The Transformation of Southeast Asia

Marc Frey, Ronald W. Pruessen, Tai Yong Tan, Tan Tai Yong

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317454243
• Subtopic: Economic History
• Index: History

This book provides the basis for a reconceptualization of key features in Southeast Asia's history. Scholars from Europe, America, and Asia examine evolutionary patterns of Europe's and Japan's Southeast Asian empires from the late nineteenth century through World War II, and offer important insights into the specific events of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. In turn, their different perspectives on the political, economic, and cultural currents of the "post-colonial" era - including Southeast Asia's gradual adjustment to globalizing forces - enhance understanding of the dynamics of the decolonization process. Drawing on new and wide-ranging research in international relations, economics, anthropology, and cultural studies, the book looks at the impact of decolonization and the struggle of the new nation-states with issues such as economic development, cultural development, nation-building, ideology, race, and modernization. The contributors also consider decolonization as a phenomenon within the larger international structure of the Cold War and the post-Cold War eras.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• 1. Dimensions of Decolonization
• 2. The Impact of World War II on Decolonization
• 3. The Economic Impact of Decolonization in Southeast Asia: Economic Nationalism and Foreign Direct Investment, 1945–1965
• 4. Monarchy and Decolonization in Indochina
• 5. France and the Associated States of Indochina, 1945–1955
• 6. The Indonesian Revolution and the Fall of the Dutch Empire: Actors, Factors, and Strategies
• 7. Theories and Approaches to British Decolonization in Southeast Asia
• 8. British Attitudes and Policies on Nationalism and Regionalism
• 9. The “Grand Design”: British Policy, Local Politics, and the Making of Malaysia, 1955–1961
• 10. Making Malaya Safe for Decolonization: The Rural Chinese Factor in the Counterinsurgency Campaign
• 11. “Nationalism” in the Decolonization of Singapore
• 12. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Trusteeship, and U.S. Exceptionalism: Reconsidering the American Vision of Postcolonial Vietnam
• 13. The United States and Southeast Asia in an Era of Decolonization, 1945–1965
• 14. John Foster Dulles and Decolonization in Southeast Asia
• 15. Between SEATO and ASEAN: The United States and the Regional Organization of Southeast Asia
• 16. Parable of Seeds: The Green Revolution in the Modernizing Imagination
• 17. Afterword: The Limits of Decolonization
• Notes
• About the Contributors
• Index