The invention of politics in colonial Malaya : contesting nationalism and the expansion of the public sphere / Anthony Milner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Milner, Anthony Crothers, 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism--Malaysia--Malaya.

Nationalism.

Political culture--Malaysia--Malaya.

Political culture.

Malaysia.

Malaya.

Physical Description:

vi, 328 pages : map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1995, c1994.

Summary:

This book is a pioneering study of political debate in an important Southeast Asian society. It reexamines the formative period in Malay nationalism and argues against using nationalism as a paradigm of analysis. By 'interrogating' a range of key Malay texts from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Anthony Milner shows how contested and problematic the sphere of nationalism was.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-317) and index.

ISBN:

0521465656

OCLC:

30400388