As Empires Fell : : The Life and Times of Lee Hau-Shik, the First Finance Minister of Malaya / / 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 liv...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2020 Part 2 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (252 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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