British Malaya Colonialism Enclosure Confinement Race Southeast Asia Nearly forty-five years ago, in 1977, Mohamed Amin and Malcolm Caldwell published their influential edited collection, Malaya: The Making of a Neo-Colony. Self-described as an ‘independent radical study’, the volume advanced a Mar...
^During the Second World War the Japanese had put some effort into pressuring thousands of Indian prisoners captured in Malaya into joining the Indian National Army (Peter Ward Fay, The Forgotten Army (Ann Arbor, Mich., 1993)), but showed no interest in suborning their British captives, whil...
During the Age of Discovery in the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal and Spain pioneered European exploration of the globe, and in the process established large overseas empires. Envious of the great wealth these empires generated,[5] England, France, and the Netherlands began to establish colonie...
While some former colonies like Canada and Australia had been granted their political independence, they still looked to Britain as the centre of their political and cultural world and assisted loyally in British efforts to defeat Hitler's army. 战争结束时,英国是西欧最大的军事强国。 When the war...
This led to a revolt in Malaya in 1948, led by the Malayan Communist Party (MCP), members of which had fought with the British against the Japanese during the War. The MCP renamed themselves the Malaya Races Liberation Army (MRLA) and disappeared into the dense jungle that covered most ...
While some former colonies like Canada and Australia had been granted their political independence, they still looked to Britain as the centre of their political and cultural world and assisted loyally in British efforts to defeat Hitler's army. ...
The company's army had first joined forces with the Royal Navy during the Seven Years' War, and the two continued to co-operate in arenas outside India: the eviction of the French from Egypt (1799),[107] the capture of Java from the Netherlands (1811), the acquisition of Penang Island...