Charles Higham

The Bronze Age of Southeast Asia has been described as an enigma and a challenge. Some specialists have claimed that the earliest bronze working in the world occurred here, suggesting a cultural sequence that fails to fit a world-wide pattern. Others see it as distinct from parallel developments in other parts of the world. This book is the first comprehensive study of the period, placed within its broader regional context. Charles Higham suggests that the adoption of metallurgy followed a period of agricultural expansion into Southeast Asia, originating in the rice growing cultures of the Yangzi Valley. The first acquaintance with copper and tin smelting may have taken place as a result of growing exchange between the late neolithic inhabitants of Southeast Asia and the Shang and Zhou states of the Central Plains of China. The latter provided exotic bronzes, the former adopted the new technology and adapted it to their own needs. However, the chronology remains unclear, and local origins remain a viable alternative hypothesis. When set in a broader comparative framework, the early development of Bronze Age societies in Southeast Asia is found to have more similarities than differences with those in Iberia, the Aegean, the near East and Chinese nuclear area. . The author traces the development of Bronze Age cultures into the Iron Age, identifying regionality and innovation. Along the northern borders of Southeast Asia, chiefdoms developed within the context of Chinese Imperial expansion. To the south, societies entered into a growing exchange network which incorporated India and the Roman Empire. Higham shows how these distinct regional developments contributed to the emergence of Southeast Asian states. The Bronze Age of Southeast Asia provides a systematic and regional presentation of the current evidence. Using a thematic approach, Charles Higham provides an up-to-date account of the Southeast Asian and Chinese Bronze Ages, documenting evidence site by site. This is the first time these regions have been integrated in research to provide an understanding of how and why their distinct cultures developed.

Research report on Phanom Di Burial Mound, archeological site in Chachoengsao Province, Thailand.

With the first-time cooperation of Louis B. Mayer's family and surviving associates, Higham tells of the public successes and private agonies of the man who personified the Hollywood mogul.

Micaela Urtiaga Four es la soprano mas exitosa de los teatrosliricos europeos de principios del siglo XX. Pero la soledad, las perdidas y los recuerdos pueden mas que todos losaplausos y la joven decide regresar a su tierra natal, Argentina.sin embargo, el remanso que ansiaba hallar en Buenos Airesse convierte en un torbellino cuando su vida se verepentinamente vinculada a la de Carlo Varzi, un proxenetadel barrio de La Boca, hombre bajo y sin escrupulos, con unpasado tan oscuro como su presente. Asi, la soprano favoritade la C"pera de Paris se vera obligada a cantar tangos enmedio de un ambiente sordido y desconocido, en uno de losburdeles de Carlo Varzi, bajo el seudonimo de Marlene.Aunque tratara de vencer la atraccion que ese cafishio deLa Boca ejerce sobre ella, finalmente cedera al impulso queLa domina. Remordimientos y temores, deseos y pasion seenfrentaran, y el conflicto sera inevitable.Data novela, ambientada en la Buenos Aires que vio nacer eltango, los conventillos y el cocoliche, muestra como lossentimientos se niegan a reconocer clases sociales y realidadeseconomicas. Retrata la historia de una mujer que lucha par.superar sus miedos y defender su amor, y la de un hombreque intenta redimirse en el contexto mas denigrante, tambien por amor.

The untold story of the Queen of England and her prince.

"From growing up the son of alcoholic, philandering parents to his recent public agony as the father of a convicted killer, Marlon Brando has lived a life beset by personal demons. Behind the myth, beneath his immense fame and fortune, he is a troubled man whom few people really know. For the first time, Brando unveils him whole: from the height of his talents to the depths of his despair; his sexual compulsions, the endless years of psychotherapy, the girlfriends who've committed suicide, his eating disorders, his notorious psychological manipulations, his lifelong love/hate relationships with his children (legitimate and not), his involvement with the radical American Indian Movement, and his controversial seclusion in Tahiti. Gripping, astonishing, and utterly revealing, Brando is both a towering achievement and exactly the biography that its subject so richly deserves."--BOOK JACKET.

"Wallis, the Duchess of Windsor, was one of the most famous women in history, the American divorcee who captured the King of England, Edward VIII, and cost him his throne. Until Charles Higham's 1.3 million-copy bestseller, much of her life was a glamorous mystery. Now, fifteen years later, major new documentary evidence, classified at the time, makes for a book far more sensational than the original bestseller. Drawing from long-suppressed archives in France, England, and the United States, Higham has uncovered the duchess's passionate affair with a top-ranking political figure, the duke's romantic involvement with a male equerry, the secret radio broadcasts the couple made to Hitler, and the blackmail plot in Paris that almost brought them - and the British royal family - to ruin."--BOOK JACKET.

Recounts the life of the man responsible for the infamous "War of the Worlds" broadcast.