The thematic approach of the book deviates from the usual country-to-country approach espoused my most authors on the subject. It gives the reader a better understanding of the milestones and institutions of Souutheast Asia. It is more of a "why" and "how" approach, instead of the "who", "what", and "when" approach. In short, very scholarly!

Much of the finest literature out of the Vietnam War was its "oral histories." This overlooked volume is one of the best, ranking in the top five among 200 Vietnam vets interviewed. The interweaving of voices from the war and voices from the homefront capture the era between hammer and anvil and will tear your heart out. The other four? EVERYTHING WE HAD, BLOODS, A PIECE OF MY HEART and NAM: AN ORAL HISTORY.

This book is awesome! There are over 5500 items from the nineteenth century up to the 1960's reproduced in full color--receipts, cigarettes, comic books, lottery tickets, package labels, newspapers, letterheads, postcards, etc. If you're a fan of Thai culture, this is a must. Has to be seen to be believed.

An excellent, brief, and well-written and researched melding of politics and history, focusing on the first major constitutional crisis of the new American republic. Professor Norgren correctly concludes that the principled and persistent effort of the Cherokees should be a shining example for all American Indians (and non-Indians) to follow in the quest to maintain and expand fundamental human rights. The larger question that still faces Americans today is why has the U.S. political system been unable to find a way of incorporating cultural or national diversity within the constitutional framework of a federal republic, and instead chosen to remove, marginalize, assimilate or terminate Native Americans?

A comprehensive history of the Cherokees up to the Trail of Tears. This history covers the building of a great nation that was able to maintain its own culture while integrating with the developing America, and its subsequent downfall.

I work at a Cherokee historic site and I highly recommend this book. It reads like a novel and is gripping! By far the most in-depth, unbiased work written on the "Trail of Tears". If you buy no other Cherokee history book, buy this one!

I found this book to be very interesting. I found references made to my 5th Great Grandfather Samuel Riley and his son Richard Riley. It was very interesting and fasinating reading history on your own ancestors and their ways of life. My cousin found this book fasinating after she read parts of mine, that she went and bought it for herself.

Put Bruce Lombardo's "Chew Toy of the Gnat Gods" on the shelf right next to Edwin Waye Teale's "seasonal" nature books....but not until after you have had a great time reading this charming account of a year's observation of wildlife on the Southeast coast of the US. It's a must read for those of us who love the Georgia and South Carolina coast...and for those who have yet to discover the delights of this area.

If you are unfamiliar with the glass arts of Chihuly, this colorful gem will fill you with awe and wonder. Chihuly's creative daring, skills and kinetic style with team artisans is world renowned and celebrated. His works are an explosion of shapes and color, and this book puts it all before you in a very intimate size.

Never has a writer colorfully described the World War II as Norman Reyes. He successfully remembered all the rich details of having to live in the Philippines during the pre-war era when the country was being Americanized. His rich details of the war and his heroic acts during the occupation of the Japanese brings us the front seat experience of how Filipinos and Americans became involved in such a bloody fight considered as one of the bloodiest in Philippine history