History

Description About the Editors After Japan was hit by a triple disaster — an earthquake, a tsunami and a nuclear meltdown — in 2011, Singapore r...

Description Mr Lee Kuan Yew once famously said “when I project myself forward 100 years for Singapore, I cannot tell you that it will exist.” A...

Description Praise About the Author Even small states can have grand strategies. Singapore, despite its poor natural resource endowment, small ...

Description About the Editor Since 1965, Singapore has been propelled to the dizzying heights of first-world prosperity. Yet, the People's Acti...

Description The year 2019 marks Singapore's Bicentennial milestone since the arrival of Sir Stamford Raffles in Singapore in 1819. It was in an...

Description About the Author Cartoonist Morgan Chua delves into the brief but rich history of Singapore the city state. Backed by years of astu...

Description About the Editor Written Country intriguingly reconstructs the history of modern Singapore through fifty defining moments from the ...

Description About the Author This book, a compilation of key speeches and articles by the late Mr S Rajaratnam, is a tribute to one of the foun...

Description This book traces the development of stand-alone residential architecture in Singapore from its early days as a colony to the presen...

Description About the Author What is history? How is it made? And why does it matter? Reimagining Singapore’s History brings together leading h...

Description About the Author A lecturer turned banker, Dr Tony Tan Keng Yam never expected to become a politician, much less a president. Chall...

Description About the Series Singapore is a modern and global island-state, internationally recognised as one of the most liveable cities in th...

Description About the Series How can a tiny island defend itself against Goliaths in the region? This book addresses that often-asked question....

Description He was a well-known doctor and professor, and was one of the leading names in obstetrics and gynaecology in Singapore for decades. ...

Description About the Author Choo Seng Quee is arguably Singapore's greatest football coach. He brought Singapore football to great heights, es...

Description About the Author A sheltered young prince leaves his palace to discover the world outside. How does his journey begin and end? The ...

Description About the Author Rebuilding the Ancestral Village examines the relationship between one group of Singaporean Chinese and their ance...

Description Get a blast of the past! Savour old-time tastes such as the original roadside laksa and check out the hangouts of the good old days...

Description Praise About the Author The first and only account that tells the story from the Sepoy's perspective. The other accounts have the w...

Description About the Author This book provides a comprehensive portrait of class structure, dynamics, and orientations in Singapore – understo...

Description About the Authors Singapore Screening Spaces (1896–1945) is a documentation of archives and affection. It charts approximately hal...

Description Praise About the Author In the heart of Singapore, just off Orchard Road, the House of Tan Yeok Nee stands as the last surviving tr...

Description See Me, See You is the world’s first exhibition of early video installation of Southeast Asia, spanning the early 1980s to the earl...

Description About the Series Singapore Chronicles: Theatre surveys the beginnings, evolution and current state of the theatre in English, Manda...

Description About the Series The conventional and dominant view of Singapore’s history is that it began with Stamford Raffles’ arrival on the i...

Description About the Series This book tells the story of the Singapore legal system. Beginning with the British years, it moves on to the post...

Description Praise Why did Lee do away with vernacular schools despite violent political resistance?Why did he close Nanyang University?Why sta...

Description Noor Aishah Mohammad Salim was all of 26 years old when she became Singapore's First Lady in 1959 as the wife of Yusof Ishak, Singa...

Description About the Author In 1890, a teenage Tan Kah Kee left his hometown in Jimei, Fujian, embarking on a journey towards Singapore to joi...

Description About the Authors Khairat Kita documents the last few remaining Malay/Muslim Mutual Benefit Organisations (MMBOs) providing aid an...

Description This book accompanies a special exhibition of Edo-period Japanese woodblock prints and contemporary photographs of Japan by Singapo...

This Guide to Psychiatry Singapore Perspective is the 16th revision of the original series of "Guide to Psychiatry" which has been revised and upda...

Description For a Chinese immigrant in South-East Asia to make good is not unique, but what is unique in Tan Kah-kee’s case is his enormous con...

Description This book is a record of Mr Tan Lark Sye's remarkable contribution to the founding of Nanyang University. Hailing from Jimei, Fujia...

Description Praise About the Author This book documents the development of psychiatry in Singapore since its humble beginnings in the British ...

Description About the Editors Our Lives to Live: Putting a Woman's Face to Change in Singapore explores and documents how women's roles, choice...

Description About the Editors Singapore's Real Estate: 50 Years of Transformation documents the transformation and development of the real esta...

Description About the Authors First detailed account of the life of one of Singapore’s pioneers – a landowner, merchant and philanthropist Viv...

Description Best Non-fiction Title Finalist for the 2023 Singapore Book Awards At the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in Japan, more than a quarter of...

Description Finalist at the 2022 Popular Readers' Choice Award The United States of America is the largest investor in Singapore. And in 2019, ...

Description About the Series Water is more than a basic human necessity in Singapore. Its supply was a strategic collaboration between two Brit...

Description About the Series This book discusses the significance of multiracialism as one of the central components of nationhood in Singapore...

Description About the Series Singapore Chronicles: Education examines the key imperatives and principles that drove policy formulation, the suc...

Description “Why did I insist on Singaporeans all needing to learn their mother tongue? For the Chinese, why did I insist that they learn Chine...

Description Winner of the 2019 Singapore Book Awards Best Illustrated Non-Fiction Title Between the Lines: Early Print Advertising in Singapore...

Description This book presents a clear and concise introduction to 100 common herbs of the region, highlighting their fascinating uses in tradi...

Description About the Author This book, which is co-published with the Preservation of Monuments Board, takes a fascinating look into the archi...

Description Praise About the Author For three-and-a-half bleak years during World War II, Japan occupied Malaya and Singapore, transforming a o...