TARLING Nicholas <br/><br/>
Imperialism in Southeast Asia :  a fleeting, passing phase / 
Nicholas Tarling 
 - London :  Routledge ,  2004 
 - 313 p. 
<br/><br/> History of western imperial ventures in Southeast Asia identifying common themes as well as differences. The main political developments are taken to have occurred in the period 1870-1914, while the huge upheaval of the Second World War effectively marks the beginning of the end for colonialism and the rise of independent states, a process that the British at least considered inevitable. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0415347092 (pbk) :  22.00 GBP 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>SOUTHEAST ASIA--HISTORY<br/>SOUTHEAST ASIA--COLONIALISM