The Transformation of Southeast Asia: International Perspectives on Decolonization

ISBN-13: 9780765611406 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 358 str.

Marc Frey; Ronald W. Pruessen; Tai Yong Tan

Opis

Providing the basis for a reconceptualization of key features in Southeast Asia's history, this book examines evolutionary patterns of Europe's and Japan's Southeast Asian empires from the late 19th century through to the 1960s.

Spis treści

1: Dimensions of Decolonization; 2: The Impact of World War II on Decolonization; 3: The Economic Impact of Decolonization in Southeast Asia; 4: Monarchy and Decolonization in Indochina; 5: France and the Associated States of Indochina, 1945-1955; 6: The Indonesian Revolution and the Fall of the Dutch Empire; 7: Theories and Approaches to British Decolonization in Southeast Asia; 8: British Attitudes and Policies on Nationalism and Regionalism; 9: The Grand Design; 10: Making Malaya Safe for Decolonization; 11: Nationalism in the Decolonization of Singapore; 12: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Trusteeship, and U.S. Exceptionalism; 13: The United States and Southeast Asia in an Era of Decolonization, 1945-1965; 14: John Foster Dulles and Decolonization in Southeast Asia; 15: Between SEATO and ASEAN; 16: Parable of Seeds; 17: Afterword The Limits of Decolonization

O autorze

Marc Frey, Ronald W. Pruessen, Tan Tai Wong,