“… Nordin Hussin has added valuably to our understanding of colonial Malaya.
“… Nordin Hussin has added valuably to our understanding of colonial Malaya. Hussin examines the comparative histories of Dutch Melaka and British Penang at the turn of the ninetieth century, not as a historian writing in the old metropoles of Britain and the Netherlands might-as a comparative empire-but as a historian writing and publishing in the Malay world might-as a history of urban Malaysia.
…Hussin’s work is not without value for scholars of Britain’s empire as well."