Nation Building : : Five Southeast Asian Histories / / ed. by Wang Gungwu.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Gungwu, Wang,; Hau, Caroline S.,; Hing, Lee Kam,; Kheng, Cheah Boon,; Lau, Albert,; Milner, Anthony,; Reid, Anthony,; Reynolds, Craig J.,; Stockwell, Tony,
• HerausgeberIn: Gungwu, Wang,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2005]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (298 p.)

The book addresses questions such as: how should historians treat the earlier pasts of each country and the nationalism that guided the nation-building tasks? Where did political culture come in, especially when dealing with modern challenges of class, secularism and ethnicity? What part do external or regional pressures play when the nations are still being built? The authors have thought deeply about the issues of writing nation-building histories and have tried to put them not only in the perspective of Southeast Asian developments of the past five decades, but also the larger areas of historiography today.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- The Contributors -- Chapter One. Contemporary and National History: A Double Challenge -- Chapter Two. Nation and State in Histories of Nation-Building, with Special Reference to Thailand -- Chapter Three. Rethinking History and “Nation-Building” in the Philippines -- Chapter Four. Writing the History of Independent Indonesia -- Chapter Five. Ethnicity in the Making of Malaysia -- Chapter Six. Historians Writing Nations: Malaysian Contests -- Chapter Seven. Writing Malaysia’s Contemporary History -- Chapter Eight. Forging Malaysia and Singapore: Colonialism, Decolonization and Nation-Building -- Chapter Nine. Nation-Building and the Singapore Story: Some Issues in the Study of Contemporary Singapore History -- Chapter Ten. Nation and Heritage -- Index