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This is the first truly multi-perspective and in-depth study of anti-colonial resistance and counterinsurgency in the Malayan Emergency. Drawing on oral history, memoirs and documents from the UK and Asia, Karl Hack sheds new light on terror and violence, how insurgency and decolonisation interacted, and how revolution was defeated.
List of contents
1. Introduction and overview; 2. Fatal decisions: late 1947 to 20 June 1948; 3. Terror, counter-terror and pressure: June 1948 to January 1949; 4. Bureaucratic counter-terror and MNLA main forces: January 1949 to February 1950; 5. The Briggs plan: March 1950 to November 1951; 6. Chin Peng and communist plans: October 1950 to early 1954; 7. Templer: November 1951 to early 1953; 8. Optimising Counterinsurgency: 1952 to 1960; 9. Politics, Decolonisation and Counterinsurgency: 1952 to 1960; 10. Conclusion. Historiography, myths and 'lessons'; Appendix 1: Emergency statistics (casualties, full time police strength); Appendix 2: The second Malayan emergency, 1968-1989; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.
About the author
Karl Hack is Professor of History at The Open University, having previously taught for over a decade at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University. His previous books include Dialogues with Chin Peng: New Light on the Malayan Emergency (2004), and War Memory and the Making of Modern Malaysia and Singapore (2012).
Summary
This is the first truly multi-perspective and in-depth study of anti-colonial resistance and counterinsurgency in the Malayan Emergency. Drawing on oral history, memoirs and documents from the UK and Asia, Karl Hack sheds new light on terror and violence, how insurgency and decolonisation interacted, and how revolution was defeated.
