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Article: Alex C. Castles, The Constitutional and Legal History of Sarawak: Documents and Commentaries.(Book review)
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- Borneo Research Bulletin
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- January 1, 2005
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Alex C. Castles, The Constitutional and Legal History of Sarawak: Documents and Commentaries. Volume I. People's Law-Making and Brooke Rule, Kuching: Persatuan Sejarah Malaysia Cawangan Sarawak, 2003. 294pp.
Professor Alex Castles was a great polymath who combined an extraordinary capacity for detail with a cheeky irreverence for just about everything except the study of history. My own conversations with him could skip from Aboriginal legal status to the validity of orders issued by the Australian Army from Labuan in September 1945 to the circumstances of Ned Kelly's trial in Melbourne in 1880. Indeed, his last book, published posthumously by Penguin in 2005, ...