Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects - British Malaya, 17861941

This is an innovative study of how British Colonial rule and society in Malayan towns and plantations transformed immigrants into British subjects.

List of contents

Introduction; Part I. Nineteenth-Century Foundations: 1. The birth of plantation colonialism; 2. Body politics in a plural society; 3. New towns on the Malayan frontier; 4. Urban civil society; Part II. The Early Twentieth Century: 5. Rubber reconstructs Malaya; 6. Cosmopolitan modernism in Malayan towns; 7. Managing Malayan towns; 8. Multiple allegiances in a cosmopolitan colony; 9. Epilogue: remembering empire; 10. Bibliography.

About the author

Lynn Hollen Lees is co-director of the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research centers on European cities, their social organization, and their welfare institutions, with recent publications including Global Society: The World since 1900 (2013), with Pamela K. Crossley and John W. Servos. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Rotary Foundation. She has also spent time as an exchange professor at University College London, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, and the University of Diponegoro in Indonesia.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Lynn Hollen Lees, Lynn Hollen (University of Pennsylvania) Lees, Lees Lynn Hollen
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781107038400
• ISBN: 978-1-107-03840-0
• No. of pages: 374
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Malaysia, British Empire, 20th Century, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, Asian History, Agriculture & Related Industries, Agribusiness and primary industries