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1. Post-War Borneo, 1945-1950

   Nationalism, Empire and State-Building

   By Ooi Keat Gin

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   This book examines Borneo, both British Borneo – Brunei, Sarawak and North Borneo – and Dutch Borneo in the period 1945-1950. Borneo then was at the crossroads. Following the Japanese Occupation, the likely future status of the various Bornean territories was not at all clear, and the book...

   Published May 8th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Japanese Occupation of Borneo, 1941-45

   By Ooi Keat Gin

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   The Japanese occupation of both British Borneo – Brunei, Sarawak and North Borneo – and Dutch Borneo in 1941 to 1945 is a much understudied subject. Of particular interest is the occupation of Dutch Borneo, governed by the Imperial Japanese Navy that had long-term plans for ‘permanent possession’....

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Works of Nicholas Tarling on Southeast Asia

   Edited by Keat Gin Ooi

   The collection’s editor writes: Southeast Asian history and historiography would be greatly handicapped if the writings of Nicholas Tarling were removed from the increasingly expanding literature. The reading list has increased several folds since the early 1950s when Southeast Asian history was...

   Published August 7th 2012 by Routledge