Peasants and Their Agricultural Economy in Colonial Malaya, 1874-1941
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In Malayan economic historiography, the main props of the export economy, notably tin and rubber, have engaged the attention of scholars. As these industries were developed by immigrant labour and foreign enterprise, economic historical literature has inevitably focused in Chinese, Indian and Western communities in the plural society of colonial Malaya.
In consequence, historians have neglected the study of the Malays, who since 1957 have established their hegemonic sway in the internal power structure of the Federation of Malaya and six years later, Malaysia even though they are weak economically and a minority, if the country's population is classified into Malays and non Malays.
This work is preceded by Lim Teck Ghee earlier work, Origions of a Colonial Economy: Land and Agriculture in Perak. In a sense, Peasants and Their Agricultural Economy in Colonial Malaya is the earlier study writ large, covering a more extended period and the four states (Negri Sembilan, Pahang, Perak and Selangor) that became the Federated Malay States in 1895.
LIM TECK GHEE, Oxford University Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1977. 291pp. Hardcover.
In consequence, historians have neglected the study of the Malays, who since 1957 have established their hegemonic sway in the internal power structure of the Federation of Malaya and six years later, Malaysia even though they are weak economically and a minority, if the country's population is classified into Malays and non Malays.
This work is preceded by Lim Teck Ghee earlier work, Origions of a Colonial Economy: Land and Agriculture in Perak. In a sense, Peasants and Their Agricultural Economy in Colonial Malaya is the earlier study writ large, covering a more extended period and the four states (Negri Sembilan, Pahang, Perak and Selangor) that became the Federated Malay States in 1895.
LIM TECK GHEE, Oxford University Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1977. 291pp. Hardcover.