New perspectives and research on Malaysian history essays on Malaysian historiography

• Corporate Author: Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
• Other Authors: Cheah, Boon Kheng (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Published: [Kuala Lumpur] MBRAS 2007
• Series: Monograph
• Subjects: Historiography > Malaysia; Malaysia > Historiography
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• Physical Description: vii, 270 pages 22 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references
• ISBN: 9789679948400

This book deals with the current research interests, methods, thinking and trend in Malaysian historical writing. The individual essays focus not only on new historical sources and methodologies, but also on debates between different schools of Malaysian historians on conceptual issues and on ways to reconstruct the Malaysian past. For a long time, the primary object of Malaysian historical studies has been the nation-state, but some of the historians in this volume now argue that local history, social history, economic history and the role of women, minorities and marginalized groups like trishaw riders are equally important concerns within Malaysia's socially diverse and multi-ethnic.