Imperial alchemy : nationalism and political identity in Southeast Asia /
"The mid-twentieth century marked one of the greatest watersheds of Asian history, when a range of imperial constructs were declared to be nation-states, either by revolution or decolonisation. Nationalism was the great alchemist, turning the base metal of empire into the gold of nations. To ac...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Nationalism and Asia
- Understanding Southeast Asian nationalisms
- Chinese as a Southeast Asian 'other'
- Malay (Melayu) and its descendants : multiple meanings of a porous category
- Aceh : memories of monarchy
- Sumatran Bataks : from statelessness to Indonesian diaspora
- Lateforming ethnie in Malaysia : Kadazan or Dusun
- Imperial alchemy-revolutionary dreams.