Colonial armies in Southeast Asia / edited by Karl Hack and Tobias Rettig.

First published 2009 by Routledge.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Imperial systems of power, colonial forces, and the making of modern Southeast Asia / Karl Hack with Tobias Rettig -- Demography and domination in Southeast Asia / Karl Hack and Tobias Rettig -- Ming Chinese colonial armies in Southeast Asia / Geoff Wade -- Ethnicity and martial races : the Garde indigène of Cambodia in the 1880s to 1890s / Sarah Womack -- Double-edged swords of conquest in Indochina : Tirailleurs Tonkinois, Chasseurs annamites, and militias, 1883-1895 / Henri Eckert -- The mixed company : fighting power and ethnic relations in the Dutch Colonial Army, 1890-1920 / Gerke Teitler -- American exceptionalism in Colonial forces? : the Philippine Scout Mutiny of 1924 / Richard Meixsel -- Colonial forces in British Burma : a national army postponed / Robert H. Taylor -- The impact of the Japanese occupation on colonial and anti-colonial armies in Southeast Asia / Abu Talib Ahmad -- Imperialism and decolonisation in Southeast Asia : colonial forces and British world power / Karl Hack -- Colonial militias in East Timor from the Portuguese period to Independence / Geoffrey Robinson -- Colonial forces and postcolonial memories : the commemoration and memory of the Malay Regiment in modern Malaysia and Singapore / Kevin Blackburn.