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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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Détails bibliographiques
Collectivités auteurs: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Thomson Gale (Firm)
Autres auteurs: Wang, Gungwu
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2005.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • 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.