Monarchies and Decolonisation in Asia (eBook)

Robert Aldrich is Professor of European History at the University of Sydney Cindy McCreery is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Sydney

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
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