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The emergence of modern Southeast Asia a new history

The Emergence of Modern Southeast Asia offers a new and up-to-date perspective on this complex region. Although it does not neglect nation-building (the central theme of its popular and long-lived predecessor, In Search of Southeast Asia), the present work focuses on economic and social history, gen...

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Other Authors: Owen, Norman G. (Editor), Chandler, David (Editor), Roff, William R. (Editor), Steinberg, David Joel (Editor), Taylor, Jean Gelman (Editor), Taylor, Robert H. (Editor), Woodside, Alexander (Editor), Wyatt, David K. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Honolulu University of Hawaiʻi Press [2005]
Subjects:
Southeast Asia > history
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Table of Contents:
  • Southeast Asian livelihoods
  • Inner life and identity
  • The struggle for political authority
  • Dynasties and colonies, boundaries and frontiers
  • Myanmar becomes British Burma
  • Siam : from Ayutthaya to Bangkok
  • Vietnam, 1700-1885 : disunity, unity, and French conquest
  • Cambodia, 1796-1884 : politics in a tributary kingdom
  • Realignments : the making of the Netherlands East Indies, 1750-1914
  • The Malay Negeri of the Peninsula and Borneo, 1775-1900
  • The Spanish Philippines
  • Globalization and economic change
  • Modes of production, old and new
  • Consolidation of colonial power and centralization of state authority
  • Living in a time of transition
  • Perceptions of race, gender, and class in the colonial era
  • Channels of change
  • Depression and war
  • The Philippines, 1896-1972 : from revolution to martial law
  • Becoming Indonesia, 1900-1959
  • British Malaya
  • British Burma and beyond
  • Vietnam, 1885-1975 : colonialism, communism, and wars
  • Siam becomes Thailand, 1910-1973
  • Cambodia, 1884-1975
  • Laos to 1975
  • Industrialization and its implications
  • Human consequences of the economic "miracle"
  • Malaysia since 1957
  • Singapore and Brunei
  • Indonesia : the first fifty years
  • The kingdom of Thailand
  • The Philippines since 1972
  • Vietnam after 1975 : from collectivism to market Leninism
  • Cambodia since 1975
  • Laos since 1975
  • Burma becomes Myanmar
  • The dynamics of the eighteenth century
  • New choices and constraints
  • Economic, political, and social transformations
  • Passages out of the colonial era
  • Coping with independence and interdependence

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