Screen LibraryDecolonisations Compared : Central America, Southeast Asia, the Caucasus /
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 contrast...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53649-1 |
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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 their ability to cooperate with one another are dependent on the acceptance of the frontiers established by the previous imperial powers. It moves from Central America, left in the early nineteenth c |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (XI, 135 pages): illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9783319536491 |
| Index Number: | JV61 |
| CLC: | D066 |
| Contents: | 1 Introduction -- 2 Central America -- 3 Southeast Asia -- 4 The Caucasus -- 5 Conclusion. |