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Multiethnic elites and the management of tropical heat in colonial Malaya, circa 1870s–1930s

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posted on 2025-02-04, 03:46 authored by Claire Lowrie, Nicole TaruleviczNicole Tarulevicz, Fiona Williamson, Charmaine H Lam
Abstract: This article considers the responses of multiethnic urban elites to living with tropical heat in colonial Malaya by analysing attitudes towards the meteorological study of temperature, commercial cold storage and hill stations. A transcolonial and transimperial approach is used to illustrate that interest in managing and monitoring temperature was slower to develop in Malaya compared with other tropical colonies. The article also considers how access to methods of ameliorating heat was shaped by colonial hierarchies based on ideas of race and class.

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Search for Safety: A Cultural History Lesson on Food Safety from Singapore : Australian Research Council | DP190100199

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Publication title

Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History

Volume

25

Issue

1

eISSN

1532-5768

ISSN

1532-5768

Department/School

History and Classics

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press

Publication status

  • Published

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