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Author : Vincent Hiap Khian Foo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Sarawak
ISBN : UOM:39015051962788
Author : W. A. Laxon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Transportation
ISBN : UOM:39015062474724
Author : Ooi Keat Gin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 687 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538108857
Malaysia is one of the most intriguing countries in Asia in many respects. It consists of several distinct areas, not only geographically but ethnically as well; along with Malays and related groups, the country has a very large Indian and Chinese population. The spoken languages obviously vary at home, although Bahasa Malaysia is the official language and nearly everyone speaks English. There is also a mixture of religions, with Islam predominating among the Malays and others, Hinduism and Sikhism among the Indians, mainly Daoism and Confucianism among the Chinese, but also some Christians as well as older indigenous beliefs in certain places. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Malaysia contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Malaysia.
Author : Ian W. Shaw
Publisher : Macmillan Publishers Aus.
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781742622316
When Singapore fell dramatically to the Japanese on 15 February 1942, hundreds of people scrambled to the docks to flee. Amongst the evacuees were 65 Australian nurses who boarded a coastal freighter named the Vyner Brooke. They only made it as far as the waters off Muntok Island near Sumatra. There, Japanese bombers sank the small ship. Those who survived the sinking drifted for up to three days before making landfall on one of the many beaches on Muntok. A group of about 60 shipwreck survivors, including 22 nurses, gathered at Radji Beach. They voted to surrender to the Japanese rather than slowly starve to death, but the Japanese patrol that found them did not accept their surrender. Instead, it divided the Europeans into three groups and killed them all in turn. The Australian nurses were in the third group, and 21 of them died in a hail of bullets as they walked, abreast, into the sea. Miraculously, there was one survivor, Vivian Bullwinkel, who brought the truth about this appalling atrocity to light, and who went on to experience the internment camps, starvation and disease that took away many of her friends. On Radji Beach tells the story of the 65 nurses from the Vyner Brooke: their service in Singapore and on the Malay peninsula, their desperate voyage to escape capture by the Japanese, and their courage, compassion, ingenuity and fortitude in the unthinkable events that followed.
Author : C. D. Cowan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 9780415526111
First published in 1964, The Economic Development of South-East Asia: Studies in economic history and political economy contains eight papers originally written for a study group at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. The papers, edited by Professor C. D. Cowan, are written against a background of economic underdevelopment in large parts of Asia. Economic problems increasingly plagued the governments of Asia after the Second World War, and while Western governments were willing to help foster economic development, relations with Asian governments were somewhat hindered by the heritage of their colonial past. Problems also related to the growth of traditional trading ports and export crops, and to the importation of colonial regimes, western funds and skills in the nineteenth century. Such developments come under the loosely generalised concept of imperialism, with its strongly emotional overtones, whose use impedes the objective assessment and analysis of facts. While we understand a good deal about conditions of economic growth in the West, much of what has fostered or retarded growth in other parts of the world remains less clear.
Author : John Strawson
Publisher : Canelo
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781804364383
“Who Dares Wins”. The world’s most legendary special forces unit - and a history of action you will barely believe. This is the extraordinary, secretive story of how the SAS evolved from an unconventional handful of soldiers, operating behind enemy lines in North Africa in 1941, into the world’s most disciplined and respected professionals, up to their daring and dangerous exploits in the Iranian Embassy siege and the Falkland Islands. We see them during the latter years of the Second World War, in the numerous post-war security campaigns in the Middle and Far East, and in the difficult circumstances of urban terrorism. Above all, we see how the regiment’s founder David Stirling’s emphasis on The Man has not changed at all. Here indeed are men who dare to excel - and in General Strawson they have a worthy chronicler of their remarkable activities both in wartime and in the “savage wars of peace”. In the first history of the SAS ever published, we see their unique courage on full display - a courage that changed the British Army, and the world.
Author : W. J. Chater
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Names, Geographical
ISBN : UOM:39015011496455
Author : Sarawak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Sarawak
ISBN : OSU:32437011598592
Author : Malcolm Falkus
Publisher : Springer
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349114764
For more than a century Blue Funnel ships, managed from Liverpool by Alfred Holt and Company, held a unique place in Britain's shipping industry. Starting as pioneers of cargo liners between Liverpool and the Far East in 1866, the Company maintained a fine reputation built on its vessels, crews, shore staff, and management. This book traces the origins and evolution of the Line, charting its history through both world wars, its experiences in the great depression of the 1930s, and its vigorous response to the challenge of containerisation in the 1960s. Integrated into the text are discussions of the current roles of agencies and conferences, the singular management structure, and assessments of the parts played by key individuals.
Author : Phin Keong Voon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Chinese
ISBN : 9833908020
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Harbors
ISBN : UOM:39015067724339
Author : Alastair Morrison
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501718809
An officer's first-person account of British colonial disengagement from Sarawak. Morrison explains the daily bureaucracy of colonial life from an inside perspective and details the changes that occurred during his years in Sarawak: the growth and expansion of Communist movements, the emerging modernization of various districts, and the formation of Malaysia.
Author : Poline Bala
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Borneo
ISBN : UOM:39015052348037
Author : A. Kaur
Publisher : Springer
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230377097
An authoritative economic history of Sabah and Sarawak since the 19th century emphasising their distinctive colonial history and the attempts to modernise them since they became part of Malaysia in 1963. They remain dependent on the production and export of a relatively small range of primary products. The considerable scrutiny from environmentalists and international and local pressure groups of timber exports in particular is examined. The book's examination of economic strategy in these states since the 1880s, demonstrates that the roots of the problems in the 1980s lay in policies formulated in the wider context of capitalist economic growth.
Author : Goh Chor Boon
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789814414081
How did imported technology contribute to the development of the colony of Singapore? Who were the main agents of change in this process? Was there extensive transfer and diffusion of Western science and technology into the port-city? How did the people respond to change? Examining areas such as shipping, port development, telegraphs and wireless, urban water supply and sewage disposal, economic botany, electrification, food production and retailing, science and technical education, and health, this book documents the role of technology and, to a smaller extent, science, in the transformation of colonial Singapore before 1940. In doing so, this book hopes to provide a new dimension to the historiography of Singapore from a "science, technology and society" perspective.