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Engineers of happy land : technology and nationalism in a colony

"This book is both analytically daring and historically informative. I know of no work of colonial history, for Southeast Asia or elsewhere, that is comparable in its scope or power to illuminate--not to mention the zest and wit it brings to a potentially dry topic. There a many intriguing insights, startling images, and profound interpretations."--Mary Margaret Steedly, Harvard University

Print Book, English, ©2002
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., ©2002