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Singapore in global history /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Heng, Derek Thiam Soon, Aljunied, Syed Muhd. Khairudin, 1976-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2011.
Colección:ICAS publication series. Edited volumes ; 14.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Globalising the history of Singapore / Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied and Derek Heng
  • Situating Temaski within the larger regional context : maritime Asia and Malay state formation in the pre-modern era / Derek Heng
  • Singapore River : port in a global context / Stephen Dobbs
  • Walls of illusion : information generation in colonial Singapore and the reporting of the Mahdi-Rebellion in Sudan, 1887-1890 / Torsten Tschacher
  • Littoral and the literary : making moral communities in the Straits Settlements and the Gold Coast in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century / Philip Holden
  • Social discourse and economic functions : the Singapore Chinese in Japan's southward expansion between 1914 and 1941 / Huei-Ying Kuo
  • Dynamics of trans-regional business and national politics : the impact of events in China on Fujian-Singapore tea trading networks, 1920-1960 / Jason Lim
  • Rambutans in the picture : Han Wai Toon and the articulation of space by the overseas Chinese in Singapore / Lai Chee Kien
  • Global effects of an ethnic riot : Singapore, 1950-1954 / Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied
  • British military withdrawal from Singapore and the anatomy of a catalyst / Loh Kah Seng
  • Bringing the international and transnational back in : Singapore, decolonisation, and the Cold War / S.R. Joey Long
  • Global and the regional in Lee Kuan Yew's strategic thought : the early Cold War years / Ang Cheng Guan
  • Brief history of the hub : navigating between 'global' and 'Asian' in Singapore's knowledge economy discourse / Leong Yew.