Nation Building Five Southeast Asian Histories

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...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Gungwu, Wang
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Singapore ISEAS Publishing [2005]
Zusammenfassung:
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
Umfang:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9789812305503
DOI:
10.1355/9789812305503
Schlagworte:
Nation-building / Southeast Asia
HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia
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