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  • 1 - Introduction and Overview

  • Karl Hack, The Open University, Milton Keynes
  • Book:
    The Malayan Emergency
    Published online:
    16 December 2021
    Print publication:
    16 December 2021, pp 1-25

  • Summary

    What was the canvas on which the Emergency was fought? This introduction and overview sketches in the population, the main players (British, MCP, UMNO, MCA), the importance of locality, the main phases and shape of the conflict and the historiography. In so doing it challenges some myths and sets the scene for later chapters to discuss issues of violence, harm and ‘winning hearts and minds’, and how and why insurgent strategy failed and counterinsurgent strategy ultimately succeeded.