Invention of Politics in Colonial Malaya - Contesting Nationalism and the Expansion of the Public Sphere

Informationen zum Autor Anthony Milner gained his doctorate from the Gregorian University in Rome, and has taught there and at St John's Seminary, Wonersh, Surrey. He is currently a parish priest in Sussex. Klappentext Pioneering study of political debate in this important Southeast Asian society. Zusammenfassung This book! first published in 1995! is a study of political debate in an important Southeast Asian society. Now available in paperback it re-examines the formative period in Malay nationalism and argues against using nationalism as the paradigm of analysis. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: colonialism, nationalism and contest; 1. The ancien regime: described and condemned; 2. Establishing a liberal critique; 3. A description of the real world: expanding vocabularies; 4. Conceptualizing a Bangsa community: a newspaper of moderate opinions; 5. Building a bourgeois public sphere; 6. Ideological challenge on a second front: The Kerajaan in contest with Islam; 7. Answering liberalism: Islamic first moves; 8. Kerajaan self-reform: chronicling a new Sultanate; 9. Practising politics in the mid-colonial period; 10. Surveying the homeland; Sedar and dialogic processes; Conclusion: the Malay political heritage.

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• Authors: Milner Anthony, Anthony Milner, Anthony (Australian National University Milner
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.07.2002
• EAN: 9780521003568
• ISBN: 978-0-521-00356-8
• No. of pages: 340
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science