History

Description Lee Kuan Yew: A Tribute is a keepsake collection of stories on Singapore’s first prime minister, initially published in The Straits...

Description About the Series Singapore is one of the most religiously diverse countries in the world. This feature gives multiple layers and co...

Description About the Series The story of public housing in Singapore is a unique one. This book chronicles the journey from the early days of ...

Description About the Series Singapore Chronicles: Eurasians explores the social history of Singapore Eurasians, focusing particularly on the 5...

Description About the Series This book gives a concise account of the Singapore economy, beginning withits origins in the colonial era and cont...

Description About the Series This book is a history of Singapore from the founding of a settlement by Raffles in 1819, to the post-imperial pha...

Description About the Series A collection of short essays written by the two authors, this book is an unconventional chronicle of the visual ar...

Description A curry puff stall that dates back to the 1950s; homemade desserts sold to make ends meet; immigrants cooking with firewood; itiner...

Description C.V. Devan Nair, the son of a rubber plantation clerk, rose from humble beginnings to become an outstanding union leader, a Member ...

Description About the Editor The essays published here began as a series of lectures commemorating the bicentennial of Thomas Stamford Raffles...

Description We Are Singaporeans Volume 2 continues to feature inspiring illustrated interviews of Singaporeans who have carved out unconvention...

When after three decades of research Singapore could produce its own water, the little city-state was said to have lost its vulnerability. No longe...

Description Lee Kuan Yew passed away on 23 March 2015 at the age of 92. This book, which was first published in 1998, tells the story of his li...

Description About the Author In this long-awaited sequel to bestselling Invisible Trade: High-class sex for sale in Singapore, Gerrie Lim unrav...

Description About the Author In this fully updated, third edition of Crossroads, Jim Baker adds new information following recent government ele...

Description About the Author The story of British Malaya and Singapore, from the days of Victorian pioneers to the denouement of independence, ...

Description About the Author The history of communism in Malaya (including Singapore) almost coincided with the rise and fall of communism worl...

Description Praise About the Author With its cutting-edge skyscrapers standing cheek to cheek with traditional Chinese shophouses, picturesque ...

Description Praise About the Author Through a collection of letters written to his best friend and to his father in England, and from his own p...

Description About the Author 'Chinese New Year 1915 will long be remembered in the Straits Settlements,' write Edwin and Mary Brown in their ex...

Description About the Author This collection of occasional reflections is a first by one of Singapore’s most distinguished poets. Exploring how...

Description About the Author Lee Kuan Yew: The Critical Years (1971-78) is a facsimile edition of Alex Josey's second masterful account of Sing...

Description About the Author A brilliant psychopath hiding under the veneer of an educated, charming persona, while plotting the perfect murde...

Description This book is part of the authors’ continuing research on quality of life issues in Singapore. It builds on past research into the v...

Description About the Author At the height of the Cold War in Southeast Asia, the foreign relations between the United States and Singapore dem...

Description About the Authors The People's Action Party's unbroken mandate to rule in Singapore rests in no small part on how it has explained ...

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

Description About the Author The book uses three Indonesian concepts (merantau, malu, liar) to explain the mobility of migrants and tourists on...

Description This little book showcases some particularly Singaporean sights. Included are people, art, architecture, religion, flora and fauna,...

Description About the Editor In this collection, public intellectuals and civil society activists discuss Singapore's public rhetoric about lib...

Description About the Author The authoritative biography of the 'Father of Singapore'. By the time of his death, Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-...

Description “Baba”, “Nonya”, “Peranakan” and “Straits Chinese” are terms that refer to the descendants of Chinese traders who settled in Southe...

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 Guns of February shows the Fall of Singapore and Japan's 1941 military campaign in Malaya through the eyes of Japa...

Description Chinese Eminent Peoples, we look at the lives of more than 100 of the greatest and most famous achievers in all of Chinese history....

Description Praise About the Authors The history of Singapore’s Chinese community is carved in stone and wood: in the epigraphic record of 62 C...

Description The Malay/Muslim community, comprising approximately 13% of Singapore's population, is an integral part of modern Singapore's forma...

Description In an industry of higher education that measures the longevity of its leading institutions in decades and centuries, the establishm...

Description Praise About the Editors/Translators During World War II, the Japanese government created a research bureau, the Chōsabu, to study ...

Description Praise About the Author Photography in Southeast Asia: A Survey is a comprehensive attempt to map the emergence and trajectories of...

Description About the Authors The peoples of Southeast Asia have a long history of cultural commonalities. From Sumatra to Vietnam, the inhabit...

Description In 2017, I started my research on the fate of granduncle Silvestr Nemec, a young Czech employed by the Bata Show Company in Singapo...

Description About the Author Southeast Asia was created by geopolitics, and it might die with it. An era of great power rivalry made the rise o...

Description Praise About the Author “This book impresses me beyond words. Here is a writer driven by passion for the deeds of brave soldiers. A...

Description Get the set here! Foreword by Euston Quah This volume reflects on the past, present, and future of Singapore's economy and society ...

Description The 200th anniversary of the arrival of Sir Stamford Raffles and William Farquhar in Singapore is an opportunity to tell afresh the...

Description In his 60 years as a politician, 31 of them as Prime Minister, Mr Lee delivered thousands of speeches. This book contains 33 that s...

Description The first in the Great Singapore Stories series comprises 10 books in an attractive collection on the “FOUNDING FATHERS” who were a...