Asian Freedoms
Subtitle: The Idea of Freedom in East and Southeast Asia (Cambridge Asia-Pacific Studies)
Contributors: David Kelly (Editor); Anthony Reid (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 13, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780521620352
Subjects: Freedom of information & freedom of speech; Political ideologies; Political Science; History - General History; Political And Civil Rights; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; History: World; ASIA; Asia - General; History & Theory - General; Human rights--Asia, Southeastern; Political Science / History & Theory; Asia, Southeastern; Civil rights; East Asia; Human rights
First sentence: In early 1995, former US Secretary of State Robert S. McNamara published a headline-making mea culpa regarding the US entanglement in Vietnam which included the following: We viewed the people and leaders of South Vietnam in terms of our own experience.