The Establishment of the Colonial Régimes

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1 - The Establishment of the Colonial Régimes

from PART ONE - FROM c. 1800 TO THE 1930s

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Nicholas Tarling

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Nicholas Tarling: Affiliation:
The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Nicholas Tarling: Affiliation:
University of Auckland

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This part of the work deals with Southeast Asia between the late eighteenth century of the Christian era and World War II. The opening chapter, which is in a sense complementary to the closing chapter of the previous volume, describes and endeavours to account for the incorporation of most of the region within the frontiers of European empires. Subsequent chapters describe the political structures, the economic and social life, and the religions and popular culture of the region. A final chapter includes a discussion of nationalism and nationalist movements.

In the previous phase, Spanish and Dutch realms had been established in maritime Southeast Asia. By the end of the nineteenth century, only Siam (Thailand) stood outside the formal empires of external powers. Those powers sought to avoid conflict among themselves by settling the frontiers of their territories. In so doing they took more or less notice of the previous history and present condition of the lands and peoples over which they claimed authority. Yet the frontiers had a degree of rigidity unusual in Southeast Asia.

Chapter 1 describes this outcome. It also endeavours to describe the process by which it was reached, and in particular to take account of the role within it of the rulers and peoples of Southeast Asia as well as the Europeans. Within the emerging framework, there was further interaction in many fields of human endeavour. This is in a sense the subject of the subsequent chapters in this part, which also pursue lines of investigation that parallel chapters in the first volume. Chapter 5, too, deals with the emergence of nationalism within the colonial framework. The statecraft of the imperial period came under challenge.

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Information: The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia , pp. 1 - 78

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521355063.002 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 1993

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