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Taming Babel: Language in the Making of Malaysia Leow, Rachel (University of Cambridge)
Taming Babel: Language in the Making of Malaysia
Leow, Rachel (University of Cambridge)
Taming Babel examines the role of language in the making of modern postcolonial Asian nations. Focusing on one of the most linguistically diverse territories in the British Empire, it explores the profound anxieties generated by a century of struggles to govern the polyglot subjects of British Malaya and postcolonial Malaysia.
288 pages, 2 maps
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | July 14, 2016 |
| ISBN13 | 9781107148536 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 280 |
| Dimensions | 236 × 162 × 22 mm · 540 g |
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