Karl Hack

The Malayan Emergency

Revolution and Counterinsurgency at the End of Empire

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first in-depth and multi-perspective study of anti-colonial resistance and counterinsurgency in the Malayan Emergency and its impact on Malaysia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 871g
• ISBN-13: 9781107080102
• ISBN-10: 110708010X
• Artikelnr.: 62566735

Autorenporträt

Karl Hack is Professor of History at The Open University, having previously taught for over a decade at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University. His previous books include Dialogues with Chin Peng: New Light on the Malayan Emergency (2004), and War Memory and the Making of Modern Malaysia and Singapore (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction and overview
2. Fatal decisions: late 1947 to 20 June 1948
3. Terror, counter-terror and pressure: June 1948 to January 1949
4. Bureaucratic counter-terror and MNLA main forces: January 1949 to February 1950
5. The Briggs plan: March 1950 to November 1951
6. Chin Peng and communist plans: October 1950 to early 1954
7. Templer: November 1951 to early 1953
8. Optimising Counterinsurgency: 1952 to 1960
9. Politics, Decolonisation and Counterinsurgency: 1952 to 1960
10. Conclusion. Historiography, myths and 'lessons'
Appendix 1: Emergency statistics (casualties, full time police strength)
Appendix 2: The second Malayan emergency, 1968-1989
Glossary
Bibliography
Index.