دانلود کتاب Monarchies and decolonisation in Asia (Studies in Imperialism, 188)

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Front matter\nContents\nList of figures\nNotes on contributors\nAcknowledgements\nMonarchies, decolonisation and post-colonial Asia\nAll the king’s men: regal ministers of eclipsed empires in India\nDecolonised rulers: rajas, maharajas and others in post-colonial India\nThe Himalayan kingdoms, British colonialism and indigenous monarchs after the end of empire\nConflict and betrayal: negotiations at the end of British rule in the Shan States of Burma (Myanmar)\nMalaysia’s multi-monarchy: surviving colonisation and decolonisation\nCelebrating the ‘world’s most ideal state’: Sarawak and the Brooke dynasty’s centenary of 1941\nRefashioning the monarchy in Brunei: Sultan Omar Ali and the quest for royal absolutism\nColonial monarchy and decolonisation in the French Empire: Bao Dai, Norodom Sihanouk and Mohammed V\nLoyalism and anti-communism in the making of the modern monarchy in post-colonial Laos\nIndonesia: sultans and the state\nDefending the Sultanate’s territory: Yogyakarta during the Indonesian decolonisation, 1942–50\nThe uses of monarchy in late-colonial Hong Kong, 1967–97\nFrom absolute monarch to ‘symbol emperor’: decolonisationand the Japanese emperor after 1945\nDramatising Siamese independence: Thai post-colonial perspectives on kingship\nIndex