They call it “creative abdication.” In Malaya, Britain’s rubber-rich colony, last week the phrase seemed for once appropriate. Four years ago the British promised Malaya self-determination ...

British rule in Malaya is of especial interest to Americans ... In justification of having added 15,000 square miles of Malayan territory to the British Empire, "at a preposterously early age," Sir ...

The decades in between have not faded Lim’s memories of the period when then-Malaya was a colony in the waning days of the British Empire. Attempting to slow the sun setting on its colony in ...

The End of Empire and the Making of Malaya by T.N.Harper, (Cambridge University Press, 1999) Australia and the British Embrace: the End of the Imperial Ideal by S.Ward, (Melbourne University Press ...

Malaya, Kenya, Cyprus, and Aden, among others. Assembling so many examples spread widely across space and time allows Elkins to build an impressively damning account of the British Empire.