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The Underside of Malaysian history : pullers, prostitutes, plantation workers-- / edited by Peter J. Rimmer & Lisa M. Allen.
- Title
- The Underside of Malaysian history : pullers, prostitutes, plantation workers-- / edited by Peter J. Rimmer & Lisa M. Allen.
- Publication
- Singapore : Singapore University Press for the Malaysia Society of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, c1990.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | HN700.6.A8 U52 1990 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xiv, 259 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History (form)
- Congresses (form)
- Note
- Based on papers from a colloquium held at the Australian National University, 1985.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-250) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Underside of Malaysian history / Peter J. Rimmer, et. al. -- Changes in the economic position of workers on rubber estates and smallholdings in Peninsular Malaysia 1910-1985 / Colin Barlow -- Politics of survival / John Drabble -- From tin mine collies to agricultural squatters / Loh Kok Wah -- Working on the railway / Amarjit Kaur -- Hackney carriage syces and rikisha pullers in Singapore / Peter J. Rimmer -- Prostitution in Singapore society and the Karayuki-san / James F. Warren -- Estate workers' heath in the Federated Malay States in the 1920s / J. Norman Parmer -- Race, colonial mentality and public health in early twentieth century Malaya / Lenore Manderson -- Malayan Amok and Latah as "History Bound" syndromes / Robert L. Winzeler.
- ISBN
- 9971691272
- OCLC
- 22446173
- SCSB-11207993
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library