Book Review: Richard Stubbs, Hearts and Minds in Guerriila Warfare: The Malayan Emergency 1948-1960.
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THE SARAWAK MUSEUM JOURNAL |
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Title :
Book Review: Richard Stubbs, Hearts and Minds in Guerriila Warfare: The Malayan Emergency 1948-1960. |
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Author :
AVM Horton |
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Abstract:
Richard Stubbs, Hearts and Minds in Guerriila Warfare: The Malayan Emergency 1948-1960 (OUP, Singapore, 1989; xiv + 286pp: hbk; ISBN 0-19-588908-8; map, bibliography, index). Professor Stubbs of Toronto University has been researching the history of the Malayan Emergency (1948-1960) for longer than the original war lasted. His knowledge of the archives is extensive, his reading vast. He has also held discussions both with participants in the actual events and with scholars. The result is probably the mostst authoritative work on the subject since Anthony Short’s classic study was published In 1975.1 Fair play is given to all parties to the conflict, not forgetting those caught up in the middle. The incisive analysis is exquisitely nuanced. The book also benefits from a powerful theme (possible defeat Into total victory, from the State's point of view). Consideration is shown for the reader, moreover: hence each chapter has an introduction and conclusion summarizing the main points, which are then all tied together at the end of the volume. In a short review It would be difficult to do full justice to a three hundred page book as closely-argued as this one. The best that can be done, perhaps, is to highlightsome of the main themes. The principal objective of Professor Stubbs here is to place the 'shooting war’ between the Malayan Government and the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) within a broader context. The author identified, in particular,a need for "a review of the Emergency which detailed the full scope of the Government's 'hearts and minds' strategy and the impact of both Government and MCP policies – including administrative, security, political, economic and social policies – on what I [Professor Stubbs] considered to be the key factor In any guerrilla war, the sympathies, allegiances and actions of the general population" (page vii).
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| DOI: XXXX |
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How to cite:
Aishah Edris and Bibi Aminah Abdul Ghani. (1992). The Languages of the Sociocultural Environment and other Languages on the Bintulu Dialect: An Overview. The Sarawak Museum Journal, XLIII (64): 343-355 |
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