1st Edition
Singapore in Global History
320 Pages
by
Routledge
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 Singapore's growth. The book's global perspective demonstrates that many of the discussions of Singapore as a... Read more
Foreword, 1 Globalising the History of Singapore, 2 Situating Temasik within the Larger Regional 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 1941, 7 The Dynamics of Trans-Regional Business and National Politics: The Impact of Events in China on Fujian-Singapore Tea 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 War, 12 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.
Biography
Derek Heng is assistant professor of history at the Ohio State University at Marion. Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied is assistant professor of Malay Studies at the National University of Singapore and author of Colonialism, Violence and Muslims in Southeast Asia (New York: Routledge, 2009).
