Robert Aldrich is Professor of European History at the University of Sydney
Cindy McCreery is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Sydney

1 Monarchies, decolonisation and post-colonial Asia - Robert Aldrich and Cindy McCreery
2 All the king's men: regal ministers of eclipsed empires - Priya Naik
3 Decolonised rulers: rajas, maharajas and others in post-colonial times - Jim Masselos
4 The Himalayan kingdoms, British colonialism and indigenous monarchs after the end of empire - Robert Aldrich
5 Conflict and betrayal: negotiations at the end of British rule in the Shan States of Burma (Myanmar) - Susan Conway
6 Malaysia's multi-monarchy: surviving colonisation and decolonisation - Anthony Milner
7 Celebrating the 'world's most ideal state': Sarawak and the Brook dynasty's centenary of 1941 - Donna Brunero
8 Refashioning the monarchy in Brunei: Sultan Omar Ali and the quest for royal absolutism - Naimah S. Talib
9 Colonial monarchy and decolonisation in the French Empire: Bao Dai, Norodom Sihanouk and Mohammed V - Christopher Goscha
10 Loyalism and anti-communism in the making of the modern monarchy in post-colonial Laos - Ryan Wolfson-Ford
11 Indonesia: sultans and the state - Jean Gelman Taylor
12 Defending the sultanate's territory: Yogyakarta during the Indonesian decolonisation, 1942-50 - Bayu Dardias Kurniadi
13 The uses of monarchy in late-colonial Hong Kong, 1967-97 - Mark Hampton
14 From absolute monarch to 'symbol emperor': decolonisation and the Japanese emperor after 1945 - Elise K. Tipton
15 Dramatising Siamese independence: Thai post-colonial perspectives on kingship - Irene Stengs
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