Author : Dennis Holman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Anthropologists
ISBN : UGA:32108009825822
Noone of the Ulu
Dennis Holman
Noone Of The Ulu
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Distant Archipelagos
Peter Moss
Author : Peter Moss
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08
Category : Malaysia
ISBN : 9780595325566
Distant Archipelagos by Peter Moss Pdf
He dropped money bags from low-flying biplanes on remote rubber plantations and tin mines, spent nights in deep jungle longhouses, aboard fishing kelongs manned by aboriginals far out at sea, in mosquito-infested swamps collecting malarial parasites and on beaches where giant leatherback turtles came to lay their eggs. He accompanied commonwealth troops hunting for terrorists on the Thai-Malaysian border, flew reconnaissance patrols seeking guerilla camps and escorted Field Marshal Templer on his return visit to the country he had liberated from communist insurrection. He met Lady Edwina Mountbatten, wife of the architect of India's independence, interviewed actors Orson Welles and Sir Donald Wolfit, and was conversing with the French Ambassador when a ghost walked into the room. He worked with William Holden, Susannah York and Capucine on a film in which nearly everyone ended up miscast. He helped conceal an escaped prisoner in a hilarious fake jail-break, trailed the Sultan of Pahang on a regal progress through Malaysia's largest state and befriended one of President Soekarno's infamous red beret parachutists, sent on a sabotage mission during the height of Indonesian confrontation. Mostly he loved the land and its people, so much that he shunned the cocktail circuit and the city life for the simple pleasures of the kampong and the open road, learning the language and feeling his way towards what French author Henry Fauconnier had called "the Soul of Malaya". With Distant Archipelagos, Peter Moss follows up his account of an Anglo-Indian childhood, in Bye-Bye Blackbird, by painting a vivid portrait of another vanished world.
Death Waits in the Dark
Roy Jumper
Author : Roy Jumper
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313074752
Death Waits in the Dark by Roy Jumper Pdf
The Senoi Praaq is a Malaysian special forces unit originally created in 1956 by the British colonial authorities to fight communism during the Malayan Emergency. The term Senoi Praaq, which roughly translates as war people, stems from the Semai language and is the basis of a colorful legend in Malaysia. The unit is largely comprised of non-Malay tribal peoples known collectively as the Orang Asli of Peninsular Malaysia. Jumper details Senoi Praaq inception as a private army and its subsequent development into an affiliate of the Royal Malaysian Police (RMP) in this fast paced and often graphic account of irregular warfare as it applies to counterinsurgency. The unit began as a creature of British Military Intelligence and fought in the deep jungle as Special Air Service (SAS) protégés, eventually replacing the latter upon Malaysian independence from Great Britain. They then served as mercenaries employed by the United States Central Intelligence Agency in Vietnam and later fought on Borneo during Malaysia's own undeclared war with Indonesia. Today the unit remains under arms and heads up a large paramilitary apparatus maintained in conjunction with conventional military forces. Malaysia's capacity to project force throughout South East Asia should not be underestimated, Jumper warns. The Senoi Praaq is a unique fighting force upon which Malaysia may rely to preserve her sovereignty.
Nature and Nation
Jeyamalar Kathirithamby-Wells
Author : Jeyamalar Kathirithamby-Wells
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0824828631
Nature and Nation by Jeyamalar Kathirithamby-Wells Pdf
Nature and Nation explores the relations between people and forests in Peninsular Malaysia where the planet's richest terrestrial eco-system met head-on with the fastest pace of economic transformation experienced in the tropical world. It engages the interplay of history, culture, science, economics and politics to provide a holistic interpretation of the continuing relevance of forests to state and society in the moist tropics. Malaysia has long been singled out for emulation by developing nations, an accolade contradicted in recent years by concerns over its capital-, rather than poverty-driven forest depletion. The Malaysian case supports the call for re-appraisal of entrenched prescriptions for development that go beyond material needs. -- Book cover.
