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Summary:

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.

Table of Contents:

• 1.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.

Author/Creator:

Preston, P. W. (Peter Wallace), 1949- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

After the empires: the creation of novel political-cultural projects in East Asia [by Preston, P.W.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: After the empires [by Preston, P.W.] (ISBN 9781137345677)

Subjects:

East Asia — Politics and government — 20th century

East Asia — History — Autonomy and independence movements

Imperialism — History — 20th century

Anti-imperialist movements — East Asia — History — 20th century

Nationalism — East Asia — History — 20th century

Social change — East Asia — History — 20th century

General Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 09, 2015).

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

DS518.1 .P74 2014eb

ISBNs:

9781137345684 (electronic bk.)
1137345683 (electronic bk.)

OCLC Numbers:

894543844

Other Control Numbers:

EBC1780003 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp11699548