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REMAKING AREA STUDIES: Teaching and Learning Across Asia and the Pacific | Edited by Terence Wesley-Smith and Jon Goss

Timothy Cheek

A CONCISE HISTORY OF MODERN KOREA: From the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present | By Michael Seth

Kyung Moon Hwang

NOT A POOR MAN’S FIELD: The New Guinea Goldfields to 1942; An Australian Colonial History | By Michael Waterhouse

Martha Macintyre

ASEAN’S MYANMAR CRISIS: Challenges to the Pursuit of a Security Community | By Christopher Roberts

Jurgen Haacke

ATTRACTING THE HEART: Social Relations and the Aesthetics of Emotion in Sri Lankan Monastic Culture | By Jeffrey Samuels

Michael Carrithers

WHALING IN JAPAN: Power, Politics, and Diplomacy | By Jun Morikawa

Anny Wong

QUEST FOR HARMONY: The Moso Traditions of Sexual Union and Family Life | By Chuan-Kang Shih

Elisabeth Hsu

DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES OF A WHITE AUSTRALIA: Representing Aboriginal Assimilation in the Mid-twentieth Century | By Catriona Elder

Jeanine Leane

BETWEEN FRONTIERS: Nation and Identity in a Southeast Asian Borderland. Research in International Studies | By Noburo Ishikawa

Alexander Horstmann

NUCLEUS AND NATION: Scientists, International Networks and Power in India | By Robert S. Anderson

M.V. Ramana