Connecting Histories – Decolonization and the Cold War in Southeast Asia, 1945–1962 (eng)

Goscha, Christopher E.

ISBN 10: 0804769435 / ISBN 13: 9780804769433

Published by Stanford University Press, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Connecting Histories ? Decolonization and the Cold War in Southeast Asia, 1945?1962 (eng)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804769435
• ISBN 13: 9780804769433
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new
• Weight: 0.89 kilograms

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Synopsis

Connecting Histories: Decolonization and the Cold War in Southeast Asia draws on newly available archival documentation from both Western and Asian countries to explore decolonization, the Cold War, and the establishment of a new international order in post-World War II Southeast Asia. Major historical forces intersected here—of power, politics, economics, and culture—on trajectories East to West, North to South, across the South itself, and along less defined tracks. Especially important, democratic-communist competitions sought the loyalties of Southeast Asian nationalists, even as some colonial powers sought to resume their prewar dominance. These intersections are the focus of the contributions to this book, which use new sources and approaches to examine some of the most important historical trajectories of the twentieth century in Burma, Vietnam, Malaysia, and a number of other countries.

About the Author

Christopher E. Goscha is Associate Professor of History at the University of Québec at Montreal. Christian Ostermann directs the Woodrow Wilson Center's History and Public Policy Program. Contributors come from Canada, France, Malaysia, Russia, the Philippines, Singapore, the U.S., and the U.K.