Скачать книгу - The Trouble With Tigers: The Rise and Fall of South-East Asia
(This edition contains a limited number of illustrations.)The most frank, readable and detailed account available in the English language of the political, economic, environmental and cultural changes sweeping through south-east Asia.By the mid-1990s, south-east Asia and its fast-growing economies were the envy of the world. The region’s leaders boasted that their societies, based on hard work and family values, were superior to those of the decadent West. Then came the financial crash of 1997.The Trouble with Tigers examines in detail the miracle that turned sour, including:• the debate about the existence of ‘Asian values’• the relationship between democracy and authoritarianism• SE Asia’s Generation X – as wild and happy-go-lucky as any Western teenagers• the region’s political and business leaders• the environmental disaster befalling the region• power politics – between Russia, China and the United States – in the regionVictor Mallet talks to politicians, drug addicts, environmentalists, warlords, prostitutes, peasant farmers and captains of industry in a vivid and perceptive study that sheds much-needed light on the complextities of this varied region.


An account of travels into the interior of Southern Africa, in the years 1797 and 1798 An account of travels into the interior of Southern Africa, in the years 1797 and 1798

Автор: John Barrow

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Полный вариант заголовка: «An account of travels into the interior of Southern Africa, in the years 1797 and 1798 : including cursory observations on the geology and geography of the southern part of that continent, the natural history of such objects as occurred in the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms, and sketches of the physical and moral characters of the various tribes of inhabitants surrounding the settlement of the Cape of Good Hope. To which is annexed, a description of the present state, population, and produce of that extensive colony / by John Barrow».


Travels and adventures in the Persian provinces on the southern banks of the Caspian Sea Travels and adventures in the Persian provinces on the southern banks of the Caspian Sea

Автор: James Baillie Fraser

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Полный вариант заголовка: «Travels and adventures in the Persian provinces on the southern banks of the Caspian sea : with an appendix, containing short notices of the geology and commerce of Persia / by James B. Fraser».


An account of the natives of the Tonga Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean. Vol. 2 An account of the natives of the Tonga Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean. Vol. 2

Автор: William Mariner

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Полный вариант заголовка: «An account of the natives of the Tonga Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean : with an orig. grammar a. vocabulary of their language : in 2 vol. Vol. 2».


An account of the natives of the Tonga Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean. Vol. 1 An account of the natives of the Tonga Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean. Vol. 1

Автор: William Mariner

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Полный вариант заголовка: «An account of the natives of the Tonga Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean : with an orig. grammar a. vocabulary of their language : in 2 vol. Vol. 1».


Account of the war in Spain and Portugal, and in the south of France Account of the war in Spain and Portugal, and in the south of France

Автор: John Thomas Jones

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Полный вариант заголовка: «Account of the war in Spain and Portugal, and in the south of France : from 1808, to 1814 inclusive / by John T. Jones».