From Majapahit to Putrajaya searching for another Malaysia

The essays in this collection - a real bunga rampai, a wonderfully varied bouquet of flowering polemics - are the work, and demonstrate the working, of a singular mind, one that is recognizably Malay and Malaysian, grounded in this country and its historical trajectory, yet elegantly cosmopolitan. T...

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Main Author: Farish A. Noor (Farish Ahmad Noor) 1967- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Kuala Lumpur Silverfishbooks 2005
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Call Number :DS 597.2 .F368 2005

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