Title Planting empire, cultivating subjects : British Malaya, 1786-1941 / Lynn Hollen Lees, University of Pennsylvania.

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Description	1 online resource
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction -- The birth of plantation colonialism -- Body politics in a plural society -- New towns on the Malayan frontier -- Urban civil society -- Rubber reconstructs Malaya -- Cosmopolitan modernity -- Managing Malayan towns -- Multiple allegiances in a cosmopolitan colony -- Epilogue: representing empire, remembering colonial rule.
Summary	This is an innovative study of how British Colonial rule and society in Malayan towns and plantations transformed immigrants into British subjects.
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Subject	Malaya -- History -- British rule, 1867-1942.
	Plantations -- Malaysia -- Malaya -- History.
	Plantations.
	Malaya.
	History.
	Agriculture and politics -- Malaysia -- Malaya -- History.
	Cosmopolitanism -- Malaysia -- Malaya -- History.
	Agriculture and politics.
	Imperialism -- Social aspects -- History.
	Imperialism -- Social aspects.
	Imperialism.
	Cosmopolitanism.
	HISTORY -- Asia -- Southeast Asia.
Chronological Term	1867-1942
Genre/Form	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Lees, Lynn Hollen. Planting empire, cultivating subjects. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [2017] 9781107038400 (DLC) 2017018418 (OCoLC)992798562
ISBN	9781108547963 (electronic book)
	1108547966 (electronic book)
	9781139814867
	1139814869
	9781107038400
	1107038405