Colonial Armies in Southeast Asia

Herausgeber: Hack, Karl; Rettig, Tobias

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Colonial armies were the focal points for some of the most dramatic tensions inherent in Chinese, Japanese and Western clashes with Southeast Asia. The international team of scholars take the reader on a compelling exploration from Ming China to the present day, examining their conquests, management and decolonization. The journey covers perennial themes such as the recruitment, loyalty, and varied impact of foreign-dominated forces. But it also ventures into unchartered waters by highlighting Asian use of 'colonial' forces to dominate other Asians. This sends the reader back in time to the fifteenth century Chinese expansion into Yunnan and Vietnam, and forwards to regional tensions in present-day Indonesia, and post-colonial issues in Malaysia and Singapore. Drawing these strands together, the book shows how colonial armies must be located within wider patterns of demography, and within bigger systems of imperial security and power - American, British, Chinese, Dutch, French, Indonesian, and Japanese - which in turn helped to shape modern Southeast Asia. Colonial Armies in Southeast Asia will interest scholars working on low intensity conflict, on the interaction between armed forces and society, on comparative imperialism, and on Southeast Asia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 538g
• ISBN-13: 9780415486354
• ISBN-10: 0415486351
• Artikelnr.: 53918242

Autorenporträt

Tobias Rettig, Karl Hack

Inhaltsangabe

1. Imperial Systems of Power, Colonial Forces, and the Making of Modern
Southeast Asia 2. Demography and Domination in Southeast Asia 3. Ming
Colonial Armies in Fifteenth Century Southeast Asia Experimenting with
Tools of Conquest and Domination 4. Ethnicity and Martial Races: The Garde
Indigène of Cambodia in the 1880s to 1890s 5. Double-Edged Swords of
Conquest in Indochina: Tirailleurs Tonkinois, Chasseurs Annamites, and
Militias, 1883-1895 6. The Mixed Company: Fighting Power and Ethnic
Relations in the Dutch Colonial Army, 1890-1920 Loyalty and Revolt in the
Era of Nationalism and War 7. American Exceptionalism in Colonial Forces?
The Philippine Scout Mutiny of 1924 8. French Military Dilemmas in
Indochina from 1900 to 1945: The Yen Bay Mutiny and its Aftermath 9.
Colonial Forces in British Burma: A National Army Postponed Decolonisation
10. The Impact of the Japanese Occupation on Colonial and Anti-Colonial
Armies 11. Imperialism and Decolonisation in Southeast Asia: Colonial
Forces and British World Power Post Colonial Analyses and Residues 12.
Colonial Militias in East Timor from the Portuguese Period to Independence
13. Colonial Forces and Postcolonial Memories: The Malay Regiment in
Malaysia and Singapore