Through a study of Malaysia, Taming Babel examines how empires and postcolonial nation-states struggle to govern multilingual and polyglot subjects. Num Pages: 280 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FMM; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 22. Weight in Grams: 538. . 2016. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. hardcover. . . . .

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Titre: Taming Babel: Language in the Making of Malaysia
�diteur: Cambridge University Press
Date de parution: 2016
Langue: anglais
ISBN � 10 chiffres: 1107148537
ISBN � 13 chiffres: 9781107148536
Reliure: Couverture rigide
�dition: Edition originale
�tat de l'article: New
�tat de la jaquette: Jaquette

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Through a study of Malaysia, Taming Babel examines how empires and postcolonial nation-states struggle to govern multilingual and polyglot subjects.

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Rachel Leow is a university lecturer in Modern East Asian History at the University of Cambridge. She received two full Ph.D. scholarships from the Bill and Melinda Gates Scholarship Foundation and from the Tunku Abdul Rahman Scholarship Fund at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. She was subsequently appointed as a Prize Fellow for the inaugural Prize Fellowships in Economics, Politics and History at Harvard University, Massachusetts.

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