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  • 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

    $70.99 CAD

  • 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

    $97.99 CAD

  • 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

    $84.99 CAD

  • Imperialism in Southeast Asia

    by Nicholas Tarling ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations
    Imperialism in Southeast Asia examines its subject against a backdrop of those countries that could at a given time be called imperialist: Britain, France, Spain, the Netherlands and the US. Examining the imperialist phenomenon from this wide-ranging perspective reveals imperialism as driven by rivalry; it also facilitates comparison: imperialism has elements in common, yet differs according to ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • 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

    $88.99 CAD

  • 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

    $142.99 CAD

  • 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

    $97.99 CAD

  • Nationalism in Southeast Asia

    If the People Are with Us

    by Nicholas Tarling ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    Nationalism in Southeast Asia seeks a definition of nationalism through examining its role in the history of southeast Asia, a region rarely included in general books on the topic. By developing such a definition and testing it out, Tarling hopes at the same time to make a contribution to southeast Asian historiography and to limit its 'ghettoization'.Tarling considers the role of nationalism in ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • 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

    $97.99 CAD

  • 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

    $47.99 CAD

  • 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

    $128.99 CAD

  • Corruption and Good Governance in Asia

    Edited by Nicholas Tarling ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    Bringing together contributions on the nature of corruption in East and Southeast Asia, this edited volume examines the means of limiting and ultimately eliminating corruption at a national and international level. Taking a country by country approach the text explores:the concept of corruption, now and in the pastrecent experiences of Asian countries at the macro- and micro-levelspractical local ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD