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ISBN:
9780511585517
Content:
Modern Malaya was born in a period of war, insurrection, and monumental social upheaval. Tim Harper's acclaimed 1999 study examines the achievement of independence in 1957, not primarily through the struggle between Imperial Britain and nationalist elites, but through the internal struggles that late colonial rule fostered at all levels of Malayan society. It contains research on the impact of the Second World War in Malaya, the origins and course of the Communist Emergency, and urbanisation and popular culture, and charts the responses of Malaya's communities to more intrusive forms of government and to rapid social change. Dr Harper emphasises the various conflicting visions of independence, and suggests that although the experiments of late colonialism were frustrated, they left an enduring legacy for the politics of independent Malaya. This book sheds light on the dynamics of nationalism, ethnicity, and state-building in modern Southeast Asia
Content:
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
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521590402
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521004657
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521590402
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511585517
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