TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lees,Lynn Hollen
TI  - Planting empire, cultivating subjects: British Malaya, 1786-1941 
SN  - 9781139814867 (ebook)
AV  - DS596 .L44 2017
U1  - 959.5/103 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Plantations
KW  - Malaysia
KW  - Malaya
KW  - History
KW  - Agriculture and politics
KW  - Cosmopolitanism
KW  - Imperialism
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - British rule, 1867-1942
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jan 2018); 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139814867
ER  -