1. Contemporary and National History: A Double Challenge / by Wang Gungwu -- 2. Nation and State in Histories of Nation-Building, with Special Reference to Thailand / by Craig J. Reynolds -- 3. Rethinking History and "Nation-Building" in the Philippines / by Caroline S. Hau -- 4. Writing the History of Independent Indonesia / by Anthony J. S. Reid -- 5. Ethnicity in the Making of Malaysia / by Cheah Boon Kheng -- 6. Historians Writing Nations: Malaysian Contests / by Anthony Milner -- 7. Writing Malaysia's Contemporary History / by Lee Kam Hing -- 8. Forging Malaysia and Singapore: Colonialism, Decolonization and Nation-Building / by Anthony Stockwell -- 9. Nation-Building and the Singapore Story: Some Issues in the Study of Contemporary Singapore History / by Albert Lau -- 10. Nation and Heritage / by Wang Gungwu
Summary
Addresses questions such as: how should historians treat the earlier pasts of each country and the nationalism that guided the nation- building task? Where did the political culture come in, especially when dealing with modern challenges of class, securalism and ethnicity?
Analysis
Politics & government (Southeast Asia)
Notes
"The essays in this volume are the product of a conference organised in Singapore ... in September 2002: "Nation-building Histories: Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore"."--Preface