Nation Building : Five Southeast Asian Histories /
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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Singapore :
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies,
2005.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contemporary and national history: A double challenge
- Nation and state in histories of nation-building, with special reference to Thailand
- Rethinking history and "nation-building" in the Philippines
- Writing the history of independent Indonesia
- Ethnicity in the making of Malaysia
- Historians writing nations: Malaysian contests
- Writing Malaysia's contemporary history
- Forging Malaysia's contemporary history
- Forging Malaysia and Singapore: colonialism, decolonization and nation-building
- Nation-building and the Singapore story: some issues in the study of contemporary Singapore history
- Nation and heritage.