Name: The Peasant Robbers of Kedah, 1900-1929: Historical and Folk Perceptions (East Asian Historical Monographs)
Author: Cheah Boon Kheng
ISBN: 9780195888829

by Cheah Boon Kheng

The Peasant Robbers of Kedah, 1900-1929: Historical and Folk Perceptions (East Asian Historical Monographs)

by Cheah Boon Kheng

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ISBN-13: 9780195888829
ISBN: 0195888820
Publication Date: 1988
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated

AUTHOR

Cheah Boon Kheng

SUMMARY

In this account of peasant banditry and the Malaysian society in which it flourished, the author draws on colonial, literary, and oral sources to present a social history of rural Kedah, particularly the factors that produced rural crime and the extent to which the bandit heroes symbolized rural protest.Cheah Boon Kheng is the author of 'The Peasant Robbers of Kedah, 1900-1929: Historical and Folk Perceptions (East Asian Historical Monographs)', published 1988 under ISBN 9780195888829 and ISBN 0195888820.

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