Nicholas Tarling
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Description
Nicholas Tarling was born in 1931. He earned his PhD at Cambridge. In 1957 he began teaching European and Asian history at the University of Queensland. In 1965 he became an associate professor of history at the University of Auckland New Zealand, going on to become a full professor in 1968. He retired from academia in 1996. He has published more than 30 books, mostly on the topic of Asian history, but also about opera and university policy.
Books
Southeast Asia
International Students in New Zealand
Today, international students are a noticeable feature of universities and most other educational institutions in New Zealand and elsewhere. This phenomenon is one aspect of the movements of people and of the changes in educational demand and the aspirations of students that have been stimulated by globalization. The New Zealand Asia Institute, based at the University of Auckland, has set out to research and record New Zealand's experience of international students. This book is the result. -- from (June 19, 2014).
Nationalism in Southeast Asia
"Nationalism in Southeast Asia seeks a definition of nationalism through examining its role in the history of Southeast Asia, a region rarely included in general books on the topic. By developing such a definition and testing it out, Nicholas Tarling hopes at the same time to make a contribution to Southeast Asian historiography and to limit its 'ghettoisation'." "The state-building of the colonial phase is seen as a directed process with unexpected outcomes: it helped to create and to provoke opposition that took the form of 'nationalist' movements. Tarling goes on to consider the role of nationalism in the 'nation-building' of the postcolonial phase, and its relationship both with the democratic aspirations associated with the winning of independence and with the authoritarianism of the closing decades of the twentieth century." "Finally, Tarling offers comment on the 'new nationalisms' that authoritarianism has helped to provoke, and their prospects, as well as those of the nation-states, in the current phase of globalisation."--Jacket.
A sudden rampage
This book describes the origins, the methods and the results of imperial Japan's occupation of Southeast Asia during the Second World War.
From Versailles to Pearl Harbor
"In 1941 the European war became a world war. This book explores that process in its economic, political and ideological dimensions. Margaret Lamb and Nicholas Tarling examine the significance of the Asian factor and the importance of East Asia in the making of the war in Europe and the transformation of the European war of 1939 into the world war of 1941."--BOOK JACKET.