Southeast Asia
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Sami Abouzahr untangles US policy towards France at the time of the Marshall Plan and the war in Indochina. |
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The American soldiers who fought their way through the islands of the Pacific during the Second World War encountered fierce Japanese resistance but few local people. That all changed with the invasion of the Mariana Islands, says Matthew Hughes. Published in History Today, Volume: 60 Issue: 2, 2010
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June 31st, 1959 - Richard Cavendish remembers how a former-British colony gained a long-serving leader. Published in History Today, Volume: 59 Issue: 6
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Vietnamese troops faced little resistence when they entered Cambodia's capital on January 7th, 1979. |
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Viv Sanders takes issue with some all too common assumptions. |
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Mark Bryant looks at the cartoons published in imperial Japan during the Second World War. |
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The independent Federation of Malaya came into being on August 31st, 1957. |
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Kendrick Oliver revisits the scene of an infamous massacre that became a watershed in public perceptions of the Vietnam war, and asks what it means to America, almost forty years on. |
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Sami Abouzahr untangles US policy towards France at the time of the Marshall Plan and the war in Indochina. Published in History Today, Volume: 54 Issue: 10
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Ben Kiernan points out the progress, and difficulties, in recovering history and justice after genocide. |
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Richard Cavendish describes the French defeat in Indochina, on May 7th, 1954. |
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Merle Ricklefs seeks clues for the future of the troubled archipelago nation in its distant past. |
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Jessica Harrison-Hall introduces the upcoming exhibition of Vietnamese art at the British Museum.
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Tony Stockwell looks behind the exotic facade to examine the role of the kings of Siam and Thailand in modernising their country. Published in History Today, Volume: 50 Issue: 7
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Revolutions and changes of dynasty seem to have happened with the regularity of clockwork on the island of Java. M.C. Ricklefs investigates. |
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Richard Cavendish explains how the proposal to change the name of Siam to Thailand was eventually accepted on May 11th, 1949. |
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