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A Bibliography of Malay and Arabic Periodicals 1876-1941 - W.Roff (ed)
A Bibliography of Malay and Arabic Periodicals... Published in the Straits Settlements and Peninsular Malay States... 1876-1941... -... W.R Roff (ed)... This useful annotated list covers nearly 200 periodicals published mainly in Malay, with a few in English that were devoted to Malay concerns, between 1876 and 1941. The...
Price: $42.00
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A Curious Life for a Lady: The Story of Isabella Bird - Pat Barr
A Curious Life for a Lady:... The Story of Isabella Bird... -... Pat Barr... This is the travel biography of Isabella Bird, the author of The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither, who spent much of her first fourty years of her life as a pious Victorian parson's daughter studying hymns...
Price: $13.00
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A History of Malaya - J. Kennedy
A History of Malaya... by... J. Kennedy... For many years this was the standard text book on Malaysian history and could still be said to be as good a place to start as any. However, like too many books of this period, it takes history as beginning around about 1400...
Price: $26.00
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A History of The Educational Policy of The Straits Settlements - DD Chelliah
A History of The Educational Policy... of... The Straits Settlements... by... DD Chelliah... This is a published thesis on the educational development in Malaya which grew from the system in Singapore established under the influence of Stamford Raffles. The thesis is divided into five sections: historical settings, influences, establishment of...
Price: $97.00
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A Map of Trengganu - Awang Goneng
A Map of Trengganu... by... Awang Goneng... New. In a follow-up to his best selling, Growing Up in Trengganu, the author now takes us on a tour of his native area, marvelling at its past and trying to come to terms with its present. A book packed full of...
Price: $13.00
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A Servant of Sarawak - Peter Mooney
A Servant of Sarawak:... Reminiscences of A Crown Counsel in 1950s Borneo... Peter Mooney... New. The author is best known for his distinguished post-independence legal career in Malaysia. However in this book he reminisces about the fascinating early part of his career in Sarawak. It was a time when...
Price: $13.00
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A Short Sketch of the Lives of Francis and William Light - Francis A. Steuart
A Short Sketch of the Lives of Francis and William Light... -... Francis A. Steuart... This is probably the first significant biography of Francis Light, the founder of British interests in Penang and of his son, William, who went on to set up a British colony in Adelaide, Australia. Steuart was...
Price: $30.00
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Administration in the Federated Malay States 1896-1920 - Jagjit Singh Sidhu
Administration in the Federated Malay States 1896-1920... by... Jagit Singh Sindhu... This work's main emphasis is how the gradual creep of British imperial influence from the Treaty of Federation of 1896 to the appointment of Sir Lawrence Guillemard as Governor and High Commissioner in 1920 began to affect the...
Price: $33.00
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An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles - Paul Spencer Sochaczewski
An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles:... Campfire Conversations with... Alfred Russel Wallace on... People and Natue Based on Common Travel in the Malay Archipelago... -... Paul Spencer Sochaczewski... This book provides an account of the Victorian-era explorations of Alfred Russel Wallace through Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia. Wallace caught, skinned and pickled...
Price: $16.00
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Asia in Those Days - Thomas Brandt
Asia in Those Days:... A Glimpse into the Past;... The Social Life of Europeans in Asia... from the 16th through the 19th Centuries... by... Thomas Brandt... New. The book had a limited print run and stock will soon run out. The book will not be reprinted. In this book, by...
Price: $169.00
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Battlefield Guide: The Japanese Conquest of Malaya
Media Masters' Battlefield Guide:... The Japanese Conquest of Malaya... and... Singapore December 1941- February 1942... by... Ralf Modder & Ian Ward... New. This large folding map that not only gives detailed accounts in text and pictures of the principal batlles during the Japanese conquest of Malaysia, but also gives a...
