TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kee Beng,Ooi
TI  - As Empires Fell: The Life and Times of Lee Hau-Shik, the First Finance Minister of Malaya 
SN  - 9789814881449
U1  - 959.505092 
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Singapore : 
PB  - ISEAS Publishing, 
KW  - Economic Development
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1355/9789814881456
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789814881456
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