Planting empire, cultivating subjects : British Malaya, 1786-1941 /
Lynn Hollen Lees, University of Pennsylvania.
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, (c)2017.
- 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
9781108547963
Plantations--History.--Malaysia--Malaya Agriculture and politics--History.--Malaysia--Malaya Cosmopolitanism--History.--Malaysia--Malaya Imperialism--Social aspects--History.