Limit search to available items
Book Cover
Book

Title Gangsters, democracy, and the state in Southeast Asia / Carl A. Trocki, editor
Published Ithaca, N.Y. : Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 1998

Copies

Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 MELB  959.053 Tro/Gda  AVAILABLE
Description 94 pages ; 26 cm
Series Southeast Asia Program series ; no. 17
Southeast Asia Program series ; no. 17
Contents Democracy in the state of Southeast Asia / Carl A. Trocki -- The sinking schooner: murder and the state in independent Burma, 1948-1958 / Mary P. Callahan -- Crime, society and politics in Thailand / James Ockey -- Murder, Inc., Cavite: capitalist development and political gangsterism in a Phillipine province / John T. Sidel -- "Muslim" political brokers and the Phillipines nation-state / Patricio N. Abinales
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Corruption -- Southeast Asia.
Crime -- Southeast Asia -- History -- 20th century.
Democracy -- Southeast Asia.
Gangs -- Southeast Asia -- History -- 20th century.
Gangsters -- Southeast Asia -- History -- 20th century.
Organized crime -- Southeast Asia -- History -- 20th century.
Political corruption -- Southeast Asia -- History -- 20th century.
State, The.
SUBJECT Asia, Southeastern -- Politics and government -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007765
Author Trocki, Carl A.
Cornell University. Southeast Asia Program.
LC no. 98234810
ISBN 0877271348