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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815258203321

Autore

Clutterbuck Richard L

Titolo

Conflict and violence in Singapore and Malaysia, 1945-1983 / / Richard Clutterbuck

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Routledge, 2018

ISBN

0-429-71789-X

0-429-03499-7

0-429-69788-0

Edizione

[Revised edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (412 pages) : illustrations, maps

Disciplina

959.504

Soggetti

HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia

Singapore Politics and government 1945-1963

Singapore Politics and government 1963-1965

Singapore Politics and government 1965-1990

Malaysia Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [382]-398) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Is there a risk that Malaysia's racial mixture and its weighted political and economic structures could again explode into the kind of violence which, in 1969, was only just prevented from setting the whole country on fire? And has Singapore's success been bought at a price in civil liberties too high for its health in the future? Four years of th