History

Description About the Series This book presents a historical overview of personal social services in Singapore, known fundamentally as social w...

Description About the Series Singapore is simultaneously praised for its extraordinary safety and criticised for its draconian laws. This prime...

Description About the Series Singapore Chronicles: Opposition traces the eventful history of Singapore’s opposition parties from post-World War...

Description About the Series The vicissitudes of history, from Raffles’ purchase of the Singapore island from a Malay sultan to the short-lived...

Description About the Series Though a small minority within the Singapore society, the Indian community displays deep diversity within its own ...

Description About the Series Singapore Chronicles: Environment documents Singapore’s journey towards greater environmental sustainability, biod...

Description About the Series This book examines the origins of the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) in the inter-War years and its subsequent de...

Description About the Series Singapore Chronicles: Demography traces the trends and developments in Singapore’s population from the pre-Indepen...

Description About the Series Historically, Singapore has been home to a myriad of people of Chinese descent, including those whose ancestors mi...

Description Abridged from Lee Kuan Yew: A Life in Pictures, this book features private and public pictures of Lee. It includes some new photos ...

Description Praise About the Editors For far too long, Southeast Asia has been treated as a static backdrop for the exploits and discoveries of...

Description Shortlisted for Singapore Book Awards 2018, Best Illustrated Non-Fiction Title Nine nautical miles off the east coast of peninsular...

Description About the Authors Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723): The First Microbiologist (523 KB) Pasteurizatio...

Description Reflections: The Legacy of Lee Kuan Yew is a collection of essays reflecting on Singapore's first Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew's im...

Description About the Editors Singapore's well-documented economic progress since independence owes a big debt to the initial investment that t...

Description Singapore’s rapid evolution from a modest trading post under colonial rule into a prosperous, self-confident nation is one of the n...

Description About the Author Singapore is known internationally for its successful economic development. Key to its economic successes is a var...

Description About the Author & Editor In the 50th anniversary year of Singapore's independence, it is timely to trace our developmental jou...

Description Tourism development is not merely about boosting tourist figures and bringing in more tourist dollars. Undoubtedly, it has to do wi...

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 Tao Te Ching, written more than 2,500 years ago, is reputedly the first philosphical works in Chinese history. It presents the phil...

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

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 Southeast Asia contains some of the world's busiest shipping waters, particularly the Indonesian archipelago, the Straits of Malacc...

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

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 About the Author In early 1905, a group of Javanese led by Alias bin Ali, started a settlement on a hillside in Singapore, not far ...

Description About the Author Admiral Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge, a Director in the Rotterdam chamber of the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) fo...

Description About the Editors Singapore experienced substantial changes during the 14-year tenure of the country's second Prime Minister, Goh C...

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 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...

思静与爱侣——资深作家黄大礼半世纪的坚贞爱情，谱写了新加坡牛车水一个最美丽的童话。文学的文本是历史的备忘录，思静的牛车水系列文字，恰恰为我国留下了一个特定时代中一个南来移民重要聚居地的最珍贵史料。

本书近百篇文章，编选自《联合早报》副刊〈四方八面〉专栏〈说黑道白〉。 说黑道白，是一个退休资深新闻工作者的心路历程。作者何盈青年时期起游走黑白两道，采访警匪与意外事件近30年；从阴暗面剖析社会的变迁，探索人性的蜕变，传扬美善揭露丑恶。忆录重大罪案与社会事件，回味采访前线的点点滴滴，穿插对报界与...

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

关于本书： 本书收集了新加坡著名老作家思静的怀旧文章。这些文章原刊于《联合早报》的《根》、《茶馆》、《文艺城》及《四方八面》。文章虽然各有主题，但主线却离不开新加坡的旧人、旧情、旧事。这些旧日情怀是现代年轻人无法体会的。作者只能通过怀旧的笔墨和珍贵的照片，把老狮城的情景和老一辈的生活面貌一字一...

Description The aim of this book is to encourage Singaporeans to give back to society and this applies not only to the wealthy but also to ever...

Description Positive experiences in daily lives enhance people's well-being and motivate them to do well and help others. Therefore, it is impo...

Description About the Author This book is a 25-year milestone celebration of DAS' efforts in creating awareness for dyslexia and providing qual...