After the Empires : The Dissolution of Foreign Powers and the Creation of New States in East Asia
ISBN: 9781137345684
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Palgrave Macmillan UK
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Subjects: History;

The shift to the modern world in East Asia was accomplished in part via the experience of colonial rule in the late nineteenth century. Following imperial crisis in the 1930s and 1940s, independent nation states formed from which the political structure of East Asia is based today.

P.W. Preston is Professor Emeritus at the University of Birmingham, UK, and has taught comparative politics over many years at universities in Scotland, Germany, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand and China.


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