Price: $13.00
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Battlefield Guide: The Japanese Conquest of Malaya (Japanese Version)
Media Masters' Battlefield Guide:... The Japanese Conquest of Malaya... and... Singapore December 1941- February 1942... by... Ralf Modder & Ian Ward... (Japanese Version)... New. This map is in Japanese. This large folding map that not only gives detailed accounts in text and pictures of the principal batlles during the Japanese...
Price: $13.00
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Betwixt & Between - Woo Kam Chau
Betwixt & Between... --... Woo Kam Chau... A novel set in post war Malaya during the Malayan 'Emergency', a period of uncertainty for the Chinese community, trapped between Communist guerillas and a Malay community eager for independence... 475 pages. Weight: 0.7.kg. *On request this book will be sent post...
Price: $13.00
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Blood on the Golden Sands - Lim Kean Siew
Blood on the Golden Sands:... The Memoirs of a Penang Family... by... Lim Kean Siew... Lim Kean Siew was one of Penang's best known lawyers and politicians in the period that led to Malaya's independence. This book starts where the author's previous memoir finished, i.e.at the start of...
Price: $23.00
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Borneo - the Land of River and Palm - Eda Green
Borneo... -... The Land of River and Palm... -... Eda Green... This vivid account of the author's experiences in Borneo was written mainly to recruit more European missionaries to Borneo in the early 20th century. The author describes the history of Borneo and its people and adds some interesting and adventurous stories...
Price: $16.00
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Borneo People - Malcolm MacDonald
Borneo People... -... Malcolm MacDonald... This classic account of the writer's visit to Borneo just around the time of independence includes history, ethnography and anecdote all written in an entertaining style. The book includes 44 black and white illustrations of the country and the people whom the author met. The 376...
Price: $16.00
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Britain, The Brookes and Brunei - Nicholas Tarling
Britain, The Brookes and Brunei... -... Nicholas Tarling... This study covers British contact with Brunei and its successor states from the late 18th century to the beginning of the 20th century. From the outset British policy saw the area mainly as an important part of the jigsaw of relationships that protected...
Price: $161.00
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British Malaya, 1824-1867 - LA Mills
British Malaya, 1824-1867... (Edited for Reprinting with a bibliography of wirtings in English on British Malaya, 1786-1867 By C. M. Turbull and a New Introductory chapter on European Influence on the Malay Peninsula 1511-1586 By D. K. Bassett)... by... L.A. Mills... This is the second edition...
Price: $43.00
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British North Borneo - Owen Rutter
British North Borneo... by... Owen Rutter... The author was an employee of the North Borneo Chartered Company, a private enterprise, which controlled present day state of Sabah from 1882 to the Japanese Invasion in 1942. In this book he sets out what he sees as the effects of the first...
Price: $49.00
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British Policy in the Malay Peninsula 1880-1910 - Eunice Thio
British Policy in the Malay Peninsula 1880-1910:... The Southern and Central States... -... Eunice Thio... Thio based her research for this book on this period's British Government documents that were gradually released to the public in the 1950s and 1960s. Comparing these sources with private and public sources already available...
Price: $43.00
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British Policy in the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago
British Policy in the Malay Peninsula... and... Archipelago 1824-1871... by... Nicholas Tarling... Working from documents of the time, the author describes and analyses British policy towards the various political forces in the region. One particular feature of the documents is the light they throw on the personality of James...
Price: $39.00
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Bureaucratic Transition in Malaya - Robert O. Tilman
Bureaucratic Transition in Malaya... by... Robert O. Tilman... This interesting study traces the development of the civil service in Malaya from a structure set up with British management through to the indigenisation of the service and its emergence as the backbone of the newly independent government. The contents of the...
Price: $20.00
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Captain Speedy of Larut - JM Gullick
Captain Speedy of Larut... Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society Volume XXVI,... Part 3 - November 1953... by... JM Gullick... This short biography illuminates the impact of one of the British colonial administration's more colourful characters on Perak in the late 19th century. Speedy, as Assisstant Resident...
Price: $36.00
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