{"product_id":"swettenham","title":"Swettenham","description":"\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrank Swettenham joined the Malayan Civil Service in 1870, aged twenty, and retired in 1903 as Governor of the Straits Settlements. He remained a significant voice in British colonial policy until his death in 1946, and his biography provides a unique account of colonial Malaya. Henry S. Barlow describes him as an “outstandingly able and effective man, but scarcely a nice one”, noting that Swettenham displayed “ruthless ambition” in his professional and social life and was “cruel, cold-hearted, and deceitful” in his personal life. This comprehensive and exceptionally readable account, a reprint of a limited edition privately published in 1995, presents the man in full.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn exceptionally readable biography of a major figure in Malaysian and British colonial history.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe life of a man whose abilities and ambition carried him to senior positions in colonial Malaya and in the British business world.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eH. S. Barlow\u003c\/strong\u003e (1944 – ) came to in 1970 and worked as financial director of a family-run estates agency. In 1983, following Malaysianization, he spent nearly a decade preparing the Swettenham biography and working on a voluntary basis for local NGOs concerned with the environment and with architectural heritage. He subsequently joined boards of two government-linked estate management companies as an independent non-executive director. He currently runs an arboretum for rare and endangered West Malaysian tree species and pursues a lifelong interest studying the butterflies and moths of the area.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"APD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50767832416553,"sku":"9789670075020","price":68.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0041\/files\/image001_e7fced25-b0a4-44d8-a63a-fb4b7de91093.jpg?v=1754749005","url":"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/products\/swettenham","provider":"Epigram","version":"1.0","type":"link"}