Grounded Globalism
James L. Peacock
Author : James L. Peacock
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780820341569
Grounded Globalism by James L. Peacock Pdf
The world is flat? Maybe not, says this paradigm-shifting study of globalism's impact on a region legendarily resistant to change. The U.S. South, long defined in terms of its differences with the U.S. North, is moving out of this national and oppositional frame of reference into one that is more international and integrative. Likewise, as the South (home to UPS, CNN, KFC, and other international brands) goes global, people are emigrating there from countries like India, Mexico, and Vietnam--and becoming southerners. Much has been made of the demographic and economic aspects of this shift. Until now, though, no one has systematically shown what globalism means to the southern sense of self. Anthropologist James L. Peacock looks at the South of both the present and the past to develop the idea of "grounded globalism," in which global forces and local cultures rooted in history, tradition, and place reverberate against each other in mutually sustaining and energizing ways. Peacock's focus is on a particular part of the world; however, his model is widely relevant: "Some kind of grounding in locale is necessary to human beings." Grounded Globalism draws on perspectives from fields as diverse as ecology, anthropology, religion, and history to move us beyond the model, advanced by such scholars as C. Vann Woodward, that depicts the South as a region paralyzed by the burden of its past. Peacock notes that, while globalism may lift old burdens, it may at the same time impose new ones. He also maintains that earlier regional identities have not been replaced by the rootless cosmopolitanism of cyberspace or other abstracted systems. Attachments to place remain, even as worldwide markets erase boundaries and flatten out differences and distinctions among nations. Those attachments exert their own pressures back on globalism, says Peacock, with subtle strengths we should not discount.
Empire and Film
Lee Grieveson,Colin MacCabe
Author : Lee Grieveson,Colin MacCabe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838715557
Empire and Film by Lee Grieveson,Colin MacCabe Pdf
'This important new volume reconstructs the forms of production, distribution and exhibition of films made in and about the colonies. It then ties them to wider theoretical issues about film and liberalism, spectacle and political economy, representation and rule. The result is one of the first volumes to examine how imperial rule is intimately tied to the emergence of documentary as a form and, indeed, how the history of cinema is at the same time the history of Empire.' BRIAN LARKIN, Barnard College 'This superb collection of new scholarship shows how cinema both communicated and aided the imperialist agenda throughout the twentieth century. In doing so, it shows film can be understood as one of the tools of empire, as much as the technology of weaponry or modes of administration: a means of education and indoctrination in the colonies and at home.' TOM GUNNING, University of Chicago At its height in 1919, the British Empire claimed 58 countries, 400 million subjects, and 14 million square miles of ground. Empire and Film brings together leading international scholars to examine the integral role cinema played in the control, organisation, and governance of this diverse geopolitical space. The essays reveal the complex interplay between the political and economic control essential to imperialism and the emergence and development of cinema in the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century. Contributors address how the production, distribution and exhibition of film were utilised by state and industrial and philanthropic institutions to shape the subject positions of coloniser and colonised; to demarcate between 'civilised' and 'primitive' and codify difference; and to foster a political economy of imperialism that was predicated on distinctions between core and periphery. The generic forms of colonial cinema were, consequently, varied: travelogues mapped colonial spaces; actuality films re-presented spectacles of royal authority and imperial conquest and conflict; home movies rendered colonial self-representation; state-financed newsreels and documentaries fostered political and economic control and the 'education' of British and colonial subjects; philanthropic and industrial organisations sponsored films to expand Western models of capitalism; British and American film companies made films of imperial adventure. These films circulated widely in Britain and the empire, and were sustained through the establishment of imperial networks of distribution and exhibition, including in particular innovative mobile exhibition circuits and non-theatrical spaces like schools, museums and civic centres. Empire and Film is a significant revision to the historical and conceptual frameworks of British cinema history, and is a major contribution to the history of cinema as a global form that emerged amid, and in dialogue with, the global flows of imperialism. The book is produced in conjunction with a major website housing freely available digitised archival films and materials relating to British colonial cinema, www.colonialfilm.org.uk, and a companion volume entitled Film and the End of Empire.
