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9789812303172 Academic Inspection Copy

Nation Building

Five Southeast Asian Histories
  • ISBN-13: 9789812303172
  • Publisher: ISEAS
    Imprint: ISEAS
  • Edited by Wang Gungwu
  • Price: AUD $66.99
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 29/08/2005
  • Format: Paperback 288 pages Weight: 442g
  • Categories: Asian history [HBJF]South East Asia [1FM]
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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 or regional pressures play when the nations are still being built? The authors have thought deeply about the issues of writing nation-building histories and have tried to put them not only in the perspective of Southeast Asian developments of the past five decades, but also the larger areas of historiography today.
Preliminary pages; 1. Contemporary and National History: A Double Challenge by Wang Gungwu; 2. Nation and State in Histories of Nation-Building, with Special Reference to Thailand by Craig J Reynolds; 3. Rethinking History and ""Nation-Building"" in the Philippines by Caroline S Hau; 4. Writing the History of Independent Indonesia by Anthony J S Reid; 5. Ethnicity in the Making of Malaysia by Cheah Boon Kheng; 6. Historians Writing Nations: Malaysian Contests by Anthony Milner; 7. Writing Malaysia's Contemporary History by Lee Kam Hing; 8. Forging Malaysia and Singapore: Colonialism, Decolonization and Nation-Building by Anthony Stockwell; 9. Nation-Building and the Singapore Story: Some Issues in the Study of Contemporary Singapore History by Albert Lau; 10. Nation and Heritage by Wang Gungwu; Index.
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