Colonial Armies in Southeast Asia

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Contents......Page 9
List of Illustrations......Page 11
List of Maps......Page 12
List of Tables......Page 13
List of Contributors......Page 15
Preface......Page 18
Acknowledgements......Page 19
Abbreviations and Glossary......Page 20
Part I Background......Page 22
1. Imperial Systems of Power, Colonial Forces and the Making of Modern Southeast Asia......Page 23
2. Demography and Domination in Southeast Asia......Page 57
3. Ming Chinese Colonial Armies in Southeast Asia......Page 89
Part 2 Experimenting with Tools of Conquest and Domination......Page 120
4. Ethnicity and Martial Races: The Garde Indigene of Cambodia in the 1880s and 1890s......Page 121
5. Double-edged Swords of Conquest in Indochina: Tirailleurs Tonkinois, Chasseurs Annamites and Militias, 1883–1895......Page 140
6. The Mixed Company: Fighting Power and Ethnic Relations in the Dutch Colonial Army, 1890–1920......Page 167
Part 3 Loyalty and Revolt in the Era of Nationalism and War......Page 182
7. American Exceptionalism in Colonial Forces? The Philippine Scout Mutiny of 1924......Page 183
8. Colonial Forces in British Burma: A National Army Postponed......Page 206
Part 4 Decolonisation......Page 222
9. The Impact of the Japanese Occupation on Colonial and Anti-colonial Armies in Southeast Asia......Page 223
10. Imperialism and Decolonisation in Southeast Asia: Colonial Forces and British World Power......Page 248
Part 5 Postcolonial Analyses and Residues......Page 275
11. Colonial Militias in East Timor from the Portugese Period to Independence......Page 276
12. Colonial Forces as Postcolonial Memories: The Commemoration and Memory of the Malay Regiment in Modern Malaysia and Singapore......Page 307
Index......Page 331