Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects: British Malaya, 1786-1941

ISBN-13: 9781108732086 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 377 str.

Lynn Hollen Lees

Opis

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

Recenzje

'Lees's Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects is a rich and valuable contribution to the historiography of British colonization in Southeast Asia … This monograph is a must-read for scholars interested in British colonial rule in Southeast Asia and the nature of British subjecthood.' Raymond Hyser, H-Environment

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. Nineteenth-Century Foundations: 1. The birth of plantation colonialism; 2. Body politics in a plural society; 3. New towns on the Malayan frontier; 4. Urban civil society; Part II. The Early Twentieth Century: 5. Rubber reconstructs Malaya; 6. Cosmopolitan modernism in Malayan towns; 7. Managing Malayan towns; 8. Multiple allegiances in a cosmopolitan colony; 9. Epilogue: remembering empire; 10. Bibliography.