TY - BOOK AU - TARLING Nicholas TI - Imperialism in Southeast Asia: a fleeting, passing phase SN - 0415347092 (pbk) : PY - 2004/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - SOUTHEAST ASIA KW - HISTORY KW - COLONIALISM N2 - 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 ER -