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After the Empires

The Dissolution of Foreign Powers and the Creation of New States in East Asia

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. State-Empire Systems: The Players

    • P. W. Preston
    Pages 20-41
  3. State-Empire Systems: The Logics

    • P. W. Preston
    Pages 42-64
  4. State-Empire Systems: Fracture Lines

    • P. W. Preston
    Pages 65-85
  5. State-Empire Dissolution

    • P. W. Preston
    Pages 116-134
  6. Afterword

    • P. W. Preston
    Pages 223-227
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 228-272

About this book

The shift to the modern world in East Asia was accomplished in part via the experience of colonial rule in the late nineteenth century. Following imperial crisis in the 1930s and 1940s, independent nation states formed from which the political structure of East Asia is based today.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham, UK

    P. W. Preston

About the author

P.W. Preston is Professor Emeritus at the University of Birmingham, UK, and has taught comparative politics over many years at universities in Scotland, Germany, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand and China.

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