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Traditions, Colonialisms and Revolutions: Southeast Asian Histories - HIST2081
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Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
 
 
School:  School of History and Philosophy
 
 
Course Outline: http://hist-phil.arts.unsw.edu.au/currentstudents/ugoutlines.html
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: 18 units of credit
 
 
Fee Band: 1 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

Explores Southeast Asian monarchies, European colonialism, rebellion and revolution. Nationalist leaders such as Jose Rizal of the Philippines, Sukarno of Indonesia and Ho Chi Minh of Vietnam tried to inspire revolution by inventing a golden past and modern identity. We examine peasant rebellion and millenarian cults including the role of gangsters, mercenaries and prophets in revolution and also look at ways of representing the past and its use of collective versus individual memory.

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