Under Chartered Company Rule (North Borneo 1881 - 1946) by K. G. Tregonning

Description: The author, Head of the History Department of the University of Malaya in Singapore, presents a study which opens with a historical account of how Borneo was once an American colony prior to the emergence of the British North Borneo Company in the 19th century. This history of the Chartered Company is told here in full for the first time. Provides summary accounts of the government administration, economic development, labor, health, education, and the question of slavery which flourished in the 19th century in Borneo.