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Singapore in Global History : Global Connections.
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 global dimensions contributing to Singap...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | ICAS Publications Series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of Contents; List of Tables and Illustrations; Foreword; 1 Globalising the History of Singapore; 2 Situating Temasik within the LargerRegional Context: Maritime Asia and Malay State Formation in the Pre-Modern Era1; 3 The Singapore River/Port in a Global Context; 4 'Walls of Illusion':Information Generation in Colonial Singapore and the Reporting of the Mahdi-Rebellion in Sudan, 1887-1890; 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.
- 6 Social Discourse and Economic Functions:The Singapore Chinese in Japan's Southward Expansion between 1914 and 19417 The Dynamics of Trans-Regional Business and National Politics:The Impact of Events in China on Fujian-SingaporeTea Trading Networks, 1920-1960; 8 Rambutans in the Picture:Han Wai Toon and the Articulation of Space by the Overseas Chinese in Singapore1; 9 The Global Effects of an Ethnic Riot:Singapore, 1950-1954; 10 The British Military Withdrawal from Singapore and the Anatomy of a Catalyst.
- 11 Bringing the International and Transnational back in: Singapore, Decolonisation, and the Cold War12 The Global and the Regional in Lee Kuan Yew's Strategic Thought:The Early Cold War Years1; 13 A Brief History of the Hub:Navigating between 'Global'and 'Asian' in Singapore's Knowledge Economy Discourse; About the Contributors; Bibliography; Other Reference Materials.