in lecture format. From a manuscript discovered years after his death, his world history is structured around biographies of great people--Confucius, Plato, Jesus, Leonardo, through Shakespeare and Bacon. Here, Durant transmits the history and philosophy of the ages in a manner which he made famous and perfected--popularizing without watering down.
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PeopleFs History of the Civil War

History comes alive through the many voices in David Williams`s compelling history of the Civil War period, as he deepens our understanding of a war usually told through military campaigns and generals. Drawing on diaries, letters, journals, newspaper accounts, and official records, Williams shows a range of individuals and groups vying for power and trying to make their voices heard: laborers, landowners, soldiers, slave holders, slaves, freemen and women, merchants, immigrants, preachers, Indians, etc. He highlights key questions from the time, such as whether the armies on both sides were made up of poor people sent to fight a rich man`s war, and he shows the participation of many groups--for example women, who organized into cooperatives and demonstrated for the cause. He also covers the lesser-known war in the West and its impact on African Americans and Indians. His study of the common people does not evade the fact that they often fought tenaciously, and sometimes viciously, against... PeopleFs History of the Civil War
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In Search Of History - Scourge Of The Black Death (DVD)

The history of the Black Death, which altered world history dramatically by killing around 100 million people, is examined in this program from the History Channel.
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