British Policy and Malay Politics During The Malayan Union Experiment, 1942-48

This highly readable study of Britain’s controversial effort to create a Malayan Union following the Pacific War explains dramatic that altered the Malayan political landscape in the years leading up to Independence.

The Author

Professor Anthony John Stockwell is one of the leading historians specialising in British imperialism and decolonisation in Southeast Asia. Professor Stockwell was educated at Whitgift School in London and St. John’s College, Cambridge. After a stint as a teacher and an assistant principal in the home civil service, Professor Stockwell completed his PhD at London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies, upon which the present MBRAS monograph was based. Professor Stockwell was appointed to the History Department at Royal Holloway College in 1972. In 1996, he was promoted to Professor of Imperial and Commonwealth History. In 1989, Professor Stockwell became joint editor of the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. He has also served his college as Dean of Overseas Students, Dean of the Faculties of Arts and Music and Head of the History Department. Professor Stockwell served as President of the Royal Asiatic Society in 2000 – 2003.