| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- PART ONE: 1901-42 -- 1. Colonial Life Between the Wars -- 2. Times of Opportunity -- PART TWO: 1942-45 -- 3. Political Awakening Amid Global Wars -- 4. Finding Refuge in India -- PART THREE: 1945-59 -- 5. Politics in a Messy New World -- 6. Moving Towards Merdeka -- Epilogue: After 1959 -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author |
| Summary |
To understand how independence was gained for a politically complex country such as Malaysia, and how its structure took form requires familiarity with the key players involved. More importantly, only by locating these actors within the changing socio-political context in which they specifically lived does their influence both before and after the birth of the country become clear. Having written potent biographies about Malaysian and Singapore leaders such as Ismail Abdul Rahman, the Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia who died in 1973, Goh Keng Swee, the economic architect and one of the found |
| Notes |
"ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute." |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 02, 2020) |
| Subject |
Lee, Hau-Shik
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Chinese -- Malaysia -- Biography
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Businessmen -- Malaysia -- Biography
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Statesmen -- Malaysia -- Biography
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Politicians -- Malaysia -- Biography
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Businessmen
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Chinese
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Politicians
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Statesmen
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| SUBJECT |
Malaya -- History -- 20th century
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| Subject |
Malaya
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Malaysia
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789814881456 |
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9814881457 |
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