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
Summary
This is an innovative study of how British Colonial rule and society in Malayan towns and plantations transformed immigrants into British subjects