Books by Nicholas Tarling

This book defines nationalism by examining its role in the history of Southeast Asia. By developing and testing the definition, it contributes to Southeast Asian historiography and hopes to limit its ghettoisation.

Southeast Asia has, on the basis of the nation state, secured both a large measure of interstate peace and cooperation and a degree of autonomy from great powers outside the region. ASEAN both represents that position and promotes it. But it also depends on the attitude of the great powers.

In 1941, the European war became a world war. Margaret Lamb and Nicholas Tarling explore the significance of the Asian factor and the importance of East Asia in the making of the war in Europe and the transformation of the European war of 1939 into the world war of 1941.