Forgotten Wars - The End of Britain's Asian Empire

Informationen zum Autor Tim Harper is Professor of the History of Southeast Asia at the University of Cambridge, a Director of the Centre for History and Economics, and a Fellow of Magdalene College. He was the co-author with Christopher Bayly of two landmark Penguin books on the British Empire's experience of the Second World War in south and southeast Asia: Forgotten Armies and Forgotten Wars . Klappentext This extraordinary book is a vivid highly original account of the creation of a new Asia after the Second World War - an unstoppable wave of nationalism that swept the British Empire aside. It tells the definitive story of how India Pakistan Burma and Malaysia came into existence and how British interference in Vietnam and Indonesia fatally shaped those countries' futures. Zusammenfassung This extraordinary book is a vivid, highly original account of the creation of a new Asia after the Second World War - an unstoppable wave of nationalism that swept the British Empire aside. It tells the definitive story of how India, Pakistan, Burma and Malaysia came into existence and how British interference in Vietnam and Indonesia fatally shaped those countries' futures.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Christopher Bayly, Tim Harper
• Verlag: Penguin Books Uk
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.01.2008
• EAN: 9780141017389
• ISBN: 978-0-14-101738-9
• Seiten: 720
• Themen: Sachbuch; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Asia, British Empire, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / Military / Wars & Conflicts (Other), POLITICAL SCIENCE / Imperialism, Colonialism & imperialism, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 1950 to c 1959, Colonialism and imperialism, C 1945 To C 1960