Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects explores how multiple peoples and language groups became British subjects as they confronted one another in cosmopolitan towns and on authoritarian plantations. The British Empire permitted individuals to have multiple identities and encouraged mobility as it bound inhabitants into global networks of production and politics.
Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects explores how multiple peoples and language groups became British subjects as they confronted one another in cosmopolitan towns and on authoritarian plantations. The British Empire permitted individuals to have multiple identities and encouraged mobility as it bound inhabitants into global networks of production and politics.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Lynn Hollen Lees is co-director of the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research centers on European cities, their social organization, and their welfare institutions, with recent publications including Global Society: The World since 1900 (2013), with Pamela K. Crossley and John W. Servos. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Rotary Foundation. She has also spent time as an exchange professor at University College London, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, and the University of Diponegoro in Indonesia.
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Introduction Part I. Nineteenth-Century Foundations: 1. The birth of plantation colonialism 2. Body politics in a plural society 3. New towns on the Malayan frontier 4. Urban civil society Part II. The Early Twentieth Century: 5. Rubber reconstructs Malaya 6. Cosmopolitan modernism in Malayan towns 7. Managing Malayan towns 8. Multiple allegiances in a cosmopolitan colony 9. Epilogue: remembering empire 10. Bibliography.
Introduction Part I. Nineteenth-Century Foundations: 1. The birth of plantation colonialism 2. Body politics in a plural society 3. New towns on the Malayan frontier 4. Urban civil society Part II. The Early Twentieth Century: 5. Rubber reconstructs Malaya 6. Cosmopolitan modernism in Malayan towns 7. Managing Malayan towns 8. Multiple allegiances in a cosmopolitan colony 9. Epilogue: remembering empire 10. Bibliography.
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