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Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects - British Malaya, 1786-1941 (Paperback)
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Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects - British Malaya, 1786-1941 (Paperback)
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Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects examines the stories of
ordinary people to explore the internal workings of colonial rule.
Chinese, Indians, and Malays learned about being British through
the plantations, towns, schools, and newspapers of a modernizing
colony. Yet they got mixed messages from the harsh, racial
hierarchies of sugar and rubber estates, and cosmopolitan urban
societies. Empire meant mobility, fluidity, and hybridity, as well
as the enactment of racial privilege and rigid ethnic differences.
Using sources ranging from administrative files, court transcripts
and oral interviews to periodicals and material culture, Professor
Lees explores the nature and development of colonial governance,
and the ways in which Malayan residents experienced British rule in
towns and plantations. This is an innovative study demonstrating
how empire brought with it both oppression and economic
opportunity, shedding new light on the shifting nature of colonial
subjecthood and identity, as well as the memory and afterlife of
empire.
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