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World War One in Southeast Asia: Colonialism and Anticolonialism in an Era of Global Conflict
Heather Streets-Salter
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Description for World War One in Southeast Asia: Colonialism and Anticolonialism in an Era of Global Conflict
hardcover. An original study of the First World War's impact in Southeast Asia, extending our understanding of the conflict as a global phenomenon. Num Pages: 320 pages, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FM; 3JJF; HBJF; HBLW; HBWN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152. .
Although not a major player during the course of the First World War, Southeast Asia was in fact altered by the war in multiple and profound ways. Ranging across British Malaya, the Dutch East Indies, and French Indochina, Heather Streets-Salter reveals how the war shaped the region's political, economic, and social development both during 1914-18 and in the war's aftermath. She shows how the region's strategic location between North America and India made it a convenient way-station for expatriate Indian revolutionaries who hoped to smuggle arms and people into India and thus to overthrow British rule, whilst German consuls and ... Read more
Although not a major player during the course of the First World War, Southeast Asia was in fact altered by the war in multiple and profound ways. Ranging across British Malaya, the Dutch East Indies, and French Indochina, Heather Streets-Salter reveals how the war shaped the region's political, economic, and social development both during 1914-18 and in the war's aftermath. She shows how the region's strategic location between North America and India made it a convenient way-station for expatriate Indian revolutionaries who hoped to smuggle arms and people into India and thus to overthrow British rule, whilst German consuls and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
246
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107135192
SKU
V9781107135192
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Ref
99-20
About Heather Streets-Salter
Heather Streets-Salter is Department Chair and Director of World History Programs at Northeastern University, Boston. Publications include Martial Races: The Military, Martial Races, and Masculinity in British Imperial Culture, 1857-1914 (2010), Traditions and Encounters: A Brief Global History (with Jerry Bentley and Herb Ziegler, 2013), and Empires and Colonies in the Modern World (with Trevor Getz, 2015).
Reviews for World War One in Southeast Asia: Colonialism and Anticolonialism in an Era of Global Conflict
'Anyone who is interested in the global history of the war and empire should read it, especially since we are now commemorating the war's centenary legacy.' Xu Guoqi, H-Diplo '... an important addition to preexisting scholarship. Besides contributing to a growing body of works examining the global dimension of the Great War, it also contributes to an emerging body of ... Read more