| Author | : A. J. Stockwell |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 502 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Decolonization |
| ISBN | : |
Malaya: The Alliance route to independence, 1953-1957
| Author | : A. J. Stockwell |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 500 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Drawing on source material from official British archives held at the Public Record Office, this three-part volume documents the course of Anglo-Malayan relations from the fall of Singapore in February 1942 to the achievement of Malayan independence in August 1957.
Malaya: The Malayan Union experiment, 1942-1948
| Author | : A. J. Stockwell |
| Publisher | : Stationery Office Books (TSO) |
| Total Pages | : 494 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Drawing on source material from official British archives held at the Public Records office, this three-part volume documents the course of Anglo-Malayan relations from the fall of Singapore in February 1942 to the achievement of Malayan independence in August 1957.
The Malayan Emergency
| Author | : Karl Hack |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 529 |
| Release | : 2021-12-16 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1009234145 |
The Malayan Emergency of 1948–1960 has been scrutinised for 'lessons' about how to win counterinsurgencies from the Vietnam War to twenty-first century Afghanistan. This book brings our understanding of the conflict up to date by interweaving government and insurgent accounts and looking at how they played out at local level. Drawing on oral history, recent memoirs and declassified archival material from the UK and Asia, Karl Hack offers a comprehensive, multi-perspective account of the Malayan Emergency and its impact on Malaysia. He sheds new light on questions about terror and violence against civilians, how insurgency and decolonisation interacted and how revolution was defeated. He considers how government policies such as pressurising villagers, resettlement and winning 'hearts and minds' can be judged from the perspective of insurgents and civilians. This timely book is the first truly multi-perspective and in-depth study of anti-colonial resistance and counterinsurgency in the Malayan Emergency.
Malaya: The Communist insurrection, 1948-1953
| Author | : A. J. Stockwell |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 522 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Part two of this three part volume deals with the worst five years of the emergency from its origins and declaration in June 1948, to the assassination of Sir Henry Gurney, the high commissioner, in October 1951, and finally to the decision at the end of August 1953 to designate part of Malacca a white area. The documents show how the setbacks experienced in the first years of countering insurgency heightened tensions between Malays and Chinese, between military, police and administrative authorities on the spot, and between different department in Whitehall. They also disclose the results of the visit to Malaya by Oliver Lyttelton, the colonial secretary, which led to the appointment of General Templar as the new high commissioner in February 1952.
Decolonisation and the British Empire, 1775–1997
| Author | : George Boyce |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 325 |
| Release | : 1999-09-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 134927755X |
This book combines an analysis of the ideas and policies that governed the British experience of decolonization. It shows how the British, perhaps more correctly the English, political tradition, with its emphasis on experience over abstract theory, was integral to the way in which the empire was regarded as being transformed rather than lost. This was a significant aspect of the relatively painless British loss of empire. It places the process of decolonization in its wider context, tracing the twentieth-century domestic and international conditions that hastened decolonization, and, through a close analysis of not only the policy choices but also the language of British imperialism, it throws new light on the British way of managing both the expansion and contraction of empire.
Emergency Propaganda
| Author | : Kumar Ramakrishna |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 330 |
| Release | : 2013-04-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1136602755 |
Sheds new light on the hitherto neglected years of the Emergency (1955-58) demonstrating how it was British propaganda which decisively ended the shooting war in December 1958. The study argues for a concept of 'propaganda' that embraces not merely 'words' in the form of film, radio and leaflets but also 'deeds'.
Conflict and Confrontation in South East Asia, 1961–1965
| Author | : Matthew Jones |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 358 |
| Release | : 2001-09-06 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781139430470 |
In the early 1960s, Britain and the United States were still trying to come to terms with the powerful forces of indigenous nationalism unleashed by the Second World War. The Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation - a crisis which was, as Macmillan remarked to Kennedy, 'as dangerous a situation in Southeast Asia as we have seen since the war' - was a complex test of Anglo-American relations. As American commitment to Vietnam accelerated under the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, Britain was involving herself in an 'end-of-empire' exercise in state-building which had important military and political implications for both nations. In this book Matthew Jones provides a detailed insight into the origins, outbreak and development of this important episode in international history; using a large range of previously unavailable archival sources, he illuminates the formation of the Malaysian federation, Indonesia's violent opposition to the state and the Western Powers' attempts to deal with the resulting conflict.
The Routledge Companion to Decolonization
| Author | : Dietmar Rothermund |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 385 |
| Release | : 2006-04-18 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1134250991 |
This is an essential companion to the process of decolonization – perhaps one of the most important historical processes of the twentieth century. Examining decolonization in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the Pacific, the Companion includes: thematic chapters a detailed chronology and thorough glossary biographies of key figures maps. Providing comprehensive coverage of a broad and complex subject area, the guide explores: the global context for decolonization nationalism and the rise of resistance movements resistance by white settlers and moves towards independence Hong Kong and Macau, and decolonization in the late twentieth century debates surrounding neo-colonialism, and the rise of ‘development’ projects and aid the legacy of colonialism in law, education, administration and the military. With suggestions for further reading, and a guide to sources, this is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of the colonial and post-colonial eras, and is an indispensable guide to the reshaping of the world in the twentieth century.
