Nationalism in Southeast Asia - If the People Are With Us

Informationen zum Autor Nicholas Tarling is a Fellow of the New Zealand Asia Institute, The University of Auckland. Klappentext "Nationalism in Southeast Asia "seeks a definition of nationalism through examining its role in the history of Southeast Asia! a region rarely included in general books on the topic. The state building of the colonial phase 1949-1975 is seen as a directed process with unexpected outcomes: it helped to create and to provoke opposition that took the form of "nationalist" movements. Tarling goes onto consider the role of nationalism in the "nation-building" of the post-colonial phase! and its relationship both with the democratic aspirations associated with the winning of independence and with the authoritarianism of the closing decades of the twentieth century. Zusammenfassung Nationalism in Southeast Asia seeks a definition of nationalism through examining its role in the history of Southeast Asia, a region rarely included in general books on the topic. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1 Definitions and Chronologies 1. Definitions 2. Chronologies Part 2 Colonial States 3. Construction 4. Nationalist Movements 5. Invasion and Interregnum Part 3 Nation-States 6. Independence 7. Popular Sovereignty 8. Challenges Part 4 Historiography 9. History and Heritage Bibliographical Note Index

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Tarling, Tarling Nicholas
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.08.2004
• EAN: 9780415334761
• ISBN: 978-0-415-33476-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General