The Transformation of Southeast Asia: International Perspectives on Decolonization - Hardcover

Frey, Marc; Pruessen, Ronald W.; Tan, Tai Yong; Yong, Tan Tai

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0765611392 ISBN 13: 9780765611390

Publisher: Routledge, 2003

Synopsis

This book provides the basis for a reconceptualization of key features in Southeast Asia's history. Scholars from Europe, America, and Asia examine evolutionary patterns of Europe's and Japan's Southeast Asian empires from the late nineteenth century through World War II, and offer important insights into the specific events of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. In turn, their different perspectives on the political, economic, and cultural currents of the "post-colonial" era - including Southeast Asia's gradual adjustment to globalizing forces - enhance understanding of the dynamics of the decolonization process. Drawing on new and wide-ranging research in international relations, economics, anthropology, and cultural studies, the book looks at the impact of decolonization and the struggle of the new nation-states with issues such as economic development, cultural development, nation-building, ideology, race, and modernization. The contributors also consider decolonization as a phenomenon within the larger international structure of the Cold War and the post-Cold War eras.

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The Transformation of Southeast Asia Historians and political scientists from North America, Europe, Singapore, and New Zealand cross up-to-date archival data with current theories in such fields as international relations, economics, anthropology, and cultural studies to point the way for rethinking key features of the region's history, and to highlight some of the insights that can emerge from new questions and new perspectives. Th... Full description

Review:

"As we move further and further away from the European imperial age the historical significance of colonialism and decolonization seems to grow. Here is a volume of strong essays that Investigate the ending of European rule right across Southeast Asia - comparing the experience of one society with another, and showing how the constitutional and economic configuration of the region has been shaped by the colonial experience. The view is stated eloquently that to understand Southeast Asia today we must recognize that the process of decolonization is still underway."

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0765611392
• ISBN 13: 9780765611390
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 372