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Christina Schwenkel's absorbing study explores how the "American War" is remembered and commemorated in Vietnam today -- in official and unofficial histories and in everyday life. Schwenkel analyzes visual representations found in monuments and martyrs' cemeteries, museums, photography and art exhibits, battlefield tours, and related sites of "trauma tourism." In these transnational spaces, American and Vietnamese memories of the war intersect in ways profoundly shaped by global economic liberalization and the return of American citizens as tourists, pilgrims, and philanthropists.
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The Political Handbook of the World 2024–2025 is the most authoritative and comprehensive reference guide available for understanding the political landscape of every nation and territory across the globe. This updated edition features more than 200 entries, offering detailed coverage of governmental structures, political parties, and current leadership. Known for its unmatched depth, the volume provides in-depth analysis of both major and minor political parties and movements, and delivers timely insights into recent controversies, political crises, and key events from the past two years. This edition also includes up-to-date listings of ambassadors, international organization memberships, and expanded profiles of over 30 intergovernmental organizations and UN agencies. Trusted by researchers, analysts, journalists, and students, this resource continues to deliver essential, reliable political data and analysis.
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Studies in the Contract Laws of Asia provides an authoritative account of the contract law regimes of selected Asian jurisdictions, including the major centres of commerce where limited critical commentaries have been published in the English language. Each volume in the series aims to offer an insider's perspective into specific areas of contract law - remedies, formation, parties, contents, vitiating factors, change of circumstances, illegality, and public policy - and explores how these diverse jurisdictions address common problems encountered in contractual disputes. A concluding chapter draws out the convergences and divergences, and other themes. All the Asian jurisdictions examined ha...
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