Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects examines the stories of ordinary people to explore the internal workings of colonial rule. Chinese, Indians, and Malays learned about being British through the plantations, towns, schools, and newspapers of a modernizing colony. Yet they got…
Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects' examines the stories of ordinary people to explore the internal workings of colonial rule. Chinese, Indians, and Malays learned about being British through the plantations, towns, schools, and newspapers of a modernizing colony. Yet they go…
This is an innovative study of how British Colonial rule and society in Malayan towns and plantations transformed immigrants into British subjects.
First full publication of Edgar Thompson's 1932 dissertation on the economics of the plantation.
First full publication of Edgar Thompson's 1932 dissertation on the economics of the plantation.
First full publication of Edgar Thompson's 1932 dissertation on the economics of the plantation.
First full publication of Edgar Thompson's 1932 dissertation on the economics of the plantation.