Tearing Apart the Land

by Duncan McCargo

Book Overview

Since January 2004, a violent separatist insurgency has raged in southern Thailand, resulting in more than three thousand deaths. Though largely unnoticed outside Southeast Asia, the rebellion in Pattani and neighboring provinces and the Thai government's harsh crackdown have resulted in a full-scale crisis. Tearing Apart the Land by Duncan McCargo, one of the world's leading scholars of contemporary Thai politics, is the first fieldwork-based...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080147499X
• ISBN13: 9780801474996
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.3"