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Singapore in Global History explores Singapore's past and present through the lens of global history. It analyses Singapore as a city-state and adds an interdisciplinary perspective to the study of its growth. The studies presented here demonstrate that Singapore's history and growth have...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Aljunied, Syed Muhd Khairudin (Editor ), Heng, Derek (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2012]
Colección:ICAS Publications ; 14
Temas:
Ethnicity > Singapore.
Ethnicité > Singapour.
HISTORY / General.
Ethnicity.
Singapore.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Tables and Illustrations
  • Foreword
  • 1. Globalising the History of Singapore / Aljunied, Syed Muhd Khairudin / Heng, Derek
  • 2. Situating Temasik within the Larger Regional Context: Maritime Asia and Malay State Formation in the Pre-Modern Era / Heng, Derek
  • 3. The Singapore River/Port in a Global Context / Dobbs, Stephen
  • 4. 'Walls of Illusion': Information Generation in Colonial Singapore and the Reporting of the Mahdi-Rebellion in Sudan, 1887-1890 / Tschacher, Torsten
  • 5. The Littoral and the Literary: Making Moral Communities in the Straits Settlements and the Gold Coast in the late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century / Holden, Philip
  • 6. Social Discourse and Economic Functions: The Singapore Chinese in Japan's Southward Expansion between 1914 and 1941 / Kuo, Huei-Ying
  • 7. The Dynamics of Trans-Regional Business and National Politics: The Impact of Events in China on Fujian-Singapore Tea Trading Networks, 1920-1960 / Lim, Jason
  • 8. Rambutans in the Picture: Han Wai Toon and the Articulation of Space by the Overseas Chinese in Singapore / Kien, Lai Chee
  • 9. The Global Effects of an Ethnic Riot: Singapore, 1950-1954 / Khairudin Aljunied, Syed Muhd
  • 10. The British Military Withdrawal from Singapore and the Anatomy of a Catalyst / Seng, Loh Kah
  • 11. Bringing the International and Transnational back in: Singapore, Decolonisation, and the Cold War / Long, S.R. Joey
  • 12. The Global and the Regional in Lee Kuan Yew's Strategic Thought: The Early Cold War Years / Guan, Ang Cheng
  • 13. A Brief History of the Hub: Navigating between 'Global' and 'Asian' in Singapore's Knowledge Economy Discourse / Yew, Leong
  • About the Contributors
  • Bibliography

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