Описание: For decades, large dam projects have been undertaken by both nations and international agencies with the aim of doing good: preventing floods, bringing electricity to rural populations, producing revenues for poor countries, and more. But time after time, the social, economic, and environmental costs have outweighed the benefits of the dams, sometimes to a disastrous degree. In this volume, a diverse group of experts—involved for years with the Nam Theun 2 dam in Laos—issue an urgent call for critical reassessment of the approach to, and rationale for, these kinds of large infrastructure projects in developing countries.In the 2000s, as the World Bank was reeling from revelations of past hydropower failures, it nonetheless promoted the enormous Nam Theun 2 project. NT2, the Bank believed, offered a new, wiser model of dam development that would alleviate poverty, protect the environment, engage locally affected people in a transparent fashion, and stimulate political transformation. This was a tall order. For the first time, this book shows in detail why, despite assertions of success from the World Bank and other agencies involved in the project, the dam's true story has been one of substantial loss for affected villagers and the regional environment. Nam Theun 2 is an important case study that illustrates much broader problems of global development policy.
Описание: Using a unique "old–new" treatment, this book presents new perspectives on several important topics in Southeast Asian history and historiography. Based on original, primary research, it reinterprets and revises several long-held conventional views in the field, covering the period from the "classical" age to the twentieth century. Chapters share the approach to Southeast Asian history and historiography: namely, giving "agency" to Southeast Asia in all research, analysis, writing, and interpretation. The book honours John K. Whitmore, a senior historian in the field of Southeast Asian history today, by demonstrating the scope and breadth of the scholar’s influence on two generations of historians trained in the West. In addition to providing new information and insightson the field of Southeast Asia, this book stimulates new debate on conventional ideas, evidence, and approaches to its teaching, research, and understanding. It addresses, and in many cases, revises specific, critically important topics in Southeast Asian history on which much conventional knowledge of Southeast Asia has long been based. It is of interest to scholars of Southeast Asian Studies, as well as Asian History.
Автор: Tyrell Haberkorn Название: In Plain Sight: Impunity and Human Rights in Thailand ISBN: 0299314448 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780299314446 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 2753.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Following a 1932 coup d’état in Thailand that ended absolute monarchy and established a constitution, the Thai state that emerged has suppressed political dissent through detention, torture, forced reeducation, disappearances, assassinations, and massacres. In Plain Sight shows how these abuses, both hidden and occurring in public view, have become institutionalized through a chronic failure to hold perpetrators accountable. Tyrell Haberkorn’s deeply researched revisionist history of modern Thailand highlights the legal, political, and social mechanisms that have produced such impunity and documents continual and courageous challenges to state domination.
Through the voices of senior officials, teachers, soldiers, journalists, and artists, The Republic of Vietnam, 1955–1975, presents us with an interpretation of "South Vietnam" as a passionately imagined nation in the minds of ordinary Vietnamese, rather than merely as an expeditious political construct of the United States government.
The moving and honest memoirs collected, translated, and edited here by Tuong Vu and Sean Fear describe the experiences of war, politics, and everyday life for people from many walks of life during the fraught years of Vietnam's Second Republic, leading up to and encompassing what Americans generally call the "Vietnam War." The voices gift the reader a sense of the authors' experiences in the Republic and their ideas about the nation during that time. The light and careful editing hand of Vu and Fear reveals that far from a Cold War proxy struggle, the conflict in Vietnam featured a true ideological divide between the communist North and the non-communist South.
Автор: Ortloff, Charles R. (research Associate, Department Of Anthropology, University Of Chicago) Название: Water engineering in the ancient world ISBN: 0199239096 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199239092 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 26974.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A new perspective on archaeological studies of the urban and agricultural water supply and distribution systems of the major ancient civilizations of South America, the Middle East, and South-East Asia. Charles Ortloff uses modern computer analysis methods to extract the true hydraulic/hydrological knowledge base available to these peoples.
Автор: Salguero Bodes, Francisco Javier (Public Health England) Pallares Martinez, Francisco Jose (Murcia Univ.) Название: Geopolitics of Health in South and Southeast Asia ISBN: 103236453X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781032364537 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 21437.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book analyses the complexity of South and SE Asia in international health, taking into account the impact of the geopolitics of the Cold War on the development of public health and development in the regions. It will be a valuable contribution to the History of Medicine and Health and Political Economy of South and SE Asia.
Автор: Rawski Название: Early Modern China and Northeast Asia ISBN: 1107471524 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107471528 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 3800.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Boeing 727 pilot Scott McKay discovers a strange crate in the cargo hold little suspecting that it carries a thermo-nuclear bomb. Who is responsible? Can it be disposed of before it detonates? The clock has started ticking...From the author of `Pandora`s Clock` a gripping thriller, of the Tom Clancy genre. Previously announced in March `98 Guide. Publisher has raised the stakes on this one and will promote heavily.
Автор: Rawski Название: Early Modern China and Northeast Asia ISBN: 1107093082 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107093089 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 12355.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Early Modern China and Northeast Asia offers a revisionist history of China from a peripheral perspective. It surveys wars and regime changes that accompanied China`s integration into the world economy during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and places Sino-Korean and Sino-Japanese relations within the context of northeast Asian geopolitics.
Описание: This is a collection of contributions written on the occasion of the third anniversary of the South China Sea Arbitration Award (Case: Philippines versus People’s Republic of China) of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague. The contributions deal with legal, political and economic causes and consequences of this regional conflict. The authors establish connections to China’s One World, One Road projects and to the different conditions of interior and exterior politics in several individual countries.
Автор: Richards,Jack C. Название: Interchange 4Ed 2 WB B ISBN: 1107650755 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107650756 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 247.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Dieser Band stellt die facettenreiche traditionelle Musik Griechenlands in den Mittelpunkt. Dabei wird eine Vielzahl an unterschiedlichen Stilen prasentiert, die die Musik aus Kreta, der Peloponnes und dem griechischen Festland, aber auch die der Balkanstaaten und Kleinasiens umfasst. Ihre aufregenden Rhythmen und ungewohnlichen Tonarten ergeben eine Sammlung lebhafter und energiegeladener Stucke. Besetzung:violin (2 violins) and piano, guitar ad libitum
Автор: Stephen Turnbull Название: Fighting Ships of the Far East (1) ISBN: 1841763861 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781841763866 Издательство: Osprey Рейтинг: Цена: 2058.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Using detailed descriptions, accurate cutaway plates and reliable historical examples, this text covers the history of Chinese ship design and naval warfare from the beginning of the Han dynasty to the first few years of the Ming dynasty, when a Ming naval force countered Sichuanese rebels.
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