World War One in Southeast Asia

World War One in Southeast Asia

Colonialism and Anticolonialism in an Era of Global Conflict

Streets-Salter, Heather (Northeastern University, Boston)

Cambridge University Press






15 a 20 dias

Ranging across British Malaya, the Dutch East Indies, and French Indochina, World War One in Southeast Asia extends our understanding of the conflict as a truly global phenomenon. It reveals how the war shaped the region's political, economic, and social development both during 1914-18 and in the war's aftermath.
Introduction; 1. The Singapore Mutiny of 1915: global origins in a global war; 2. The defeat of the Singapore Mutiny: regional expression of global alliances; 3. Germans, Indians, and the war in the Dutch East Indies; 4. The SS Maverick and the unraveling of a global conspiracy; 5. Siam and the anti-Allied conspiracies; 6. China, Germany, and the Viet Nam Restoration Association.