Lees, Lynn Hollen,

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.


Electronic Books.

DS596 / .P536 2017