The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia

Volume 2, part 1 of this four-volume set charts the establishment of the colonial régimes during the period c. 1800 to 1930.

Nicholas Tarling (Edited by)

9780521663717, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 28 January 2000

364 pages, 6 maps
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.53 kg

'… invaluable for historians wanting a broad picture of the region … should also be of more general interest.' Danny Yee's Book Reviews

In these four volumes, first published in 2000 and now published in paperback, twenty-two scholars of international reputation consider the whole of mainland and island Southeast Asia from Burma to Indonesia. Each volume has a new preface which points to the relationships with the other volumes. The prefaces also comment on some of the research into and thinking about the subject undertaken since the original contributions were completed for the first edition. Volume 2, part 1 charts the establishment of the colonial régimes during the period c. 1800 to 1930 and defines this period as one of intensified European penetration, political consolidation by the dominant states, and economic transformation. Anti-colonial and nationalist movements are discussed.

1. The establishment of the colonial régimes Nicholas Tarling
2. Political structures in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Carl A. Trocki
3. International commerce, the state and society: economic and social change Robert E. Elson
4. Religion and anti-colonial movements Reynaldo Ileto
5. Nationalism and modernist reform Paul Kratoska and Ben Batson.

Subject Areas: Asian history [HBJF]