The emergence of modern Southeast Asia : a new history / edited by Norman G. Owen

Author(s): Owen, Norman G.

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Main Title
The emergence of modern Southeast Asia : a new history
Author(s)
Owen, Norman G.
Publisher
Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 2005
Collation
xxiii, 541 pages : illustrations
26 cm
ISBN
9780824828905
Dewey Class
959
Contents
Introduction: Places and Peoples -- PART I: The Dynamics of the Eighteenth Century. 1. Southeast Asian Livelihoods -- 2. Inner Life and Identity -- 3. The Struggle for Political Authority -- PART II: New Choices and Constraints. 4. Dynasties, Colonies, Boundaries and Frontiers -- 5. Myanmar Becomes British Burma -- 6. Siam -- 7. Vietnam, 1700-1885: Disunity, Unity, and French Conquest -- 8. Cambodia, 1796-1884: Politics in a Tributary Kingdom -- 9. Realignments: The Making of the Netherlands East Indies (1750-1914) -- 10. The Malay negeri of the Peninsula and Borneo, 1775-1900 -- 11. The Spanish Philippines -- PART III: Economic, Political, and Social Transformations. 12. Globalization and Economic Change -- 13. New Modes of Production -- 14. Consolidation of Colonial Power and Centralization of State Authority -- 15. Living in a Time of Transition -- 16. Perceptions of Race, Gender, and Class in the Colonial Era -- 17. Channels of Change -- 18. Depression and War -- PART IV: Passages Out of the Colonial Era. 19. The Philippines, 1896-1972: From Revolution to Martial Law -- 20. Becoming Indonesia, 1900-1959 -- 21. British Malaya -- 22. British Burma and Beyond -- 23. Vietnam, 1885-1975: Colonialism, Communism, and Wars -- 24. Siam Becomes Thailand, 1910-1973 -- 25. Cambodia, 1884-1975 -- 26. Laos to 1975 -- PART V: Coping with Independence and Interdependence. 27. Industrialization and its Implications -- 28. Human Consequences of the Economic Miracle -- 29. Malaysia since 1957 -- 30. Singapore and Brunei -- 31. Indonesia: The First Fifty Years -- 32. The Kingdom of Thailand -- 33. The Philippines since 1972 -- 34. Vietnam after 1975: From Collectivism to Market Leninism -- 35. Cambodia since 1975 -- 36. Laos since 1975 -- 37. Burma Becomes Myanmar -- Afterword.
Language
English
Subject
Southeast Asia -- Historiography.
Southeast Asia -- History.
BRN
3165

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