Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects: British Malaya, 1786-1941

by Lynn Hollen Lees

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107038405
• ISBN13: 9781107038400
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"