Multiethnic elites and the management of tropical heat in colonial Malaya, circa 1870s-1930s
This article considers the responses of multiethnic urban elites to living with tropical heat in colonial Malaya by analysing attitudes towards the meteorological study of temperature, commercial cold storage and hill stations. A transcolonial and transimperial approach is used to illustrate that in...
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2024
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| Online Access: | https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/223 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/cis_research/article/1222/viewcontent/MultiethnicElites_TropicalHeat_Malaya_Oct_2023_av.pdf |
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