The End of Empire and the Making of Malaya
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 15, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780521004657
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: postwar, from c 1945 -; World history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; History; History - General History; History: World; Malaysia; South East Asia; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Asia - Southeast Asia; General; History / Modern / 20th Century; History-Asia - Southeast Asia; Malaya--History; Malaya--History Malaya--History; Political Science / General; Far East
First sentence: In Malacca, beside a large reconstruction of the palace of its kings, housed in the old British Club where Somerset Maugham set his short story 'Footprints in the jungle', is an exhibition of over 500 years of Malaysian history.