This book presents a comprehensive history of the Malay Peninsula, from the Malacca Sultanate in the 15th century to the formation of an independent state in the late 1950s. Kennedy traces the political, economic, and social dynamics that shaped Malaya, including the influence of foreign powers such as the Portuguese, Dutch, and British. He reviews the evolution of the Malay kingdom, its intera…
This book presents an anthropological and sociological analysis of cultural diversity in the Malay Peninsula. N. J. Ryan reviews the social and cultural background of the main ethnic groups, namely the Malay, Chinese, and Indian, as well as Western influences, in the development of Malay society. Through a historical approach, he explores the social structures, customs, traditional values, beli…
Emergency and confrontation is the first sustained and scholarly account of Australia's, waged againts the armed forces of the Malayan communist party between 1948 and 1960, and in confrontation, an undeclared war initiated by Indonesia to destabilise the emergent federation of Malaysia and fought largely along the common border in the northern part of Borneo between 1962 and 1966.