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Author : Kim Hong Tan
Publisher : Areca Books
ISBN 13 : 9789834283476
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (834 download)
Download or read book 檳榔嶼華人史圖錄 written by Kim Hong Tan and published by Areca Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ric Francis
Publisher : Areca Books
ISBN 13 : 9789834283407
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (834 download)
Download or read book Penang Trams, Trolleybuses & Railways written by Ric Francis and published by Areca Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Which city once had the smallest trolley-bus in the world? Where do you find the first funicular railway in Southeast Asia? How do you recognize a trolley-bus pole? Where is Tramway Road?" "With over 100 old photographs, maps and illustrations, this book gives an overview of the various forms of public transport used in George Town from 1880s to 1963, and the role this transport played in the development of the growth of George Town and Penang." "Penang was one of the first urban centres in Southeast Asia to operate steam trams, horse trams, electric trams and trolleybuses. When the Municipal Commission established its own electric supply, it took over the tram service and started the electric trams in George Town in 1906. This gave the local population excellent public transport around George Town, with one line going up to Ayer Itam. In the late 1920s, the Municipality replaced trams with trolley-buses, experimenting for a while with re-conditioned double-deckers from London Transport!" "The Municipality also operated two railways - firstly, the Penang Hill Railway which was considered an engineering marvel when it was first built, and secondly, the electric railway which transported supplies and tin ingots for Penang's foremost smelting works."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Neil Khor
Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 : 9971694239
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (716 download)
Download or read book Penang and Its Region written by Neil Khor and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its beginnings in the late eighteenth century, the vibrant colonial port of Penang attracted a diverse range of peoples, enabled pioneering commercial enterprises, and fomented inter-ethnic collaboration and inter-cultural borrowings. The island came to be known as the 'Pearl of the Orient', and for many travellers it was their first port of call in Southeast Asia. In the early nineteenth century, Singapore displaced Penang in international trade, but the island remained a major focus of regional trade. For this reason, the story of Penang's relations with the Malay Peninsula and other parts of Southeast Asia reveal a great deal about conditions within the region.
Author : Jin Seng Cheah
Publisher : Editions Didier Millet
ISBN 13 : 9671061710
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Penang 500 Early Postcards written by Jin Seng Cheah and published by Editions Didier Millet. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the late 19th century, Penang had become a thriving port trading in rubber, spices and tin. Its prosperity attracted immigrants from around the world and the island was a rich melting pot of Chinese, Indians, Malays, Europeans and many other peoples. The postcards reproduced in this book are drawn from the huge collection of Penang-born Professor Cheah Jin Seng, the author of Singapore: 500 Early Postcards, Malaya: 500 Early Postcards, Perak: 300 Early Postcards and Selangor: 300 Early Postcards.This title in the Early Postcards series will present a diverse array of picture postcards of Penang -- including of its capital George Town, now a World Heritage site -- from the 1890s to the 1970s.
Author : Donald L. Horowitz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520342054
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Deadly Ethnic Riot written by Donald L. Horowitz and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald L. Horowitz's comprehensive consideration of the structure and dynamics of ethnic violence is the first full-scale, comparative study of what the author terms the deadly ethnic riot—an intense, sudden, lethal attack by civilian members of one ethnic group on civilian members of another ethnic group. Serious, frequent, and destabilizing, these events result in large numbers of casualties. Horowitz examines approximately 150 such riots in about fifty countries, mainly in Asia, Africa, and the former Soviet Union, as well as fifty control cases. With its deep and thorough scholarship, incisive analysis, and profound insights, The Deadly Ethnic Riot will become the definitive work on its subject. Furious and sadistic, the riot is nevertheless directed against a precisely specified class of targets and conducted with considerable circumspection. Horowitz scrutinizes target choices, participants and organization, the timing and supporting conditions for the violence, the nature of the events that precede the riot, the prevalence of atrocities during the violence, the location and diffusion of riots, and the aims and effects of riot behavior. He finds that the deadly ethnic riot is a highly patterned but emotional event that tends to occur during times of political uncertainty. He also discusses the crucial role of rumor in triggering riots, the surprisingly limited role of deliberate organization, and the striking lack of remorse exhibited by participants. Horowitz writes clearly and eloquently without compromising the complexity of his subject. With impressive analytical skill, he takes up the important challenge of explaining phenomena that are at once passionate and calculative.
