1st Edition

Imperial Policy and Southeast Asian Nationalism

By Hans Antlov, Stein Tonnesson Copyright 1995
340 Pages
by Routledge

338 Pages
by Routledge

338 Pages
by Routledge

Traditionally, the tumultuous period 1930-50 in South East Asia has been viewed as a dichotomy, of European vs Asian or imperialist vs nationalist. This highly acclaimed volume presents another (triangular) perspective and challenges established wisdom about the period.

Introduction; Pictures at an Exhibition; The Man Who Knew Too Much: Ch.O. van der Plas and the Future of Indonesia, 1927–1950; French, Dutch, British and US Reactions to the Ngh? T?nh Rebellion of 1930–1931 1; Screwing down the People: The Malayan Emergency, Decolonisation and Ethnicity; Filling the Power Vacuum: 1945 in French Indochina, the Netherlands East Indies and British Malaya; The Chinese Occupation of Northern Vietnam, 1945–1946: A Reappraisal 1; World War and Village War: Changing Patterns of Rural Conflict in Southeast Asia, 1945–1955; The International Construction of Indonesian Nationhood, 1930–1950 1; Rulers in Imperial Policy. Sultan Ibrahim, Emperor Báo ??i, and Sultan Hamengku Buwono IX; Primitive Partisans: French Strategy and the Construction of a Montagnard Ethnic Identity in Indochina 1

Biography

Hans Antlov, Stein Tonnesson