Non-Fiction

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

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

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

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 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 Malay Weddings Don't Cost $50 is a collection of 42 articles which serves as a guide to Malay culture and heritage...

Description About the Author From private meetings in living rooms in the 1990s to the emergence of annual rallies and decriminalization campai...

Description Praise About the Author Established in 1859, Singapore’s Botanic Gardens has been important as a park for Singaporeans and visitors...

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

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

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

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

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

Description Dotted with lively and witty illustrations, Pioneers of Singapore feature thirty-five key figures from Singapore's colonial period ...

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

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

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

Description About the Author Immediately recognizable by their hong tou jin or red headscarves, Singapore's Samsui women-immigrants from the Sa...

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

Description Praise About the Author The globalisation of psychiatry has helped shape the way suffering and recovery is experienced in Aceh, Ind...

Description About the Author Between 1880 and 1930 colonial Singapore attracted tens of thousands of Chinese immigrant laborers, brought to ser...

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

Description About the Author Singapore through 19th Century Photographs is a comprehensive photographic record of Singapore from the early 1840...

Description About the Authors A selection of topographic prints of places such as the harbour, Singapore River, Fort Canning Hill, as well as p...

Description About the Author This important study of the shifting diplomatic efforts around the response to and resolution of the Vietnamese in...

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

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

Description Praise About the Author British artists and commentators in the late 18th and early 19th century encoded the twin aspirations of pr...

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

Description About the Author The crowded, bustling, 'squatter' kampongs so familiar across Southeast Asia have long since disappeared from Sing...

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

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

Description Old Singapore was an eclectic trade emporium, where an ethnically and culturally diverse populace coalesced, and sometimes clashed,...

Description Praise About the Author Since the 1990s, Thai contemporary art has achieved international recognition, circulating globally by way ...

Description About the Author Wallace's Malay Archipelago is a classic account of the travels of a Victorian naturalist through island Southeast...

Description A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step." in the pursuit of excellence the first step is to take in a job well don...

Description Praise About the Author Forty years after the Bangkok Declaration, which established the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (AS...

Description Praise About the Author Forty years after the Bangkok Declaration, which established the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (AS...

Description About the Author How does one comprehend the phenomenon of the modernization of an Asian society in a globalized East Asian context...

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