Europe’s Asian Stake
Adaptation, Restoration and Destruction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23752115 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R F Holland, Robert Holland (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Pages | 73-112 |
| Publication date | 1985-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | European Decolonization 1918–1981 (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Macmillan Education UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-1-349-17773-8_3 |
| OpenAlex | W2493755526 |
| ISBN | 9781349177738 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
The pattern of colonial change in Asia in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War was profoundly confusing. The British were engaged in a frantic search for some political deal which would disengage them from India with the least all-round costs, while the French and the Dutch were intent on renewing and revamping sets of local alliances which would allow them to re-enter the Indonesian and Indo-Chinese fastnesses from which they had been summarily evicted by the Japanese. The British found in the end that the price of their departure from the South Asian subcontinent was a partition which created a newly delimited India and the novel state of Pakistan; the French and Dutch found that the restoration of their power in east Asia could be obtained only by force. In fact by the latter months of 1954 Europe’s political authority had been broken in all these theatres, although in the case of Indo-China France’s bitter post-war opponents, the Viet Minh, did not succeed to the legacy entire; it was the American presence which then became the hallmark of Saigon’s politics. Europe’s withdrawal from Asia marked a fundamental ‘break’ in the logic of modern empires. Those empires had only possessed a rationale as broadly based systems of power as long as they retained a stake in Asia.
Ancient history · China · Colonialism · Development economics · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Geography · Indian subcontinent · Indirect rule · Indonesian · Partition (number theory) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · State (computer science) · Vietnamese · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · History · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |