SOCIAL historySEX ratioADMINISTRATION of British coloniesNORMATIVITY (Ethics)In Fleeting Agencies, Arunima Datta critiques this trope by vividly presenting and analyzing evidence that Tamil coolie women were not just hapless victims dependent upon the migrating men they accompanied. Datta ...
In the following pages the various sections of the British Empire outside Gt. Britain and Northern Ireland are arranged in alphabetical order under the divisions of the world to which they belong :—1. Europe; 2. Asia; 3. Africa; 4. America; 5. Australas
The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth HistoryA. J. Stockwell, ‘British Imperial Policy and Decolonization in Malaya, 1942–52’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History , 13/1 (1984) 66–87Stockwell, A.J. (1984). "British Imperial Policy and Decolonization in Malaya, 1942- 1952", ...
The settlement of Canada was based on the desire to develop the fur trade, and Australia proved to be a convenient place for transporting criminals'0 (it was cheaper to send criminals to the undeveloped lands of Australia than to keep them in prison in Britain). 英国的岛国地理位置使其居民产...
(Placename) the 17 provinces of India formerly governed by the British under the British sovereign: ceased to exist in 1947 when the independent states of India and Pakistan were created Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994...
^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...
[191] In this context, while other European powers such as France and Portugal waged costly and unsuccessful wars to keep their empires intact, Britain generally adopted a policy of peaceful disengagement from its colonies, although violence occurred in Malaya, Kenya and Palestine.[192] Between ...
British history before that time is largely undocumented. In 55 BC and 54 BC, Britain was twice invaded by Roman troops led by Julius Caesar and was invaded again by the Romans under Claudius I(克劳狄一世) in 43 AD. Britain subsequently became a Roman province and remained so until the ...
The Straits Chinese considered themselves to be a “privileged community”. They were the “King’s Chinese” (referring to the English monarch) because they lived in a crown colony of the British empire. The Federation of Malaya was formed on 31 August
1)British Malaya英属马来亚 1.This text tries to inquiry into the problem of s isolation between Malays and Chinese inBritish Malayafrom several angles,such as history,economy and cultural.本文试图从历史、经济和文化等多个角度来探讨英属马来亚时期的马华隔离问题。