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  • The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia: Volume 2, Part 2, From World War II to the Present

    Edited by Nicholas Tarling ...
    In these four volumes, published in paperback in 2000, twenty-two scholars of international reputation consider the whole of mainland and island Southeast Asia from Burma to Indonesia. Each volume has a new preface which points to the relationships with the other volumes. The prefaces also comment on some of the research into and thinking about the subject undertaken since the original ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Status and Security in Southeast Asian State Systems

    by Nicholas Tarling ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    Southeast Asia serves as an excellent case study to discuss major transformations in the relationship between states. This book looks at the changing nature of relationships between countries in Southeast Asia, as well as their relationships with other states in Asia and beyond.A diverse region in many areas, open to outside influence in many fields, but not without dynamics of its own, Southeast ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Maritime Security in East and Southeast Asia

    Political Challenges in Asian Waters

    Edited by Nicholas Tarling, Xin Chen ...
    This volume investigates the nature of threats facing, or perceived as facing, some of the key players involved in Asian maritime politics. The articles in this collection present case studies on Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand, Japan, China, and Southeast Asia as a whole and focus on domestic definitions of threats and conceptualisations of security. These studies map the differing ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Orientalism and the Operatic World

    by Nicholas Tarling ...
    Western opera is a globalized and globalizing phenomenon and affords us a unique opportunity for exploring the concept of “orientalism,” the subject of literary scholar Edward Said’s modern classic on the topic. Nicholas Tarling’s Orientalism and the Operatic World places opera in the context of its steady globalization over the past two centuries. In this important survey, Tarling first considers ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • Choral Masterpieces

    Major and Minor

    by Nicholas Tarling ...
    In Choral Masterpieces: Major and Minor, historian Nicholas Tarling surveys the landscape of choral works, some standard masterpieces that are commonly performed by choruses around the world, others deserving a second, closer look. As noted in the foreword by Uwe Grodd , music director of the Auckland Choral Society, this work “is a collection of essays about a number of outstanding works, ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • From Versailles to Pearl Harbor

    The Origins of the Second World War in Europe and Asia

    by Margaret Lamb, Nicholas Tarling ...
    In 1941, the European war became a world war. This book tackles that process in its economic, political and ideological dimensions. Margaret Lamb and Nicholas Tarling explore the significance of the Asian factor and the importance of East Asia in the making of the war in Europe and the transformation of the European war of 1939 into the world war of 1941. This Asian factor has often been neglected ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Southeast Asia and the Great Powers

    by Nicholas Tarling ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    The success of regionalism in Southeast Asia depends on the attitudes of the states within the region but also on the attitude of those outside it. This book is an erudite and stimulating study on the latter. Placing these states in a long term historical context Tarling brings out the way in which the rivalries of those powers within the region and outside it have affected the states within the ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Decolonisations Compared

    Central America, Southeast Asia, the Caucasus

    by Nicholas Tarling ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book offers an analysis of the decolonisation process across three different regions around the world: Central America, Southeast Asia and the Caucasus. It explores how the nature of previous imperial systems shaped the nation states that were created in their stead. By outlining these contrasting historical trajectories, this short study argues that the stability of these nation states and ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Neutrality in Southeast Asia

    Concepts and Contexts

    by Nicholas Tarling ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    This book analyses the notion of neutrality to the politics of the state in Southeast Asia. Distinguishing among neutrality, neutralism and neutralisation, it asks what relation do the concepts bear to the independence of states, and how do they relate to other forms of inter-state relations and to participation in international organizations.The author considers concepts of neutrality and the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Recalling Childhood

    by Elizabeth Arndt, Jake Dailey, George Dibley, Paul G. Halpern, B. A. Hussainmiya, Pradeep Kanthan, Ruth Malcolm, Shakila Abdul Maman, Ooi Keat Gin, Hajar Abdul Rahim, Kenelm Robert, Georg Schmid, Sigrid Schmid-Bortenschlager, Kobkua Suwannathat-pian, Lorraine Wheeler, Rupert Wheeler, Colin Mackerras, Wang Gungwu ...
    What can you remember of your childhood? This was the question put to a number of ‘seniors’ asked to start from as far back as they could get, and go as far as the onset of adolescence. Their answers are in this unusual book.Topics naturally include their physical self; their parents, siblings, grandparents, friends, playmates, teachers, classmates, pets; their manners, training, rewards and ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Intra-Regional Popular Cultural Flows

    Towards an East Asian Identity?

    Edited by Xin Chen, Nicholas Tarling ...
    This edited volume brings together scholars from eight countries to explore interactions of popular cultural flows, state politics, audiences’ receptions, and public debates in Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, Indonesia, Korea, Vietnam and China, and across the region as a whole. These investigations provide fresh conceptual and empirical insights into the study of the dynamic and complex interface of ... Read more

    $102.99 USD

  • Regionalism in Southeast Asia

    To foster the political will

    by Nicholas Tarling ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    Regionalism in Southeast Asia provides the reader with an historical analysis of Southeast Asia from the distinct perspective of regionalism. Southeast Asian history is usually written from a national point of view, which underplays the links between neighbouring states and nations and the effects of these bonds on the development of regionalism. This innovative book begins by defining the meaning ... Read more

    $68.99 USD