Monarchies and decolonisation in Asia / edited by Robert Aldrich and Cindy McCreery.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aldrich, Robert, 1954- editor.

McCreery, Cindy, 1968- editor.

Series:

Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)

Studies in Imperialism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postcolonialism--Asia.

Postcolonialism.

Monarchy--Asia.

Monarchy.

Kings and rulers--Asia.

Kings and rulers.

Decolonization--Asia--History--20th century.

Decolonization.

Europe--Colonies--Asia--History.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : digital file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2020.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

With original case studies of a more than a dozen countries, this book offers new perspectives on how both European monarchs who reigned over Asian colonies and Asian royal houses adapted to decolonisation.

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

Notes:

Available through ManchesterHive.

MUP 2020 titles.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher's data.

ISBN:

9781526171733

1526171732

9781526142702

1526142708

OCLC:

1164785934