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Inhalt :: Content Online-Service mit Zugang zu handgeschriebenen und gedruckten Primärquellen aus dem britischen Colonial Office, die heute im Nationalarchiv in Kew, Großbritannien, aufbewahrt werden. Die erste Digitalisierungsphase hat den Schwerpunkt Asien und deckt Hongkong, Wei-Hai-Wei, Ceylon, Malaysia, Singapur und Borneo ab. Enthalten sind u.a Korrespondenzen, Berichte, Memoranden und Instruktionen aus der Zeit zwischen 1768 und 1966. Die Quellen dokumentieren die Verwaltung und Herrschaft Großbritanniens über die Länder unter britischer Kolonialherrschaft, ihre internationalen Beziehungen während dieser Zeit sowie die sich wandelnde Demografie und das tägliche Leben ihrer Bewohner. |
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Verlag :: Publisher Gale Cengage |
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Bestellnummer bei digento :: digento order number 108956 |
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Verlagsinformation :: Publisher's information State Papers Online Colonial is a programme digitising the British Colonial Office’s files and documents for researchers across the globe. The Administrators The Colonial Office was formed in 1854. Prior to that colonial affairs were managed by the Secretary of State until 1768 when a dedicated Secretary of State for the Colonies was appointed. This changed in 1782 when the State Paper Office closed and a Home Office and Foreign Office were created. Colonial affairs were managed by the Home Office until 1801, when responsibility transferred to a Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, a post that lasted until 1854 when the two roles were separated, and the Colonial Office became an independent, if under resourced, department.
The Colonial Secretary was supported by a team of civil servants in London, who together supported a network of Governors, Commissioners, and civil servants in the territories. As with any domestic administration, the degree of commitment to, interest in and sympathy for the people they were administering varied from person to person. Some officers were described as “going native” for the degree to which they adopted the local way of life and assimilated into local society. Others had successful careers moving from post to post and up the ranks. The handwritten comments, recommendations, elucidations, or approvals made to the documents reveal the judgements, grasp of the issues, conflicting views, humour, prejudice and sympathies of these officers. The Documents Most researchers will access these documents for what they reveal about the local people of all ranks, their customs, culture, work patterns, agriculture, trade, markets, arts and crafts, skills and learning. Also, for how they were affected by being administered by a remote people speaking another language who imposed new laws, taxes, industries, customs and social structure. This programme starts with Asia. Asia for the Colonial Office meant the British Colonies: Hong Kong, Wei-Hai-Wei, Ceylon, Malaya, Singapore and Borneo. It is their administration and governance, and their relations with surrounding countries in the region and across the globe that are the subject of the documents. The majority of the documents date from the twentieth century and cover the colonial period up to World War II, the war period when the Japanese army occupied most of Southeast Asia, and the ending of colonial rule and development of independent nations as part of the commonwealth or otherwise. Preceding those, however, are important sixteenth to eighteenth century documents from the discovery and engagement with the “East Indies”, but only a small proportion of the total. The remaining materials are the nineteenth century documents of the early days of colonial administration.
These working files bear witness to the two very different sides in the colonial relationship: a British Government whose main priority was the acquisition of commodities, wealth and labour; and the local people living under colonial rule and British-style institutions for law, health, education, policing, defence, agriculture and industry. All of the documents have been imaged in colour, which will enable users to clearly read the
The earliest documents are the British Governments’ correspondence with the East India Company about trade in Asia, the administration and trials of the East India Company, rivalry with the Dutch, the Opium trade, as well as other initiatives in the East such as the first British embassy to China of 1793 to 1794. Later documents cover the development of trade, and administration of the Far East territories. Subjects include control of opium trafficking, rubber production, Kuomintang activities, military administration after the Second World War, planning for reconstruction in the Far Eastern colonies (Borneo, Hong Kong and Malaya), constitutional reform of Hong Kong, reports on prisons, and the effect of closure of British firms in China. These documents, many formerly confidential, record Britain’s administration and governance of these countries, as well as their international relations across the period, the changing demographics, and daily lives of their inhabitants. This colonial history influenced much of the now independent countries today through chosen strategic alliances, institutional structures, and the ongoing repercussions of their colonial legacy. Manuscript series (The National Archives, UK) in Part I include:
Asia, Part II: Singapore, East Malaysia, and Brunei These British Colonial Office files document two hundred years of British engagement with the people and resources of Singapore, Brunei, Labuan, Sarawak, and British North Borneo (now Sabah). Researchers will find insight into Britain’s administration and governance of these countries, their international relations across the period, and the changing demographics and daily life of inhabitants. The documents also showcase how colonial history continues to influence these now-independent countries through chosen strategic alliances, manners of conduct, and institutional structures and how they deal with the repercussions of their colonial legacies today.
Asia, Part III: Malay States, Malaya, and Straits Settlements State Papers Online Colonial: Asia, Part III: Malay States, Malaya, and Straits Settlements is the third instalment of State Papers Online Colonial: Asia, a program to digitise largely the British Colonial Office’s files relating to the former British colonies in East and Southeast Asia.
Within these documents, researchers can trace the history, politics, and culture of British Malaya, including power transfer from local sultans to colonial rule, trade among Malaya, the United Kingdom, and other parts of the world, development of mining and rubber industries, Japanese invasion and occupation during WWII, formation of political parties, communism, Chinese and Indian labour and immigration, the Malayan Emergency, the path toward independence, the establishment of the Federation of Malaya, Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation, and the separation of Malaysia and Singapore. Manuscript series (The National Archives, UK) in Part III include:
Part IV of State Papers Online Colonial: Asia continues Part III by including confidential original correspondence relating to Malaysia and Singapore, as well as a register of out-letters of Federated Malay States, and a collection of post-1940 maps and plans of British Malaya. Also included are several Hong Kong-related collections, such as selected files from the Colonial Office and the Cabinet Office, correspondence and papers from the Prime Minister’s Office, and registered files from the Ministry of Defence and the British Council. Together these records complement earlier parts of State Papers Online Colonial: Asia by including documents that shed light on the history of Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong from the mid-nineteenth century through to the latter part of the twentieth century. The collection will support scholars researching and teaching in:
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