THE LAKE CLUB 1890-1990 : the Pursuit of Excellence /
On Saturday, 16 August 1890, twenty-eight 'prominent residents' of Kuala Lumpur gathered on a spot where the Royal Lake Club now stands and held the inaugural meeting of the Club. This slim volume looks back over the hundred years which have elapsed since that event and reconstructs the ma...
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1990
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| author | Tate, Muzaffar D. J. (Muzaffar Desmond John), author 624448 |
| author_facet | Tate, Muzaffar D. J. (Muzaffar Desmond John), author 624448 |
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| description | On Saturday, 16 August 1890, twenty-eight 'prominent residents' of Kuala Lumpur gathered on a spot where the Royal Lake Club now stands and held the inaugural meeting of the Club. This slim volume looks back over the hundred years which have elapsed since that event and reconstructs the main episodes in the Club's development and history, It commences with the decade of the 'gay nineties', then covers the second decade when Kuala Lumpur was humming with the rubber boom, the decades taken up by two world wars and the years between, the restoration of the Club in 1945, and the recent decades which have witnessed the Club's astonishing resurgence as the country's premier social club. In the process, fascinating glimpses are afford of Kuala Lumpur's high society' as it has evolved from colonial times to the present in tandem with Malaysia's developing nationhood. |
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| spelling | KOHA-OAI-TEST:5551972023-04-04T02:30:34ZTHE LAKE CLUB 1890-1990 : the Pursuit of Excellence / Tate, Muzaffar D. J. (Muzaffar Desmond John), author 624448 textSingapore : Oxford University Press,1990©1990engOn Saturday, 16 August 1890, twenty-eight 'prominent residents' of Kuala Lumpur gathered on a spot where the Royal Lake Club now stands and held the inaugural meeting of the Club. This slim volume looks back over the hundred years which have elapsed since that event and reconstructs the main episodes in the Club's development and history, It commences with the decade of the 'gay nineties', then covers the second decade when Kuala Lumpur was humming with the rubber boom, the decades taken up by two world wars and the years between, the restoration of the Club in 1945, and the recent decades which have witnessed the Club's astonishing resurgence as the country's premier social club. In the process, fascinating glimpses are afford of Kuala Lumpur's high society' as it has evolved from colonial times to the present in tandem with Malaysia's developing nationhood.On Saturday, 16 August 1890, twenty-eight 'prominent residents' of Kuala Lumpur gathered on a spot where the Royal Lake Club now stands and held the inaugural meeting of the Club. This slim volume looks back over the hundred years which have elapsed since that event and reconstructs the main episodes in the Club's development and history, It commences with the decade of the 'gay nineties', then covers the second decade when Kuala Lumpur was humming with the rubber boom, the decades taken up by two world wars and the years between, the restoration of the Club in 1945, and the recent decades which have witnessed the Club's astonishing resurgence as the country's premier social club. In the process, fascinating glimpses are afford of Kuala Lumpur's high society' as it has evolved from colonial times to the present in tandem with Malaysia's developing nationhood.Salleh Mohd Nor;Salleh Mohd Nor;Royal Lake Club of Kuala LumpurManners and customsURN:ISBN:0195889908 |
| spellingShingle | Royal Lake Club of Kuala Lumpur Manners and customs Tate, Muzaffar D. J. (Muzaffar Desmond John), author 624448 THE LAKE CLUB 1890-1990 : the Pursuit of Excellence / |
| title | THE LAKE CLUB 1890-1990 : the Pursuit of Excellence / |
| title_full | THE LAKE CLUB 1890-1990 : the Pursuit of Excellence / |
| title_fullStr | THE LAKE CLUB 1890-1990 : the Pursuit of Excellence / |
| title_full_unstemmed | THE LAKE CLUB 1890-1990 : the Pursuit of Excellence / |
| title_short | THE LAKE CLUB 1890-1990 : the Pursuit of Excellence / |
| title_sort | lake club 1890 1990 the pursuit of excellence |
| topic | Royal Lake Club of Kuala Lumpur Manners and customs |
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