Nation-building : five Southeast Asian histories

Author(s)

• 王, 賡武 オウ, コウブ wang, geng wu

Bibliographic Information

Nation-building : five Southeast Asian histories

edited by Wang Gungwu

（History of nation-building series）

ISEAS, 2005

• : soft cover
• : hard cover

Note

"The essays in this volume are the product of a conference organized in Singapore by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in September 2002: 'Nation-building Histories: Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singaopre'."--Pref

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The book addresses questions such as, how should historians treat the earlier pasts of each country and the nationalism that guided the nation-building tasks? Where did political culture come in, especially when dealing with modern challenges of class, secularism and ethnicity? What part do external or regional pressures play when the nations are still being built? The authors have thought deeply about the issues of writing nation-building histories and have tried to put them not only in the perspective of Southeast Asian developments of the past five decades, but also the larger areas of historiography today.

Table of Contents

• Preliminary pages
• 1. Contemporary and National History: A Double Challenge by Wang Gungwu
• 2. Nation and State in Histories of Nation-Building, with Special Reference to Thailand by Craig J Reynolds
• 3. Rethinking History and ""Nation-Building"" in the Philippines by Caroline S Hau
• 4. Writing the History of Independent Indonesia by Anthony J S Reid
• 5. Ethnicity in the Making of Malaysia by Cheah Boon Kheng
• 6. Historians Writing Nations: Malaysian Contests by Anthony Milner
• 7. Writing Malaysia's Contemporary History by Lee Kam Hing
• 8. Forging Malaysia and Singapore: Colonialism, Decolonization and Nation-Building by Anthony Stockwell
• 9. Nation-Building and the Singapore Story: Some Issues in the Study of Contemporary Singapore History by Albert Lau
• 10. Nation and Heritage by Wang Gungwu
• Index.

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Details

• NCID: BA73339955
• ISBN:
  • 9812303170
  • 9812303200
• Country Code: si
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Singapore
• Pages/Volumes: vii, 288 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DS526.7
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Southeast Asia -- Politics and government -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Southeast Asia -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Southeast Asia -- Historiography -- Congresses
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA58898408