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As empires fell : the life and times of Lee Hau-Shik, the first Finance Minister of Malaya /
To understand how independence was gained for a politically complex country such as Malaysia, and how its structure took form requires familiarity with the key players involved. More importantly, only by locating these actors within the changing socio-political context in which they specifically liv...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Singapore :
ISEAS Publishing,
2020.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | To understand how independence was gained for a politically complex country such as Malaysia, and how its structure took form requires familiarity with the key players involved. More importantly, only by locating these actors within the changing socio-political context in which they specifically lived does their influence both before and after the birth of the country become clear. Having written potent biographies about Malaysian and Singapore leaders such as Ismail Abdul Rahman, the Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia who died in 1973, Goh Keng Swee, the economic architect and one of the found. |
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| Notas: | "ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute." |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9789814881456 9814881457 |