Monarchies and decolonisation in Asia / [edited by] Robert Aldrich and Cindy McCreery.
Monarchies and Decolonisation provides new perspectives on the role of European colonial monarchies, and the monarchies of Asia, in the late colonial period, during the process of decolonization, and in its aftermath. With case studies drawn from former colonies in South and Southeast Asia, as well...
| Uniform Title: | Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)
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| Language: | English |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2020.
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| Series: | Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Monarchies, decolonisation and post-colonial Asia / Cindy McCreery
- 2. All the king's men: regal ministers of eclipsed empires in India / Priya Naik
- 3. Decolonised rulers: rajas, maharajas and others in post-colonial India / 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 ẁorld's most ideal state': Sarawak and the Brooke 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 s̀ymbol emperor': decolonisation and the Japanese emperor after 1945 / Elise K. Tipton
- 15. Dramatising Siamese independence: Thai post-colonial perspectives on kingship / Irene Stengs.