Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. — 304 p. Singapore gained independence in 1965, a city-state in a world of nation-states. Yet its long and complex history reaches much farther back. Blending modernity and tradition, ideologies and ethnicities, a peculiar set of factors make Singapore what it is today. In this thematic study of the island nation, Michael D. Barr proposes a new...
Amsterdam University Press, 2020. — 312 p. With Singapore serving as the subject of exploration, The Hard State, Soft City of Singapore explores the purview of imaginative representations of the city. Alongside the physical structures and associated practices that make up our lived environment, and conceptualized space engineered into material form by bureaucrats, experts and...
Second Edition. — Scarecrow Press, 2010. — 397 p. In spite of Singapore's small size, it has long had a major impact on the world because of its geographical location and its wealth. The British initially made the island a major port for the shipping of goods and later as an airline hub for the region. These factors, along with a steady government, have helped to contribute to...
Second Edition. — Scarecrow Press, 2010. — 397 p. In spite of Singapore's small size, it has long had a major impact on the world because of its geographical location and its wealth. The British initially made the island a major port for the shipping of goods and later as an airline hub for the region. These factors, along with a steady government, have helped to contribute to...
Scarecrow Press, 2005. — 285 p. Entries in this dictionary highlight and trace Singapore's history from a legendary past and its modern founding in 1819 to its evolution to its emergence as a post-war battleground of communist, socialist, democratic, and colonial interests and ideologies. With bibliography, chronology, maps, index, and tables of government leaders, cabinet...
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2009. — 317 p. — (ICAS Publications series, Edited Volumes 14). — ISBN: 9789089643247. This important overview explores the connections between Singapore’s past with historical developments worldwide until present day. The contributors analyse Singapore as a city-state seeking to provide an interdisciplinary perspective to the study of the...
Marshall Cavendish, 2013. — 182 p. Lee Kuan Yew: The Critical Years (1971–1978) is a facsimile edition of Alex Josey's second masterful account of Singapore's formidable prime minister, first published in 1980 and simply titled Lee Kuan Yew Volume 2. In this volume, Josey tells the continuing story of Singapore's remarkable development from the beginning of 1971 to the end of...
Singapore: National Library Board, 2019. — 314 p. — ISBN: 978-981-48-6820-4. Assessments of Singapore’s history invariably revolve around Sir Stamford Raffles’ arrival in 1819. Before this date – we’ve been told – “nothing very much appears to have happened in Singapore”. Pre-1819 Singapore was a sleepy, historically insignificant fishing village, little more than the...
Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., 2019. — 1003 p. — ISBN: 978-981-3278-32-5. A General History of the Chinese in Singapore documents over 700 years of Chinese history in Singapore, from Chinese presence in the region through the millennium-old trading world to the waves of mass migration that came after the establishment of a British settlement, and through...
Routledge, 2020. — 205 p. This book addresses key questions about how Singapore is likely to develop going forward, what are the key challenges facing the state, and how is the government going to deal with these matters. The book shows how important Lee Kuan Yew and subsequent individual leaders have been in shaping Singapore, and goes on to consider specific new challenges,...
Hong Kong University Press, 2008. — 314 p. Rather than presenting another narrative of Singapore history, The Scripting of a National History Singapore and Its Pasts studies the constructed nature of the history endorsed by the state, which blurs the distinction between what happened in the past, and how the state intends that past to be understood. The People’s Action Party...
Routledge, 2014. — 161 p. Singapore, like many other advanced economies, has a relatively low, and declining, birth-rate. One consequence of this, and a consequence also of the successful economy, is that migrants are being drawn in, and are becoming an increasing proportion of the overall population. This book examines this crucial development, and assesses its likely impact...
Singapore: National Library Board, 2016. — 874 p. — ISBN: 978-981-11-1574-5. Since its publication in 1923, Sir Song Ong Siang's One Hundred Years' History of the Chinese in Singapore has become the standard biographical reference of prominent Chinese in early Singapore. This annotated edition by the Singapore Heritage Society, commissioned by the National Library Board,...
Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., 2018. — 163 p. — ISBN: 978-981-32-3935-7. This book is one of the first few books written in English on Chaozhou culture and history. It compiles information from Chinese and English sources including archive material, newspapers, academic works and publications. It presents a panorama view of the Teochews in Singapore. The...
Pegasus Books, 2022. — 224 p. A compelling, illuminating and evocative history of Singapore—the world's most successful city-state. In 1965, Singapore's GDP per capita was on a par with Jordan. Now it has outstripped Japan. After the Second World War and a sudden rupture with newly formed Malaysia, Singapore found itself independent - and facing a crisis. It took the...
Routledge, 2019. — 267 p. Two hundred years after Singapore’s foundation by Stamford Raffles in 1819, this book reflects on the historical development of the city, putting forward much new research and new thinking. It discusses Singapore’s emergence as a regional economic hub, explores its strategic importance and considers its place in the development of the British Empire....
Cengage Learning Asia, 2010. — 239 p. — ISBN-13: 978-981-4336-07-9 Singapore's success story has been widely read. How and why this transformation came about, however, has seldom been publicly analyzed and articulated. Very few insiders with firsthand experience have chosen to illuminate the fundamental public policies guiding Singapore's social and economic growth. Yet it is...
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