ISBN:
9781137345677
Language:
English
Pages:
XI, 272 S.
DDC:
303.409509/04
Keywords:
Imperialism History 20th century
;
Anti-imperialist movements History 20th century
;
Nationalism History 20th century
;
Social change History 20th century
;
East Asia Politics and government 20th century
;
East Asia History Autonomy and independence movements
;
Ostasien
;
Südostasien
;
Kolonialismus
;
Nationalismus
;
Großmacht
;
Nationalstaat
;
Politische Krise
;
Politischer Wandel
;
Geschichte 1900-2008
Abstract:
"The shift to the modern world in East Asia was accomplished in part via the experience of colonial rule as Europeans, Americans and Japanese in the late nineteenth century constructed elaborate colonial empires throughout the region. Local reactions included collaboration, resistance and learning - and the latter fed into locally made nationalisms that fuelled popular revolts against foreign rule. When the system went into crisis with numerous wars during the 1930s and 1940s, local nationalists took their chance and lodged claims to independence. As the fighting subsided it became clear that empires were no longer tenable, and independent nation states began to be constructed. Today they form the underlying political structure of the burgeoning region of East Asia"--
Abstract:
"The shift to the modern world in East Asia was accomplished in part via the experience of colonial rule as Europeans, Americans and Japanese in the late nineteenth century constructed elaborate colonial empires throughout the region. Local reactions included collaboration, resistance and learning--and the latter fed into locally made nationalisms that fuelled popular revolts against foreign rule. When the system went into crisis with numerous wars during the 1930s and 1940s, local nationalists took their chance and lodged claims to independence. As the fighting subsided it became clear that empires were no longer tenable, and independent nation states began to be constructed. Today they form the underlying political structure of the burgeoning region of East Asia"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Prologue1. State-Empires and the Shift to the Modern World -- 2. State-Empire Systems : The Players -- 3. State-Empire Systems : The Logics -- 4. State-Empire Systems : The Fracture Lines -- 5. General Crisis : System Failure and Collapse -- 6. State-Empire Dissolution -- 7. After the State-Empires : Territories, States, Nations and Development -- 8. Powerful Regions and the Surprising Costs of Success -- Afterword.
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