As Empires Fell : The Life and Times of Lee Hau-Shik, the First Finance Minister of Malaya /
Kee Beng, Ooi
As Empires Fell : The Life and Times of Lee Hau-Shik, the First Finance Minister of Malaya / Ooi Kee Beng. - 1 online resource (252 p.)
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9789814881449 9789814881456
10.1355/9789814881456 doi
Economic Development.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General.
959.505092
As Empires Fell : The Life and Times of Lee Hau-Shik, the First Finance Minister of Malaya / Ooi Kee Beng. - 1 online resource (252 p.)
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
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9789814881449 9789814881456
10.1355/9789814881456 doi
Economic Development.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General.
959.505092