Escaping Kakania: Eastern European Travels in Colonial Southeast Asia

by Jan Mrazek

Escaping Kakania is about fascinating characters-soldiers, doctors, scientists, writers, painters-who traveled from their eastern European homelands to colonial Southeast Asia. Their stories are told by experts on different countries in the two regions, who bring diverse approaches into a conversation that crosses disciplinary and national borders.

The 14 chapters deal with the diverse encounters of eastern Europeans with the many faces...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9633866650
• ISBN13: 9789633866658
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Central European University Press
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher