British Malaya
Title | British Malaya PDF eBook |
Author | Sir Frank Athelstane Swettenham |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 468 |
Release | 1906 |
Genre | Federated Malay States |
ISBN |
Out in the Midday Sun
Title | Out in the Midday Sun PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Shennan |
Publisher | Monsoon Books |
Total Pages | 540 |
Release | 2015-11-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9814625329 |
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.
A Descriptive Dictionary of British Malaya
Title | A Descriptive Dictionary of British Malaya PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas Belfield Dennys |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 446 |
Release | 1894 |
Genre | Ethnology |
ISBN |
Massacre in Malaya
Title | Massacre in Malaya PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Hale |
Publisher | The History Press |
Total Pages | 683 |
Release | 2013-10-01 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 0750951818 |
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.
British Malaya
Title | British Malaya PDF eBook |
Author | Sir Frank Athelstane Swettenham |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 486 |
Release | 1907 |
Genre | British |
ISBN |
Fleeting Agencies
Title | Fleeting Agencies PDF eBook |
Author | Arunima Datta |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 259 |
Release | 2021-09-30 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1108837387 |
Critically examines the agency and history of long-silenced coolie women and their role in colonial economy and transnational movements.
Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects
Title | Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects PDF eBook |
Author | Lynn Hollen Lees |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 379 |
Release | 2017-12-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107038405 |
This is an innovative study of how British Colonial rule and society in Malayan towns and plantations transformed immigrants into British subjects.