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Nationalism in Southeast Asia
If The People Are With Us
by Nicholas Tarling, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

RoutledgeCurzon Studies in the Modern History of Asia

RoutledgeCurzon

August 2004: 234x156: 280pp
Hb: 0-415-33476-4: £65.00

Market: Asian Studies, Politics and History

Published by: Taylor and Francis Group

Synopsis:
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. By developing such a definition and testing it out, Nicholas Tarling hopes at the same time to make a contribution to Southeast Asian historiography and to limit its 'ghettoization'. Tarling considers 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.

Contents:

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