As Empires Fell : : The Life and Times of Lee Hau-Shik, the First Finance Minister of Malaya / / Ooi Kee Beng.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2020 Part 2
• VerfasserIn: Kee Beng, Ooi,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (252 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; PREFACE --; ACKNOWLEDGEMENT --; INTRODUCTION --; PART ONE. 1901-42 --; Chapter 1 COLONIAL LIFE BETWEEN THE WARS --; Chapter 2 TIMES OF OPPORTUNITY --; PART TWO. 1942-45 --; Chapter 3 POLITICAL AWAKENING AMID GLOBAL WARS --; Chapter 4 FINDING REFUGE IN INDIA --; PART THREE. 1945-59 --; Chapter 5 POLITICS IN A MESSY NEW WORLD --; Chapter 6 MOVING TOWARDS MERDEKA --; EPILOGUE AFTER 1959 --; NOTES --; APPENDIX --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX --; ABOUT THE AUTHOR
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789814881456; 9783110696295; 9783110704792; 9783110704716; 9783110704518; 9783110704624; 9783110689594
• DOI: 10.1355/9789814881456
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Ooi Kee Beng.

To understand how independence was gained for a politically complex country such as Malaysia, and how its structure took form requires familiarity with the key players involved. More importantly, only by locating these actors within the changing socio-political context in which they specifically lived does their influence both before and after the birth of the country become clear.