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

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

Since 1965, when it became a fully independent city-state, Singapore has been an effervescent laboratory of economic, social and environmental tran...

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 Japan’s invasion of Burma in 1942 set off the longest retreat in British military history. Along with the fall of ...

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 “The people” famously ousted Ferdinand Marcos from power in the Philippines in 1986. After democratization,...

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 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 Author Heritage and Identity in Contemporary Thailand explores the intersections of memory, place, power and touri...

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 The Internet has been used to democratise public discourse in Malaysia and Singapore, two countries in the zone be...

Description Praise About the Author Australia’s policy towards Britain’s end of empire in Southeast Asia influenced the course of this decoloni...

Description About the Author British imperialism helped shaped the modern world order. This same imperialism created modern Singapore, controll...

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 Editors Changes in the character of the political regime in Laos after 2000, a massive influx of foreign investmen...

Description About the Author As the political drive to establish closer ties among Asian governments continues to gain momentum, there has been...

Description Praise About the Authors At the core of this book is a seemingly simple question: What is Asia? In search of common historical root...

Description About the Author Asian port cities in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were the site of intensive cultural contact involvin...

Description Praise About the Author Malaysia's transition from a country dependent on agriculture and mining to an industrialized society is re...

Description Praise About the Author Few authors have as much to say about Singapore and Johor in the early 17 th century as Cornelis Matelieff ...

Description About the Author The abolition of slavery and similar institutions of servitude was an important global experience of the nineteent...