Creating "Greater Malaysia": Decolonization and the Politics of Merger

by Tan Tai Yong

This book offers an in-depth and detailed analysis of the political processes that led to formation of the Federation of Malaysia in 1963. It argues that the Malaysia that came into being following the amalgamation of Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak and North Borneo was a political creation whose only rationale was that it served a convergence of political and economic expediency for the departing colonial power, the Malayan leadership and the ruling party...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9812307478
• ISBN13: 9789812307477
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"