Singapore, a 700-year history : from early emporium to world city
Digitised Book 216.73.216.10 (0)
2009
Information About
This book presents a comprehensive re-telling of the history of Singapore from local perspective. The authors argues that the history of Singapore started five hundred years earlier before the arrival of Stamford Raffles. The book fills in the gaps of much of Singapore's history from pre-Raffles past to ancient Temasek to the 19th century and then traces the transformation of the nation from port-city to city-state and to nation-state plugged into regional and international trends.
Additional Details
- Title
- Singapore, a 700-year history : from early emporium to world city
- Creators
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- Kwa, Chong Guam
- Heng, Derek Thiam Soon
- Tan, Tai Yong
- Subject
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- Singapore--History
- Publisher
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- National Library Board Singapore, 2009
- National Archives of Singapore, 2009
- Digital Description
- application/pdf, ill. (some col.)
- Table of Contents
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- defending port-city and empire -- The British ”Grand Design’', local politics and the formation of Malaysia -- Separation -- Responding to separation -- Aspiring to global city status -- Conclusion -- Index.
- Copyright
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- All rights reserved. Kwa Chong Guan, Derek Heng, Tan Tai Yong, National Archives of Singapore, 2009