Planting empire, cultivating subjects British Malaya, 1786-1941
Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects examines the stories of ordinary people to explore the internal workings of colonial rule. Chinese, Indians, and Malays learned about being British through the plantations, towns, schools, and newspapers of a modernizing colony. Yet they got mixed messages from...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2017
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The birth of plantation colonialism
- Body politics in a plural society
- New towns on the Malayan frontier
- Urban civil society
- Rubber reconstructs Malaya
- Cosmopolitan modernity
- Managing Malayan towns
- Multiple allegiances in a cosmopolitan colony
- Epilogue: representing empire, remembering colonial rule