The End of Empire and the Making of Malaya / Edition 1

by T. N. Harper

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521004657
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	04/09/2001
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	436
Product dimensions:	6.06(w) x 8.98(h) x 1.26(d)

Table of Contents

List of tables; Preface; List of abbreviations; Glossary of non-English terms; Introduction; 1. 'On the ruins of Melaka fort'; 2. The Malayan spring; 3. The revolt on the periphery; 4. Rural society and terror; 5. House of glass; 6. The advent of the 'Bumiputera'; 7. The politics of culture; 8. Making citizens; 9. The colonial inheritance; Bibliography; Index.

Editorial Reviews

"...a comprehensive study, which opens new perspectives on how far pressures and initiatives in a divided society can generate change or conflict." TLS

"That Dr. Harper's is the most comprehensive and thought-provoking study to date of the subject announced in its title, a fit successor to Bill Roff's pioneering 1967 volume, few will doubt." Journal of Asian History

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