Milner The Malays

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-9166-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten, E-Book

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Just who are 'the Malays'? This provocative study posesthe question and considers how and why the answers have changedover time, and from one region to another. Anthony Milner developsa sustained argument about ethnicity and identity in an historical,'Malay' context. The Malays is a comprehensiveexamination of the origins and development of Malay identity,ethnicity, and consciousness over the past five centuries.
* * Covers the political, economic, and cultural development of theMalays
* Explores the Malay presence in Brunei, Singapore, Indonesia,Thailand, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, and South Africa, as well as themodern Malay show-state of Malaysia
* Offers diplomatic speculation about ways Malay ethnicity willdevelop and be challenged in the future

Autoren/Hrsg.

Milner, Anthony

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures.
List of Maps.
Preface and Acknowledgements.
Note about the Author.
1 Thinking about 'the Malays' and 'Malayness'.
2 Early Histories: Engaging India and Islam.
3 The Sultanates.
4 A 'Malay' or Kerajaan World?
5 Experiencing Colonialism, and the Making of the BangsaMelayu.
6 Building 'Malays' into Nation States.
7 Multiple Forms of 'Malayness'.
8 Ethnicity, Civilization and the Fear of 'Disappearing fromthis World'.
Bibliography.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Anthony Milner is Basham Professor of Asian History at the Australian National University, and was Visiting Professor at The Research Institute for the Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (Tokyo) in 2007. He has also held appointments as Raffles Visiting Professor of History at the National University of Singapore and Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. His writings on 'the Malays' include The Invention of Politics in Colonial Malaya (1995, 2002), and Kerajaan: Malay Political Culture on the Eve of Colonial Rule (1982). He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.