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Fair Land Sarawak : Some Recollections of an Expatriate Officer / Alastair Morrison.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©1993Description: 1 online resource (196 p.) : 45 B&W photographsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501718809
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 354.59540092 M834m 20
LOC classification:
  • DS597.38.M67 A3 1993
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- FOREWORD -- 1. THE BACKDROP -- 2. EARLY DAYS—SARIKEI AND BINATANG -- 3. LAWAS -- 4. KANOWIT -- 5. BARAM -- 6. THE SECRETARIAT -- 7. THE INFORMATION OFFICE -- 8. ESTABLISHMENT OF MALAYSIA -- 9. THE LAST LAP -- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Summary: An officer's first-person account of British colonial disengagement from Sarawak. Morrison explains the daily bureaucracy of colonial life from an inside perspective and details the changes that occurred during his years in Sarawak: the growth and expansion of Communist movements, the emerging modernization of various districts, and the formation of Malaysia.
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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)9781501718809

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- FOREWORD -- 1. THE BACKDROP -- 2. EARLY DAYS—SARIKEI AND BINATANG -- 3. LAWAS -- 4. KANOWIT -- 5. BARAM -- 6. THE SECRETARIAT -- 7. THE INFORMATION OFFICE -- 8. ESTABLISHMENT OF MALAYSIA -- 9. THE LAST LAP -- BIBLIOGRAPHY

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An officer's first-person account of British colonial disengagement from Sarawak. Morrison explains the daily bureaucracy of colonial life from an inside perspective and details the changes that occurred during his years in Sarawak: the growth and expansion of Communist movements, the emerging modernization of various districts, and the formation of Malaysia.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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