Nation Building : : Five Southeast Asian Histories /

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

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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (298 p.)
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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

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