Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (297 p)
ISBN:
9789812303172
,
9789812303202
,
9812303170
,
9812303200
Serie:
History of nation-building series
Inhalt:
Nation-Building : five Southeast Asian histories -- 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 -- 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.
Inhalt:
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?
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
http://erf.sbb.spk-berlin.de/han/iglibrary/portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/search/ISEASB0000141.html
