| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 114 pages) : maps |
| Series |
Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; 51 |
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Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia (2005) ; 51.
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| Contents |
Introduction : borders, globalisation and the state in historical context / Martin Gainsborough -- Unhealthy air of the mountains : kinh and ethnic minority rule on the Sino-Vietnamese frontier from the fifteenth to the twentieth century / Emmanuel Poisson -- Post-Taiping fallout : Nguyen-Qing collaboration in the pursuit of bandits on the border / Bradley C. Davis -- The struggle to control land grabbing : state formation on the Central Highlands frontier under the first Republic of Vietnam (1954-63) / Stan B-H Tan -- 'Community development' on the Sino-Burmese border : villagers, Oxfam and the Chinese state / Miwa Hirono -- The politics of 'opening up' : female traders on the borderlands of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Burma (Myanmar) / Kyoko Kusakabe -- Dreaming beyond borders : the Thai/Lao borderlands and the mobility of the marginal / Holly High -- Conclusion : are the Mekong frontiers sites of exception? / Andrew Walker |
| Summary |
Covering the main themes of globalization, state power and culture from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century, this book explores the changing nature, meaning and significance of the Greater Mekong Sub-region |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
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Boundaries
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
Mekong River Region -- Boundaries
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Mekong River Region -- Politics and government
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| Subject |
Mekong River Region
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gainsborough, Martin, 1966-
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| ISBN |
9780203934708 |
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0203934709 |
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