ISBN: 9781107038400

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 t… Mehr…

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. Books<

ISBN: 9781107038400

Hardback, [PU: Cambridge University Press], Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects explores how multiple peoples and language groups became British subjects as they confronted one another … Mehr…

Hardback, [PU: Cambridge University Press], Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects explores how multiple peoples and language groups became British subjects as they confronted one another in cosmopolitan towns and on authoritarian plantations. The British Empire permitted individuals to have multiple identities and encouraged mobility as it bound inhabitants into global networks of production and politics., Colonialism & Imperialism<

2017, ISBN: 9781107038400

British Malaya, 1786?1941, Buch, Hardcover, [PU: Cambridge University Press], Cambridge University Press, 2017

2017, ISBN: 9781107038400

British Malaya, 1786-1941, Buch, Hardcover, [PU: Cambridge University Press], Cambridge University Press, 2017