Monarchies and decolonisation in Asia (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Aldrich, Robert; Mccreery, Cindy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

With original case studies of a more than a dozen countries, Monarchies and decolonisation in Asia offers new perspectives on how both European monarchs who reigned over Asian colonies and Asian royal houses adapted to decolonisation. As colonies became independent states (and European countries, and other colonial powers, lost their overseas empires), monarchies faced the challenges of decolonisation, republicanism and radicalism. These studies place dynasties - both European and 'native' - at the centre of debate about decolonisation and the form of government of new states, from the sovereigns of Britain, the Netherlands and Japan to the maharajas of India, the sultans of the East Indies and the 'white rajahs' of Sarawak. It provides new understanding of the history of decolonisation and of the history of modern monarchy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526142719
• Artikelnr.: 59561965

Autorenporträt

Robert Aldrich is Professor of European History at the University of Sydney Cindy McCreery is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Sydney

Inhaltsangabe

1 Monarchies, decolonisation and post
colonial Asia
Robert Aldrich and Cindy McCreery 2 All the king's men: regal ministers of eclipsed empires
Priya Naik 3 Decolonised rulers: rajas, maharajas and others in post
colonial times
Jim Masselos 4 The Himalayan kingdoms, British colonialism and indigenous monarchs after the end of empire
Robert Aldrich 5 Conflict and betrayal: negotiations at the end of British rule in the Shan States of Burma (Myanmar)
Susan Conway 6 Malaysia's multi
monarchy: surviving colonisation and decolonisation
Anthony Milner 7 Celebrating the 'world's most ideal state': Sarawak and the Brook dynasty's centenary of 1941
Donna Brunero 8 Refashioning the monarchy in Brunei: Sultan Omar Ali and the quest for royal absolutism
Naimah S. Talib 9 Colonial monarchy and decolonisation in the French Empire: Bao Dai, Norodom Sihanouk and Mohammed V
Christopher Goscha 10 Loyalism and anti
communism in the making of the modern monarchy in post
colonial Laos
Ryan Wolfson
Ford 11 Indonesia: sultans and the state
Jean Gelman Taylor 12 Defending the sultanate's territory: Yogyakarta during the Indonesian decolonisation, 1942
50
Bayu Dardias Kurniadi 13 The uses of monarchy in late
colonial Hong Kong, 1967
97
Mark Hampton 14 From absolute monarch to 'symbol emperor': decolonisation and the Japanese emperor after 1945
Elise K. Tipton 15 Dramatising Siamese independence: Thai post
colonial perspectives on kingship
Irene Stengs Index