Title: The invention of politics in colonial Malaya : contesting nationalism and the expansion of the public sphere /
Authors: Milner, Anthony Crothers, 1945-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 1995
Subjects: Nationalism Malaysia Malaya.; Political culture Malaysia Malaya.
Contents: Introduction: Colonialism, Community and Ideology -- 1. The Ancien Regime: Described and Condemned -- 2. Establishing a Liberal Critique -- 3. A Description of the Real World: Expanding Vocabularies -- 4. Conceptualizing a Bangsa Community: A Newspaper of Moderate Opinions -- 5. Building a Bourgeois Public Sphere -- 6. Ideological Challenge on a Second Front: The Kerajaan in Contest with Islam -- 7. Answering Liberalism: Islamic First Moves -- 8. Kerajaan Self-reform: Chronicling a New Sultanate -- 9. Practising Politics in the Mid-Colonial Period -- 10. Surveying the Homeland: Sedar and Dialogic Processes -- Conclusion: Politics and Dialogue.