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As Empires Fell : The Life and Times of Lee Hau-Shik, the First Finance Minister of Malaya / Ooi Kee Beng.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Singapore : ISEAS Publishing, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (252 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789814881449
  • 9789814881456
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 959.505092
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE. 1901-42 -- Chapter 1 COLONIAL LIFE BETWEEN THE WARS -- Chapter 2 TIMES OF OPPORTUNITY -- PART TWO. 1942-45 -- Chapter 3 POLITICAL AWAKENING AMID GLOBAL WARS -- Chapter 4 FINDING REFUGE IN INDIA -- PART THREE. 1945-59 -- Chapter 5 POLITICS IN A MESSY NEW WORLD -- Chapter 6 MOVING TOWARDS MERDEKA -- EPILOGUE AFTER 1959 -- NOTES -- APPENDIX -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Summary: To understand how independence was gained for a politically complex country such as Malaysia, and how its structure took form requires familiarity with the key players involved. More importantly, only by locating these actors within the changing socio-political context in which they specifically lived does their influence both before and after the birth of the country become clear.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9789814881456

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE. 1901-42 -- Chapter 1 COLONIAL LIFE BETWEEN THE WARS -- Chapter 2 TIMES OF OPPORTUNITY -- PART TWO. 1942-45 -- Chapter 3 POLITICAL AWAKENING AMID GLOBAL WARS -- Chapter 4 FINDING REFUGE IN INDIA -- PART THREE. 1945-59 -- Chapter 5 POLITICS IN A MESSY NEW WORLD -- Chapter 6 MOVING TOWARDS MERDEKA -- EPILOGUE AFTER 1959 -- NOTES -- APPENDIX -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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To understand how independence was gained for a politically complex country such as Malaysia, and how its structure took form requires familiarity with the key players involved. More importantly, only by locating these actors within the changing socio-political context in which they specifically lived does their influence both before and after the birth of the country become clear.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)