Nations and States in Southeast Asia

by Nicholas Tarling

• ISBN13: 9780521625647
• ISBN10: 0521625645
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-05-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This reflective and provocative 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's three sections give a broad historical overview of individual nation-states, reflect on significant problems in understanding Southeast Asia, and explore the current state of writing Southeast Asian history. This book reflects a lifetime's scholarship and will become a major interpretive synthesis of modern Southeast Asia.

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.