| Description |
xviii, 417 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. 'On the Ruins of Melaka Fort'. The momentum of the Malay world. 'A moral-forcing system'. The passing of the Somerset Maugham era. War and disorder. The generation of 1945 -- 2. The Malayan Spring. 'A new conception of empire'? The rehabilitation of social life. Politics of health and welfare. New Democracy and the '1946 towkay'. A new dawn fades -- 3. The Revolt on the Periphery. The political economy of disruption. Conservation and confrontation. The sickle and the crescent moon. The syndicalist challenge. A revolution reconsidered -- 4. Rural Society and Terror. The official mind of counter-insurgency. The inner politics of terror. The domestication of the Malayan Chinese. A new geography of the peninsula. 'A rule of benevolence' -- 5. House of Glass. The making of the modern Malaysian state. The colonial economy under duress. Labour and the new paternalism. The twilight of the colonial town. Civic life and the origins of a post-colonial bourgeoisie |
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6. The Advent of the 'Bumiputera'. The anatomy of poverty. Stagnation and diversification. Perceptions of development. 'Wake up and be active'. The experience of the Orang Asli -- 7. The Politics of Culture. The quest for the 'Malayan'. A revolution in communications. Popular cultures in transition. Sarong culture, yellow culture. 'Language is the soul of the nation' -- 8. Making Citizens. Experiments in democracy. The crisis of Malayan politics. Voices of resurgent Islam. The path to the summit. The soul of independence -- 9. The Colonial Inheritance. The end of empire and the making of Malaya. 'They do not understand'. Realising independence. The end of ethnicity? Authoritarianism and accountability |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-408) and index |
| SUBJECT |
Malaysia -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85080081
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| ISBN |
052159040X : |
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0521004659 paperback |
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