British Malaya
Author: Sir Frank Athelstane Swettenham
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Published: 1906
Total Pages: 468
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Sir Frank Athelstane Swettenham
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Published: 1906
Total Pages: 468
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Margaret Shennan
Publisher: Monsoon Books
Published: 2015-11-01
Total Pages: 540
ISBN-13: 9814625329
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Nicholas Belfield Dennys
Publisher:
Published: 1894
Total Pages: 446
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Sir Frank Athelstane Swettenham
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Published: 1907
Total Pages: 486
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Arunima Datta
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-09-30
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1108837387
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Critically examines the agency and history of long-silenced coolie women and their role in colonial economy and transnational movements.
Author: Lynn Hollen Lees
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-12-21
Total Pages: 379
ISBN-13: 1107038405
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is an innovative study of how British Colonial rule and society in Malayan towns and plantations transformed immigrants into British subjects.
Author: Frank Sir Swettenham
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-12-14
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 042985952X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 1948, this volume’s third edition emerged contemporaneously with the transition from the Malayan Union to the Federation of Malaya, an area covering the Malay Peninsula and modern Singapore. The volume recounts the experiences of the first British residents of Malaya. Its object was to explain the circumstances and evolution of the British administration in Malaya, along with a history of the region.
Author: Christopher Hale
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2013-10-01
Total Pages: 683
ISBN-13: 0750951818
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Malayan Emergency (1948–60) was the longest war waged by British and Commonwealth forces in the twentieth century. Fought against communist guerrillas in the jungles of Malaya, this undeclared 'war without a name' had a powerful and covert influence on American strategy in Vietnam. Many military historians still consider the Emergency an exemplary, even inspiring, counterinsurgency conflict. Massacre in Malaya draws on recently released files from British archives, as well as eyewitness accounts from both the government forces and communist fighters, to challenge this view. It focuses on the notorious 'Batang Kali Massacre' – known as 'Britain's My Lai' – that took place in December, 1948, and reveals that British tactics in Malaya were more ruthless than many historians concede. Counterinsurgency in Malaya, as in Kenya during the same period, depended on massive resettlement programmes and ethnic cleansing, indiscriminate aerial bombing and ruthless exploitation of aboriginal peoples, the Orang Asli. The Emergency was a discriminatory war. In Malaya, the British built a brutal and pervasive security state – and bequeathed it to modern Malaysia. The 'Malayan Emergency' was a bitterly fought war that still haunts the present.
Author: John G. Butcher
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 340
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ching Fatt Yong
Publisher: NUS Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9789971691370
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Kuomintang (KMT)--the first legalized political party and movement in modern Malaysian and Singaporean history--is studied against the background of British colonial rule, the changing political circumstances and fortunes in China, and the rising and waning of Malayan Chinese nationalism from 1894. While it highlights the development of the Malayan KMT Movement in terms of leadership, organization, and ideology, it also analyzes changing British colonial policy and management techniques toward the Movement.