Editor : Nicholas Tarling

ISBN: 0521663725
Cambridge University Press
2000 - Paperback - 384 Seiten

From World War II to the Present
Volume 4 covers the period from World War II to the present and examines the end of European colonial empires, the emergence of political structures of the independent states, economic and social change, religious change in contemporary Southeast Asia, Southeast Asia's role and identity in decolonization, and the ongoing weakening of links with the West.