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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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Thomson Gale (Firm)
Other Authors: Wang, Gungwu
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Politieke cultuur.
Etnische betrekkingen.
Nationalisme.
Staatsvorming.
Politics and government
Nation-building.
Reconstruction d'une nation > Asie du Sud-Est.
Nation-building > Southeast Asia.
Thailand.
Southeast Asia.
Singapore.
Philippines.
Malaysia.
Indonesia.
Singapour > Histoire.
Indonesie > Histoire.
Philippines > Histoire.
Thaïlande > Histoire.
Asie du Sud-Est > Politique et gouvernement.
Asie du Sud-Est > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Singapore > History.
Malaysia > History.
Indonesia > History.
Philippines > History.
Thailand > History.
Southeast Asia > Politics and government.
Southeast Asia > History > 20th century.
History
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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