Malaya's earliest history--the malacca sultanate--the portuguese in south-east asia--malaya in the sixteenth century--seventeenth-century malaya--eighteenth-century malaya and the bugis--the establishment of the straits settlements--malaya in the early nineteenth century--the beginning of a plural society--british intervention in the states of the peninsula--the residential system--the consolidation of british influence--the develoment of malaya's economy--malaya between the wars: 1918-41--the second world war in asia--post-war malaya

1. Malaysia -- History