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1. Southeast Asian Minorities in the Wartime Japanese Empire

   Edited by Paul H. Kratoska

   The Japanese invasion and occupation of southeast Asia provided opportunities for the peoples of the region to pursue a wide range of agendas that had little to do with the larger issues which drove the conflict between Japan and the allies. This book explores how the occupation affected various...

   Published June 21st 2012 by Routledge
2. The Thailand-Burma Railway, 1942-1946

   Documents and Selected Writings

   Edited by PAUL KRATOSKA

   The construction of the railway between Thailand and Burma in the Second World War using forced labour and prisoners of war has been the subject of numerous memoirs, novels and the famous Hollywood film The Bridge over the River Kwai. Yet documentation and primary sources offering an account of the...

   Published October 19th 2005 by Routledge
3. South East Asia

   Colonial History

   Edited by Paul H. Kratoska

   The six volumes that make up this set provide an overview of colonialism in South East Asia. The first volume deals with Portuguese, Spanish and Dutch Imperialism before 1800, the second with empire-building during the Nineteenth Century, and the third with the imperial heyday in the early...

   Published June 13th 2001 by Routledge