Malaysia - History from

Kuching, Malaysia: Ho Ah Chon, Undated. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 25-7-15. Sarawak only became a colony of the British Government in the immediate aftermath of World War II, when the last Brooke rajah ceded power, Abell was the third British Governor of the colony following the assassination of his predecessor. This book through archive photographs and local… Read more about this item

Singapore: Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1972. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. For further details, please see the scanned contents page 114 pages. Weight 0.4kg. Post free within Malaysia.  The book is in remarkably good condition. There is evidence of a removed price sticker on the back cover. The binding is tight, the text is… Read more about this item

Singapore: NUS Press, 2017. Paperback. New. Benevenuti unearths an often forgotten aspect of Britain's decolonisation process in Southeast Asia, Australia's role in attempting to ensure that it had friendly neighbours. The book's focus is on Australia's role during the Malayan 'Emergency,' the Peoples Action Party in Singapore and finally the expansion of Malaya into the Federation of Malaysia.… Read more about this item

Kota Kinabalu: Natural History Publications, 2004. Hard Cover. New/new. One of Malaysia's leading historians, who was born in Sabah, traces the beginnings of urban life in what was then North Borneo. He not only explains how such communities came into existence, but also their livelihoods and leisure activities. 171 pages with illustrations and a bibliography. Weight 0.7kg. Post… Read more about this item

Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1993. Paperback. Very Good. King, a noted sociologist specialising in Borneo, introduces the reader to excerpts from the the accounts of various travellers to the island of Borneo from the 16th to the 20th centuries. While one would expect names such as Hose, Beccari, Brooke and Spenser St John to be in this… Read more about this item

Kota Kinabalu: Opus Publications, 2010. Hardcover. New/new. A detailed and colourful introduction to the Sabah state capital, formerly Jessleton, and the areas easily accessible to it. The coastal city, partly surrounded by rain forest, is also the jumping off point for visits to Kinabalu National Park. This is a book that is particularly useful for new arrivals or… Read more about this item

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic , 1983. First edition. Paperback. Good. 2-4-17. Peet arrived in Kuala Lumpur, as the Straits Times' first correspondent stationed in the city, when the Federal Capital was barely half a century old. Within living memory, the new city had been a Chinese mining village. However, as this personal selection of… Read more about this item

Singapore: Straits Times Press, 1960. Magazine. Very Good. 26-4-17. The annual review of life in Malaya by the country's leading newspaper at a time when the 'Emergency' was simmering and the country was taking stock of the People's Action Party's decisive election win in the previous year . With numerous black and white and colour photos,… Read more about this item

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1991. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 147 pages. Please see the scan of the cover for further details. Weight 0.5kg. Post free within Malaysia The cover is a little dirty and has minor creases. The binding is tight, the text is clear and there is very mild tanning throughout.

London: Robert Hale, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 19-6-16. The author, a freelance writer, wrote several books that attempted to introduce the reader to the 'real' nature of a range of different countries. In this one he tackles Malaysia in its early years just after independence. His book has been fairly popular since it was first… Read more about this item

Ipoh, Malaysia: Perak Academy, 2014. Revised. Paperback. New/new. Although Ipoh did not become capital of the state of Perak until the Japanese occupation, it had been able to boast as having more millionaires than any other Malayan town from well before that time. Ipoh's millionaires owned their wealth to being at the centre of one of the world's… Read more about this item

Kuching, Malaysia: Ho Ah Chon, Undated. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 25-7-15. Sarawak only became a colony of the British Government in the immediate aftermath of World War II, when the last Brooke rajah ceded power, Abell was the third British Governor of the colony following the assassination of his predecessor. This book through archive photographs and local… Read more about this item

Shah Alam, Malaysia: Oxford University Press, 2004. Second edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. An updated edition, including new illustrations, of this popular collection of pictures and anecdotes about Kuching before World War II. 81 pages. Please see the scan of the contents page for further details. Weight: 0.5kg. Post free within Malaysia

Petaling Jaya, Malaysia: SIRD, 2014. Paperback. New. Unlike its neighbours in Southeast Asia, Malaysia managed to achieve its independence with its aristocracy and ruling class mainly in tact. In this work the late Donna Amoroso explains, inter alia, how the egalitarian elements of the independence movement were sidelined. Interestingly the sultans' position was preserved not only because of… Read more about this item

Petaling Jaya, Malaysia: SIRD, 2015. Second edition. Paperback. New/N/A. Prior to the Second World War Malay society on the peninsula an in East Sumatra had been dominated by the kerjaan, sultans' rule. Postwar nascent nationalism in both Indonesia and Malaya eroded the role of the sultans leading to their elimination in Indonesia and reduction to a more ceremonial… Read more about this item

London: John Murray Publishers, 2004. Paperback. Very Good. Shennan, who grew up in British Malaya, doesn't set out to write a political history of the period, but rather of the British who lived there. Noel Coward's alledged description of Malaya as 'a first-rate country for a second-rate people' was a pretty fair reflection of British attitudes to commercial… Read more about this item

Petaling Jaya, Malaysia: Suaram Kommunikasi, 2007. 2013 Reprint. Paperback. New. (Chinese Language edition of this book.) The banning of a book or, as in this case, the threat of banning can never be bad for sales. As a result one of the most important works on Malaysian post-independence history has been republished. The significance of the book is… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2000. Paperback. Good. The extraordinary story of the German light cruiser SMS Emden and the havoc it wreaked amongst allied shipping in the Indian and Pacific Oceans during World War I. 205 pages including index and notes. 0.6kg. This is an ex-library book with a small label on the spine under the plastic protected cover, a… Read more about this item

Singapore: Donald Moore, 1955. Second edition. Paperback. Good. The recognised authority in 1950s Malaya provides the reader with an amazingly concise and comprehensive review of the nascent law in this field 47 pages including a bibliography. The book's chapters include Labour Laws in Singapore & the Federated Malay States, Society Laws and Trade Union Laws, Trespass and… Read more about this item

Singapore: Donald Moore, 1957. Second edition. Paperback. Very Good. The booklet consists of transcripts of a series of talks given on Radio Malaya to introduce listeners to the workings of the country's economy and to encourage further study. Contributors, including Ungku Abdul Aziz, TH Silcock, Charles Gamba, the editor and others, were drawn from the University of Malaya's… Read more about this item