Author: John G. Butcher
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The British in Malaya, 1880-1941
Author: John G. Butcher
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Fleeting Agencies
Author: Arunima Datta
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108837387
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Critically examines the agency and history of long-silenced coolie women and their role in colonial economy and transnational movements.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108837387
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Critically examines the agency and history of long-silenced coolie women and their role in colonial economy and transnational movements.
A social history of the British in Malaya
Author: John G. Butcher
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
A Social History of the British in Malaya, 1880 - 1941 ; with Special References to the Federated Malay States
Author: John Glover Butcher
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
A Social History of the British in Malaya, 1880-1941
Author: John Glover Butcher
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
British Malaya
Author: Sir Frank Athelstane Swettenham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Out in the Midday Sun
Author: Margaret Shennan
Publisher: Monsoon Books
ISBN: 9814625329
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
The story of British Malaya and Singapore, from the days of Victorian pioneers to the denouement of independence, is a momentous episode in Britain’s colonial past. Through memoirs, letters and interviews, Margaret Shennan chronicles its halcyon years, the two World Wars, economic depression and diaspora, revealing the attitudes of the diverse quixotic characters of this now quite vanished world. The British came as fortune-seekers to exploit Asian trade shipped through Penang and Singapore. They found a mature Asian culture in a land of palm-fringed shores and primeval jungle. Like modern Romans, they built townships, defences, communications and hill stations, they spurred a rivalry between the fledgling commercial centres of Singapore, Penang and Kuala Lumpur, and they superimposed their law and established an idiosyncratic political system. They also developed the tin and rubber of the Malay States, encouraging Chinese and Indian immigrants by their open-door policy. The outcome was a vibrant multi-racial society – the most cosmopolitan in the East.
Publisher: Monsoon Books
ISBN: 9814625329
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
The story of British Malaya and Singapore, from the days of Victorian pioneers to the denouement of independence, is a momentous episode in Britain’s colonial past. Through memoirs, letters and interviews, Margaret Shennan chronicles its halcyon years, the two World Wars, economic depression and diaspora, revealing the attitudes of the diverse quixotic characters of this now quite vanished world. The British came as fortune-seekers to exploit Asian trade shipped through Penang and Singapore. They found a mature Asian culture in a land of palm-fringed shores and primeval jungle. Like modern Romans, they built townships, defences, communications and hill stations, they spurred a rivalry between the fledgling commercial centres of Singapore, Penang and Kuala Lumpur, and they superimposed their law and established an idiosyncratic political system. They also developed the tin and rubber of the Malay States, encouraging Chinese and Indian immigrants by their open-door policy. The outcome was a vibrant multi-racial society – the most cosmopolitan in the East.
British Malaya
Author: Sir Frank Athelstane Swettenham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federated Malay States
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federated Malay States
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
The Japanese Occupation of Malaya
Author: Paul H. Kratoska
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824818890
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Japan attacked British-ruled Malaya on 8 December 1941 as part of a wave of military actions that toppled the British, Dutch and American colonial regimes in Southeast Asia. Within seventy days, the conquest of Malaya was complete, and British forces in Singapore surrendered on 15 February 1942. The three and a half years of Japanese rule are generally considered to mark a profound transition in the history of the Malay peninsula, but little is known about this period. This book uses the limited administrative papers that survived in Malaya, oral sources, and accounts written by Japanese officers involved in the Malayan campaign to flesh out the story.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824818890
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Japan attacked British-ruled Malaya on 8 December 1941 as part of a wave of military actions that toppled the British, Dutch and American colonial regimes in Southeast Asia. Within seventy days, the conquest of Malaya was complete, and British forces in Singapore surrendered on 15 February 1942. The three and a half years of Japanese rule are generally considered to mark a profound transition in the history of the Malay peninsula, but little is known about this period. This book uses the limited administrative papers that survived in Malaya, oral sources, and accounts written by Japanese officers involved in the Malayan campaign to flesh out the story.
The End of Empire and the Making of Malaya
Author: T. N. Harper
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521590402
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
This is the first general social and political history of Malaya. Focusing on the years 1945 to 1957, the last years of British rule and the achievement of independence, it embraces a wealth of social, economic and cultural, as well as political themes. It contains new research on the impact of the Second World War in Malaya, the origins and course of the Communist Emergency, and the response of Malaya's various ethnic communities to nationalism and social change. A concluding chapter takes these themes forward into the 1990s to shed new light on the emergence of this important Southeast Asian nation.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521590402
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
This is the first general social and political history of Malaya. Focusing on the years 1945 to 1957, the last years of British rule and the achievement of independence, it embraces a wealth of social, economic and cultural, as well as political themes. It contains new research on the impact of the Second World War in Malaya, the origins and course of the Communist Emergency, and the response of Malaya's various ethnic communities to nationalism and social change. A concluding chapter takes these themes forward into the 1990s to shed new light on the emergence of this important Southeast Asian nation.