Monarchies and decolonisation in Asia, edited by Robert Aldrich and Cindy McCreery
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Monarchies and decolonisation in Asia, edited by Robert Aldrich and Cindy McCreery
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Index
index present
Intended audience
Students and lecturers in colonial/imperial history and modern Asian history, as well as those interested in the history of modern monarchy
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Monarchies and decolonisation in Asia
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electronic resource
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
edited by Robert Aldrich and Cindy McCreery
Series statement
Studies in ImperialismMUP - Manchester Studies in Imperialism
Table Of Contents
1. Monarchies, decolonisation and post-colonial Asia / Robert Aldrich and Cindy McCreery -- 2. All the king's men: regal ministers of eclipsed empires / Priya Naik -- 3. Decolonised rulers: rajas, maharajas and others in post-colonial times / 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 'world's most ideal state': Sarawak and the Brook 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 'symbol emperor': decolonisation and the Japanese emperor after 1945 - Elise K. Tipton -- 15. Dramatising Siamese independence: Thai post-colonial perspectives on kingship - Irene Stengs -- Index
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