Author : Faridah Abdul Rashid
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1477159967
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (771 download)
Download or read book Biography of the Early Malay Doctors 1900-1957 Malaya and Singapore written by Faridah Abdul Rashid and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-11-21 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I really applaud your efforts. It's really difficult to do a book like that.- WAZIRThanks again for your immense work, my family and I are indeed extremely grateful.- AZLANYour effort in writing about the early Muslim doctors is very commendable and would be good for present and future generations to read about.- TAHIRYou are doing valuable work by filling in the gaps in our history. Iwish more of our retirees would impart their memories to repositoriesof knowledge such as the USM.- TAWFIK
Author : François Ruegg
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643800622
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (438 download)
Download or read book De Palerme À Penang written by François Ruegg and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2010 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles collected here trace the intellectual journey of Christian Giordano, head of the Social Anthropology Institute at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. The reader will be transported to places Giordano has explored, loved, or merely visited, from Sicily to Malaysia, from Switzerland to Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Each article illustrates a facet of his work. The journey starts with biographical sketches and continues through different fields of Political Anthropology (Citizenship, Multiculturalism, Ethnicity, Rural Studies, Trust, Postcolonial Studies, Honour). It ends with reflections on the use and abuse of Anthropology.
Author : Alvin Rabushka
Publisher : Hoover Press
ISBN 13 : 9780817933531
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (335 download)
Download or read book Race and Politics in Urban Malaya written by Alvin Rabushka and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anoma Pieris
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824833546
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes written by Anoma Pieris and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2009-02-26 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the nineteenth century, the colonial Straits Settlements of Singapore, Penang, and Melaka were established as free ports of British trade in Southeast Asia and proved attractive to large numbers of regional migrants. Following the abolishment of slavery in 1833, the Straits government transported convicts from the East India Company’s Indian presidencies to the settlements as a source of inexpensive labor. The prison became the primary experimental site for the colonial plural society and convicts were graduated by race and the labor needed for urban construction. Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes investigates how a political system aimed at managing ethnic communities in the larger material context of the colonial urban project was first imagined and tested through the physical segregation of the colonial prison. It relates the story of a city, Singapore, and a contemporary city-state whose plural society has its origins in these historical divisions. A description of the evolution of the ideal plan for a plural city across the three settlements is followed by a detailed look at Singapore’s colonial prison. Chapters trace the prison’s development and its dissolution across the urban landscape through the penal labor system. The author demonstrates the way in which racial politics were inscribed spatially in the division of penal facilities and how the map of the city was reconfigured through convict labor. Later chapters describe penal resistance first through intimate stories of penal life and then through a discussion of organized resistance in festival riots. Eventually, the plural city ideal collapsed into the hegemonic urban form of the citadel, where a quite different military vision of the city became evident. Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes is a fascinating and thoroughly original study in urban history and the making of multiethnic society in Singapore. It will compel readers to rethink the ways in which colonial urban history, postcolonial urbanism, and governance have been theorized by scholars and represented by governments.
Author : Gwynn Jenkins
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3825813665
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (258 download)
Download or read book Contested Space written by Gwynn Jenkins and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2008 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 2007, the month when Malaysia celebrated 50 years of independence from colonial rule, two historic cities on the Straits of Malacca were assessed for inclusion on the UNESCO World Heritage List. This book explores the cultural, social and physical history of one city and its multi ethnic population, tracing its urban evolution, the cultures of its population and the reflection of their cultures in their architecture and urban forms. It also investigates national and international influences - including those of heritage conservation bodies, and examines their impact on cultural perceptions, in order to unravel the identity reconstructions that have taken place over the nation's first 50 years.
