Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
1-2024
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.
Discipline
Asian History | Physical and Environmental Geography
Research Areas
Integrative Research Areas
Publication
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History
Volume
25
Issue
1
First Page
1
Last Page
24
Identifier
10.1353/cch.2024.a928069
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Citation
LOWRIE, Claire; TARULEVICZ, Nicole; WILLIAMSON, Fiona; and LAM, Charmaine H..
Multiethnic elites and the management of tropical heat in colonial Malaya, circa 1870s-1930s. (2024). Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History. 25, (1), 1-24.
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1353/cch.2024.a928069