Government and Society in Malaysia: Commemoration and Conflict from Jonson to Wordsworth

Harold Crouch narrates with ease and authority on a subject matter that he had observed for more than a decade from within. He frames his analysis on a simple but powerful assumption that Malaysian politics and society operates essentially on the basis of a 'moving equilibrium', combining hormoniusly and effectively conflict and consensus in a continuosly reconstituted continuum. Watch not only for the main text, but the important revealing footnotes, too.