Author : Malaysia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Malaysia Official Year Book written by Malaysia and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004283900
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Hinterlands and Commodities written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Hinterlands and Commodities: Place, Space, Time and the Political Economic Development of Asia over the Long Eighteenth Century, well-known economic and social historians examine important questions concerning temporal and spatial relationships among central places, hinterlands, commodities, and political economic developments in Asia and the Global economy over the long eighteenth century. These timely essays engage hinterlands and commodities providing novel foci on historical impacts maritime trade on political economic developments involving place, space, and time in Asia, thereby furnishing historical background for current conditions. They contribute to discourse concerning historical interactions among indigenous Asian merchant activities and European commercial counterparts. Contributors are: George Bryan Souza, Dennis O. Flynn, Marie A. Lee, Ghulam A. Nadri, Bhaswati Bhattacharya, Tsukasa Mizushima, Tomotaka Kawamura, Atushi Ota, Ryuto Shimada, and Ei Murakami.
Author : Yi Li
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137519002
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Chinese in Colonial Burma written by Yi Li and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-25 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using previously unexplored archives from colonial institutions and individuals, and primary materials produced by the Burmese Chinese, this comprehensive study investigates over a century of history of the Burmese Chinese under British colonial rule. Due to the peculiar position of Burma in the British imperial world and the Southeast Asian Chinese network, the Chinese community had a unique experience in a Southeast Asian colony governed by Europeans with an India-based system. This book reveals, through everyday life experience, prominent community figures, and milestone events, the internal rivalry and integration among different regional groups within the community, and the general impressions it left in contemporary observations and communal memories. The book also traces historical roots of some unsolved ethnic issues in present-day Myanmar.
Author : Sarnia Hayes Hoyt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Old Penang written by Sarnia Hayes Hoyt and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1786, Penang was part of the Muslim state of Kedah. Following the arrival of English trader Francis Light, it underwent both a change of name, to Prince of Wales Island, and status, becoming a major mercantile and shipping post, and the springboard for British expansion into South-East Asia. Illustrated throughout with contemporary paintings and drawings, this volume traces Penang's history from the 18th century to the 1930s, and fully captures its natural beauty and cosmopolitan atmosphere.
Author : Su Lin Lewis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107108330
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Cities in Motion written by Su Lin Lewis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-19 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A social history of cosmopolitanism in Southeast Asia's ethnically diverse port cities, seen within the global context of the interwar era.
Author : Meredith L. Weiss
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317629590
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Malaysia written by Meredith L. Weiss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Malaysia offers a broad, analytical survey of Malaysia. It provides a comprehensive survey of significant topics in Malaysian politics, economy, and society today, focussing on issues, institutions, and trends. It is divided into four thematic sections, which are all introduced by the editor: • Domestic politics • Economics • Social policy and social development • International relations and security. The volume brings together an international team of experts: an interdisciplinary mix of forty contributors from Malaysia and elsewhere, including many of the leading specialists on Malaysian affairs. The chapters included in the volume form an accessible and fascinating window onto contemporary Malaysia. They each introduce a different aspect of the Malaysian polity, economy, or society, offering both historical perspective and a current assessment or investigation. Designed for general readers and specialists alike, chapters may be read individually -- each stands on its own -- or conjointly. Up-to-date, interdisciplinary, and academically rigorous, the Handbook will be of interest to students, academics, policymakers, and others in search of reliable information on Malaysian politics, economics, and society.
Author : Francis E. Hutchinson
Publisher : Penang Institute
ISBN 13 : 9814379875
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)
Download or read book Catching the Wind written by Francis E. Hutchinson and published by Penang Institute. This book was released on 2012 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: However impressive the economic success of Penang has been over the past four decades, structural conditions in the region call for a fundamental reconfiguration of this Malaysian state’s competitive advantage. In the 1970s, the ageing entrepôt transformed itself into a manufacturing hub for the electronics industry and a well-known tourist site. This outward-looking model of economic growth has underpinned Penang’s economic development up until the present. The question that now arises is whether Penang’s present mode of development will continue to be effective, or whether it will have to transform itself. First, Malaysia in general, and Penang in particular are caught in a middle-income trap. Second, while the evolving weight of the global economy is shifting towards Asia, many of its emerging powers are competing with Penang in areas where it formerly excelled. Third, Penang is a state within a federation, and its capital, George Town, is a secondary city. Neither can rival Kuala Lumpur in terms of size or facilities, and thus must offer investors other attributes. Effectively meeting these challenges while retaining Penang’s vibrant and living culture are the key issues that are dealt with in this second volume of the Penang Studies Series.
