Imperial Policy and Southeast Asian Nationalism

ISBN-13: 9780700703197 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 322 str.

Hans Antlov; Stein Tonnesson

Opis

The period 1930-50 in Southeast Asia was a tumultuous period. Above all it was marked by the decline and demise of imperial power. Traditionally, this process has been viewed as a dichotomy, of European versus Asian or imperialist versus nationalist. What these papers present, however, is another perspective: one that advocates a triangular approach to the construction of nationality in Southeast Asia. One such triangle which is examined is the power relationship between colonial authorities, traditional rulers and nationalist leaders and their quite different views of the general population: natives, subjects and the people respectively. This is a collection that challenges established wisdom about mid-20th-century imperial policies and nationalism in a region where it thrives. By its nature, this book should be of interest to historians, political scientists and anthropologists alike.

Spis treści

Introduction; Pictures at an Exhibition; The Man Who Knew Too Much: Ch.O. van der Plas and the Future of Indonesia, 1927–1950; French, Dutch, British and US Reactions to the Ngh? T?nh Rebellion of 1930–1931 1; Screwing down the People: The Malayan Emergency, Decolonisation and Ethnicity; Filling the Power Vacuum: 1945 in French Indochina, the Netherlands East Indies and British Malaya; The Chinese Occupation of Northern Vietnam, 1945–1946: A Reappraisal 1; World War and Village War: Changing Patterns of Rural Conflict in Southeast Asia, 1945–1955; The International Construction of Indonesian Nationhood, 1930–1950 1; Rulers in Imperial Policy. Sultan Ibrahim, Emperor Báo ??i, and Sultan Hamengku Buwono IX; Primitive Partisans: French Strategy and the Construction of a Montagnard Ethnic Identity in Indochina 1

O autorze

Hans Antlov, Stein Tonnesson