History

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 Praise About the Author OUT OF PRINT Look inside the book The Japanese Occupation in Singapore was a part of the theatre of the Asi...

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 Praise About the Author A comprehensive collection of 477 drawings—including plants, birds, mammals, reptiles, insects, and fish—ac...

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 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 In this updated book, viewed by many as a definitive guide to Singapore-style diplomacy, former minister, diplomat and law d...

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 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 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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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...

Description About the Author Everything you might want to know about Kent Ridge in one book. This book helps you look beneath the shiny exterio...

Description About the Author In 2015, Singapore celebrates its 50th anniversary of independence. This book covers the complex historical forces...

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 About the Author With Foreword by S R Nathan. “A scholar by inclination, a businessman by necessity, a diplomat by duty” — those we...

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 How did Singapore's health care system transform itself into one of the best in the world? It not only provides easy access, but it...

Description About the Author Sylvia Toh's bestselling Eh, Goodu! and Lagi Goodu! appeared in 1982 and 1986 and famously crystallised many of th...

Description About the Author The National Library of Singapore has one name that is inseparable from its history. Mrs Hedwig Anuar, born Hedwig...

Description Praise About the Author Dive into 1960s Singapore through a child's eyes: witty tales of colonial life, family antics, and a lost w...

Description Praise About the Author From the gap of two generations, a young Singaporean poet interrogates the victors, vanquished and victims ...

Description About the Author Welcome to Asia! Discover the incredible history and diversity of Asia in all its splendour, with this stunningly ...

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 Singapore has not one national literature but four literatures, in the official languages of Malay, Chinese, Tamil...

Description About the Series Heritage means different things to different people. This book provides a guide to Singapore heritage and its pres...

Description About the Series This book reviews the development of healthcare in Singapore, especially over the last 50 years. It presents major...

Description About the Series Good governance is at the heart of Singapore’s development, forged in the furnace of the early challenges that Sin...