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Provides new perspectives on the role of European colonial monarchies, and the monarchies of Asia, in the late colonial period, during the process of decolonisation, and in its aftermath.
List of contents
1 Monarchies, decolonisation and post-colonial Asia - Robert Aldrich and Cindy McCreery
2 All the king's men: regal ministers of eclipsed empires - Priya Naik
3 Decolonised rulers: rajas, maharajas and others in post-colonial times - Jim Masselos
4 The Himalayan kingdoms, British colonialism and indigenous monarchs after the end of empire - Robert Aldrich
5 Conflict and betrayal: negotiations at the end of British rule in the Shan States of Burma (Myanmar) - Susan Conway
6 Malaysia's multi-monarchy: surviving colonisation and decolonisation - Anthony Milner
7 Celebrating the 'world's most ideal state': Sarawak and the Brook dynasty's centenary of 1941 - Donna Brunero
8 Refashioning the monarchy in Brunei: Sultan Omar Ali and the quest for royal absolutism - Naimah S. Talib
9 Colonial monarchy and decolonisation in the French Empire: Bao Dai, Norodom Sihanouk and Mohammed V - Christopher Goscha
10 Loyalism and anti-communism in the making of the modern monarchy in post-colonial Laos - Ryan Wolfson-Ford
11 Indonesia: sultans and the state - Jean Gelman Taylor
12 Defending the sultanate's territory: Yogyakarta during the Indonesian decolonisation, 1942-50 - Bayu Dardias Kurniadi
13 The uses of monarchy in late-colonial Hong Kong, 1967-97 - Mark Hampton
14 From absolute monarch to 'symbol emperor': decolonisation and the Japanese emperor after 1945 - Elise K. Tipton
15 Dramatising Siamese independence: Thai post-colonial perspectives on kingship - Irene Stengs
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About the author
Robert Aldrich is Professor of European History at the University of Sydney
Cindy McCreery is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Sydney
Summary
Provides new perspectives on the role of European colonial monarchies, and the monarchies of Asia, in the late colonial period, during the process of decolonisation, and in its aftermath. -- .
