Nations and States in Southeast Asia
Nations and States in Southeast Asia
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USDThis reflective and provocative 1998 book outlines the emergence of the nation-states of modern Southeast Asia. It considers various ways of looking at Southeast Asian history, combining narrative, analysis, and discussion. The book focuses mainly on the period from the eighteenth century to the present. It is divided into three sections: the first gives a broad historical overview of Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, the Philippines, Burma/Myanmar, Vietnam, and Siam/Thailand; the second reflects, in a comparative context, on significant problems in understanding Southeast Asia's past and present; the third explores the current state of writing Southeast Asian history. Underlying the discussion is an awareness of how ongoing tensions between East and West shape history and frame the present. This book reflects a lifetime's scholarship and will become a major interpretive synthesis of modern Southeast Asia.
- Comprehensively outlines the emergence of modern states of Southeast Asia
- Regional and comparative focus in discussion of topics
- Author vastly experienced and respected
Reviews & endorsements
"...this book is a welcome summation of the life work of a thoughtful scholar." Crossroads
"...Tarling unleashes a myriad of ideas which, on setting down this book, the reader will do well to ponder." The International History Review
Product details
May 1998Paperback
9780521625647
148 pages
229 × 152 × 8 mm
0.21kg
1 map
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Part I. Present and Past:
- 1. Indonesia
- 2. Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei
- 3. The Philippines
- 4. Burma/Myanmar
- 5. Vietnam
- 6. Siam/Thailand
- Part II. Problems and Policies:
- 7. Colonial and national frontiers
- 8. Colonial authority
- 9. The industrial revolution
- 10. Parliamentary government and Southeast Asia
- 11. Nationalism
- 12. The Japanese
- 13. Gaining independence
- 14. Democratic institutions
- 15. International factors in the winning of independence
- 16. Armies
- 17. Millenarianism
- 18. Foreign policy
- Part III. Period and Perspectives:
- 19. Time and place
- 20. Septentrionalism.
