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Planting empire, cultivating subjects : British Malaya, 1786-1941
- Title
- Planting empire, cultivating subjects : British Malaya, 1786-1941 / Lynn Hollen Lees, University of Pennsylvania.
- Author
- Lees, Lynn Hollen
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- ©2017
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- Description
- xvii, 359 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- 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 the harsh, racial hierarchies of sugar and rubber estates and cosmopolitan urban societies. Empire meant mobility, fluidity, and hybridity, as well as the enactment of racial privilege and rigid ethnic differences. Using sources ranging from administrative files, court transcripts and oral interviews to periodicals and material culture, Professor Lees explores the nature and development of colonial governance, and the ways in which Malayan residents experienced British rule in towns and plantations. This is an innovative study demonstrating how empire brought with it both oppression and economic opportunity, shedding new light on the shifting nature of colonial subjecthood and identity, as well as the memory and afterlife of empire.
- Subjects
- Plantations
- Agriculture and politics
- Cosmopolitanism
- Malaya
- Imperialism > Social aspects
- Plantations > Malaysia > Malaya > History
- Kolonialismus
- Malaysia
- Agriculture and politics > Malaysia > Malaya > History
- 1867-1942
- Cosmopolitanism > Malaysia > Malaya > History
- Malaya > History > British rule, 1867-1942
- History
- Imperialism > Social aspects > History
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 332-346) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Part I. The nineteenth century. The birth of plantation colonialism in Malaya -- Body politics in a plural society -- New towns on the Malayan frontier -- Urban civil society -- Part II. The twentieth century. Rubber reconstructs Malaya -- Cosmopolitan modernity -- Managing Malayan towns -- Multiple allegiances in a cosmopolitan colony -- Epilogue : representing empire, remembering colonial rule.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-9023
- ISBN
- 9781107038400
- 1107038405
- LCCN
- 2017018418
- 40027982117
- OCLC
- 992798562
- Author
- Lees, Lynn Hollen, author.
- Title
- Planting empire, cultivating subjects : British Malaya, 1786-1941 / Lynn Hollen Lees, University of Pennsylvania.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 332-346) and index.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
- 1867-1942
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40027982117
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-9023