Red star over Malaya resistance and social conflict during and after the Japanese occupation of Malaya, 1941-46 by Cheah, Boon Kheng

Table of Contents: “…The Contest for Postwar Malaya, 1945-1946 -- The Post-Surrender Interregnum -- The MPAJA Guerrillas Take Over -- Reign of Terror -- The Malay/ MCP/ Chinese Conflict -- Conflict between the Communists and the BMA -- The Malay-British Conflict -- Conclusion…”

Kuala Lumpur at war, 1939-1945 a history of Kuala Lumpur and Selangor during World War Two by Barber, Andrew 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Kempetei, Sook Chin and the reign of terror -- 9. Pudu Prison -- 10. Comfort houses and the case of Doris van der Straaten -- 11. …”

Alice in Wonderland by Sutherland, T.T. 1978-

Headlines in history the 1800s

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1 -- Thomas Jefferson assumes the American presidency, 1801 -- Inside Napoleon's empire -- Latin America wins an ambiguous independence -- Reconciling individualism and community in the New American republic -- Louisiana purchase and the Lewis and Clark expedition -- Chapter 2 -- Early factories improved workers' lives -- Struggle for political reform in Great Britain -- Emergence of a working class -- Communist manifesto -- Great exhibition -- Chapter 3 -- Bristish abolitionists attack slavery -- Russian serfdom and American slavery compared -- Missouri compromise of 1820 -- Abraham Lincoln and the emancipation proclamation -- Emancipation proclamation is a significant achievement -- Significance of America's civil war and the abolition of slavery -- Chapter 4 -- Reception of evolution -- Emergence of the student movement in Russia -- Irish potato famine brings national tragedy -- Reform acts expand democracy in Britain -- Queen Victoria: Stability within an era of change -- First women's rights convention -- Declaration of sentiments: Landmark of women's rights -- Chapter 5 -- Great Britain forces opium on China -- Roots of the sepoy munity in british India -- Taiping rebellion in China -- Reign of terror in the congo free state -- Successful westernization: Japan in 1900 -- United States must go to war with Mexico to defend itself -- Tactics and impact of India removal and reclocation -- Spanish-American war -- Chapter 6 -- Death of God -- Impressionism -- Gay nineties dance hall music -- Psychoanalysis and the oedipus complex -- Chapter 7 -- Louis Pasteur: Scientist of the wonderful century -- Electrifying the industrial age -- Marie Curie and the discovery of radium -- Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone.…”

The price of peace true accounts of the Japanese occupation

Political pluralism and the state beyond sovereignty / by Wissenburg, M. L. J. (Marcel L. J.)

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Sovereignty and the state -- Replies to political pluralization -- From politics to policy -- Citizen and citizenship -- The environment -- The undiscovered polis -- Political pluralization -- New polities, new problems -- Internationalization -- The treaty culture -- Dehierarchization -- The challenges of political pluralization -- Other directions -- The need to interfere -- Authoritative interference -- Politics versus economy: the green battlefield -- Green production -- Payoffs and incentives -- The need for political incentives -- A summary -- Conclusion -- Principles, discord and concord -- Principles and politics -- Objective truth -- The principle of popularity -- Controlled deliberation -- Philosophical and political liberalism -- Conclusion -- Sustainability as a policy telos -- Policy teloi -- Sustainable development: ecology versus environment -- Same telos, different place: liberal versus non-liberal societies -- Perspectives -- Beyond political principles -- Foundational principles -- Beyond the original position: the archpoint -- The restraint principle -- Beyond the archpoint -- Conclusion -- Alexandrism -- Cutting a knot -- Swords, axes and tweezers -- Murder as a political tool -- Torture, threats and the reign of terror -- The enlightened despot -- Proceduralism -- Lottery -- Conclusion -- The new polis -- The peppermill -- The myth of the state -- Conceptions of the polis -- Metropolis -- Conclusion -- Citizenship in the metropolis -- Introduction -- The rise and fall of mass democracy -- The complex concept of representation -- Mass democracy and representation -- Unequal and equal access -- Two futures for substantive representation -- The princes of industry -- Two kinds of proactive citizen -- A political history of the economy -- Social responsibility: fields and questions -- The impossibility of responsibility -- The civic role of enterprise -- Conclusion -- Harmony and political pluralization -- A political history -- Legitimate political pluralization -- Justice.…”
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Islam in a post-secular society religion, secularity and the antagonism of recalcitrant faith by Byrd, Dustin J.

Table of Contents: “…-- Genealogy of Terror -- Symbolic Message -- Reign of Terror: Bourgeois and Muslim -- The Perverse Dialectic of Apology -- Hypocritical Apologetics and the Recovery of the Prophetic -- 7. …”