History

Description They stood firm on their convictions despite the odds. Some paid a heavy toll for their beliefs - deprivations, long prison terms, ...

Description About the Author This book tells the story of a young man who failed his PSLE examinations, but through sheer determination, persev...

Description About the Author At the crossroads of Singapore history, noted public intellectual and entrepreneur Devadas Krishnadas shares his i...

Description About the Author Gardens are magical places — images of Nature and Culture, models of paradise, spaces where plants live in war and...

Description About the Author Brutal & savage murder of an enigmatic beauty queen. Brother-in-law and lover of the victim convicted on circ...

Description About the Author A fast-paced and sinister story of robbery and gruesome murder Ten men involved in the heinous offences of robber...

Description From the 1930s to 1965, discussions about modernisation, race and civic responsibility were as common as they are today. The youth ...

Description About the Authors They are often mere statistics these days – the growing ranks of the elderly, whose care will be borne by ever fe...

Description About the Author The third of the “Tom Plate on Asia” series, Yo-Yo Diplomacy compiles the compelling and insightful columns on Asi...

Description About the Author Postcolonial literature in Chinese from the Nanyang, literally the South Seas, examines the history of Chinese mig...

Description About the Authors Singapore fell to Japanese forces on 15 February 1942. Within a matter of days, the occupying army took prisoner ...

Description About the Author The British Royal Navy has been sharply criticized for tactical errors in Asia during the years leading to WWII. I...

Description Praise About the Author The British Royal Navy has been sharply criticized for tactical errors in Asia during the years leading to ...

Description About the Author This book explores a little-known phase in the history of both Indonesia and Singapore: how the dynamics of the In...

Description About the Author This book describes the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce's changing relationship with the state and with busi...

Description Praise About the Author During the presidency of Lyndon Johnson, the British government sought to avoid escalation of the war in Vi...

Description About the Author In March 2009, the Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE) was briefly taken over by a Christian fact...

Description About the Author C.M. (Mary) Turnbull's contributions to historical writing on Singapore extended from her 1962 thesis, published i...

Description In 2015, Singapore celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of its independence. From its founding as a British colony with no natural r...

Description We know him best as the founder of modern Singapore . He was instrumentral in bringing about the island 's development into a free ...

Description About the Authors Until the mid-1950s nearly all the waters lying between the far-flung islands of the Indonesian archipelago were ...

Description Praise About the Author The Islamic kingdom of Aceh was ruled by queens for half of the 17th century. Was female rule an aberration...

Description About the Editors In this volume, a group of international scholars examines the history of Singapore as a series of discontinuous ...

Description About the Author The world's population negotiates a multiplicity of naming systems. Some are compatible with the "normative" syste...

Description About the Authors This book is about the territorial dispute between Malaysia and Singapore over Pedra Branca, a small but strategi...

Description About the Editors Singapore's era of pluralism between the 1950s and 1970s was a time of extraordinary cultural, intellectual and p...

Description About the Author Officially established in 1878, the natural history collection originally housed at the Raffles Museum now has mor...

Description Praise About the Author The Nemesis was the first of a generation of iron-clad, steam-powered naval vessels that established Britis...

Description Praise About the Author Extricating liberalism from the haze of anti-modernist and anti-European caricature, this book traces the r...

Description This 2009 second edition of the 2000 study of the beliefs of Lee Kuan Yew (b. 1923) includes a new afterword by the author. The ext...

Description About the Author The Flemish gem trader Jacques de Coutre visited Southeast Asia in the early 17th century, and his lengthy account...

Description Praise About the Editors The exchange of landscape practice between China and Europe from 1500–1800 is an important chapter in art ...

Description About the Editors English in Singapore provides an up-to-date, detailed and comprehensive investigation into the various issues sur...

Description About the Author In this book, distinguished historian Philip A. Kuhn tells the remarkable five-century story of Chinese emigration...

Description Praise About the Author Australia’s policy towards Britain’s end of empire in Southeast Asia influenced the course of this decoloni...

Description About the Author On a hot August afternoon in 1811 an army of 10,000 British redcoats splashed ashore through the muddy shallows of...

Description About the Author & Translator Jacques de Coutre was a Flemish gem trader who spent nearly a decade in Southeast Asia at the tur...

Description “儿童”是建构历史和文化的重要概念及方法。 本论文集以战后新马地区出版和发行的儿童期刊以及教科书等为主要研究对象，结合口述采访、本地书局历史和原始档案资料，在将“南洋儿童”概念历史化的同时，重点分析其发展变化与本地区新兴的反殖民话语、民族国家的兴起、新马与香港之...

Description About the Author The transformation of the Singapore River symbolises the city-state's efforts to remake itself for the 21st centur...

Description About the Author Tim writes vividly about his extraordinary life, his journey from the hard work and poverty of the coal mining tow...

Description After the Japanese invasion of Burma in late 1941, 11-year-old Colin McPhedran fled his homeland on foot, crossing the rugged Patko...

Description About the Authors This book documents short stories of inspirational local runners who were involved in the creation of Sundown Mar...

Description About the Author Japan’s invasion of Burma in 1942 set off the longest retreat in British military history. Along with the fall of ...