World War One in Southeast Asia - Colonialism and Anticolonialism in an Era of Global Conflict

Informationen zum Autor Heather Streets-Salter is Department Chair and Director of World History Programs at Northeastern University, Boston. Publications include Martial Races: The Military, Martial Races, and Masculinity in British Imperial Culture, 1857–1914 (2010), Traditions and Encounters: A Brief Global History (with Jerry Bentley and Herb Ziegler, 2013), and Empires and Colonies in the Modern World (with Trevor Getz, 2015). Klappentext An original study of the First World War's impact in Southeast Asia, extending our understanding of the conflict as a global phenomenon. Zusammenfassung Ranging across British Malaya, the Dutch East Indies, and French Indochina, World War One in Southeast Asia extends our understanding of the conflict as a truly global phenomenon. It reveals how the war shaped the region's political, economic, and social development both during 1914–18 and in the war's aftermath. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The Singapore Mutiny of 1915: global origins in a global war; 2. The defeat of the Singapore Mutiny: regional expression of global alliances; 3. Germans, Indians, and the war in the Dutch East Indies; 4. The SS Maverick and the unraveling of a global conspiracy; 5. Siam and the anti-Allied conspiracies; 6. China, Germany, and the Viet Nam Restoration Association.

Product details

• Authors: Heather Streets-Salter, Heather (Northeastern University Streets-Salter, Streets-Salter Heather
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2017
• EAN: 9781316501092
• ISBN: 978-1-316-50109-2
• No. of pages: 244
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; First World War, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, South East Asia, Asian History, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I