The Transformation of Southeast Asia (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780765611390)

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.

Author: Marc Frey,Ronald W. Pruessen,Tai Yong Tan
ISBN-10: 0765611392
ISBN-13: 9780765611390
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 05/31/2003
Pages: 372
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.43lbs
Size: 9.26h x 5.98w x 1.17d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2004 pg. 1530