ABSTRACT
Providing the basis for a reconceptualization of key features in Southeast Asia's history, this book examines evolutionary patterns of Europe's and Japan's Southeast Asian empires from the late 19th century through to the 1960s.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 3|17 pages
The Economic Impact of Decolonization in Southeast Asia
Economic Nationalism and Foreign Direct Investment, 1945-1965
chapter 6|22 pages
The Indonesian Revolution and the Fall of the Dutch Empire
Actors, Factors, and Strategies
chapter 9|19 pages
The "Grand Design"
British Policy, Local Politics, and the Making of Malaysia, 1955-1961
chapter 10|19 pages
Making Malaya Safe for Decolonization
The Rural Chinese Factor in the Counterinsurgency Campaign
chapter 12|16 pages
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Trusteeship, and U.S. Exceptionalism
Reconsidering the American Vision of Postcolonial Vietnam
chapter 15|16 pages
Between SEATO and ASEAN
The United States and the Regional Organization of Southeast Asia