Changing Identities in Modern Southeast Asia
David J. Banks
Author : David J. Banks
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110809930
Changing Identities in Modern Southeast Asia by David J. Banks Pdf
Our Man in Malaya
Margaret Shennan
Author : Margaret Shennan
Publisher : Monsoon Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789814423878
Our Man in Malaya by Margaret Shennan Pdf
The career of John Davis was inextricably and paradoxically intertwined with that of Chin Peng, the leader of the Malayan Communist Party and the man who was to become Britain’s chief enemy in the long Communist struggle for the soul of Malaya. When the Japanese invaded Malaya during WWII, John Davis escaped to Ceylon, sailing 1,700 miles in a Malay fishing boat, before planning the infiltration of Chinese intelligence agents and British officers back into the Malayan peninsula. With the support of Chin Peng and the cooperation of the Malayan Peoples Anti-Japanese Army, Davis led SOE Force 136 into Japanese-occupied Malaya where he operated from camps deep in the jungle with Freddy Spencer Chapman and fellow covert agents. Yet Davis was more than a wartime hero. Following the war, he was heavily involved in Malayan Emergency affairs: squatter control, the establishment of New Villages and, vitally, of tracking down and confronting his old adversary Chin Peng and the communist terrorists. Historian and biographer Margaret Shennan, born and raised in Malaya and an expert on the British in pre-independence Malaysia, tells the extraordinary, untold story of John Davis, CBE, DSO, an iconic figure in Malaya’s colonial history. Illustrated with Davis’ personal photographs and featuring correspondence between Davis and Chin Peng, this is a story which truly deserves to be told.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 874 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006281096
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf
Includes Part 1, Number 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (July - December)
The House at the Edge of the Jungle
Mary Morgan
Author : Mary Morgan
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429978293
The House at the Edge of the Jungle by Mary Morgan Pdf
When Victor Cartwright is sent to Malaya on a business trip, he invites his sister, Isabel, to go with him. Isabel, haunted by memories of her childhood in the jungle, has always longed to return to the country where she and Victor were born. She was six years old and Victor a baby when they were evacuated back to England just hours before Malaya fell to the Japanese in 1942. But their parents were left behind, their fate never known. While Victor accepts that their parents met the same end as many others in those last days of the Empire, Isabel is sure there is more to the story. In Kuala Lumpur, on a visit to the house where they lived before the Japanese came, the house Isabel has dreamed of for so long, she begins to recall those dim and distant days. The house is full of ghosts for her, exotic and troubling, and when Victor meets with an accident there, Isabel is convinced it holds some terrible secret. She sets off alone to explore the enigma of her parents's lives, and through Oliver Bailey, an Englishman who once knew them, and an even more surprising figure from the past, she finally unravels the long hidden mysteries. Mary Morgan's The House at the Edge of the Jungle is a fascinating tale of past and present.
Massacre in Malaya
Christopher Hale
Author : Christopher Hale
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750951814
Massacre in Malaya by Christopher Hale Pdf
The Malayan Emergency (1948–60) was the longest war waged by British and Commonwealth forces in the twentieth century. Fought against communist guerrillas in the jungles of Malaya, this undeclared ‘war without a name’ had a powerful and covert influence on American strategy in Vietnam. Many military historians still consider theEmergency an exemplary, even inspiring, counterinsurgency conflict.Massacre in Malaya draws on recently released files from British archives, as well as eyewitness accounts from both the government forces and communist fighters, to challenge this view. It focuses on the notorious ‘Batang Kali Massacre’ – known as ‘Britain’s My Lai’ – that took place in December, 1948, and reveals that British tactics in Malaya were more ruthless than many historians concede. Counterinsurgency in Malaya, as in Kenya during the same period, depended on massive resettlement programmes and ethnic cleansing, indiscriminate aerial bombing and ruthless exploitation of aboriginal peoples, the Orang Asli. The Emergency was a discriminatory war. In Malaya, the British built a brutal and pervasive security state – and bequeathed it to modern Malaysia. The ‘Malayan Emergency’ was a bitterly fought war that still haunts the present.
The Legendary American
William Warren
Author : William Warren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Americans
ISBN : UOM:39015002973348
The Legendary American by William Warren Pdf
Kinta Valley
Salma Nasution Khoo,Abdur-Razzaq Lubis
Author : Salma Nasution Khoo,Abdur-Razzaq Lubis
Publisher : Areca Books
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Development economics
ISBN : 9834211309
Kinta Valley by Salma Nasution Khoo,Abdur-Razzaq Lubis Pdf
Books and Bookmen
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1026 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Books
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015541035
Books and Bookmen by Anonim Pdf
Messing With Your Mind
Ian Burns
Author : Ian Burns
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780994597656
Messing With Your Mind by Ian Burns Pdf
Four women murderers? Can you carry two contradictory thoughts in your mind at the same time and still tie your shoelaces? What about three, four, five, six...? What would you do for $20 million? $60 million? Does doing something good justify doing something bad? Was the vastly experienced and decorated detective really responsible? Can you work it out? Is there a plot or is it a plot? Is it possible to work it out? When everything comes together and is fully explained, will you know what happened? Or will you find that have you a bout of Depersonalisation Disorder? Cognitive dissonance... Dammit. Why don't you just ignore all this ? relax, open your autobiography of Sigmund Freud and let me mess with your mind?