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Seven Hundred Years

Author : Kwa Chong Guan,Tan Tai Yong
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Limited
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Singapore
ISBN : 9814828106

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- Unique new insights into Singapore's history based on the latest archaeological and archival research - Written in an accessible and engaging style by four of Singapore's most esteemed historians - Amply illustrated with more than 200 images, maps and ephemera

Singapore, a 700-year History

Author : Chong Guan Kwa,Derek Thiam Soon Heng,Tai Yong Tan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Singapore
ISBN : UCBK:C099353338

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Singapore, a 700-year History by Chong Guan Kwa,Derek Thiam Soon Heng,Tai Yong Tan Pdf

A General History Of The Chinese In Singapore

Author : Chong Guan Kwa,Bak Lim Kua
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 1002 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9789813277656

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A General History Of The Chinese In Singapore by Chong Guan Kwa,Bak Lim Kua Pdf

A General History of the Chinese in Singapore documents over 700 years of Chinese history in Singapore, from Chinese presence in the region through the millennium-old Hokkien trading world to the waves of mass migration that came after the establishment of a British settlement, and through to the development and birth of the nation. Across 38 chapters and parts, readers are taken through the complex historical mosaic of Overseas Chinese social, economic and political activity in Singapore and the region, such as the development of maritime junk trade, plantation industries, and coolie labour, the role of different bangs, clan associations and secret societies as well as Chinese leaders, the diverging political allegiances including Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary activities and the National Salvation Movement leading up to the Second World War, the transplanting of traditional Chinese religions, the changing identity of the Overseas Chinese, and the developments in language and education policies, publishing, arts, and more.With 'Pride in our Past, Legacy for our Future' as its key objective, this volume aims to preserve the Singapore Chinese story, history and heritage for future generations, as well as keep our cultures and traditions alive. Therefore, the book aims to serve as a comprehensive guide for Singaporeans, new immigrants and foreigners to have an epitome of the Singapore society. This publication is supported by the National Heritage Board's Heritage Project Grant.Related Link(s)

Singapore

Author : Michael D. Barr
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786735270

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Singapore gained independence in 1965, a city-state in a world of nation-states. Yet its long and complex history reaches much farther back. Blending modernity and tradition, ideologies and ethnicities, a peculiar set of factors make Singapore what it is today. In this thematic study of the island nation, Michael D. Barr proposes a new approach to understand this development. From the pre-colonial period through to the modern day, he traces the idea, the politics and the geography of Singapore over five centuries of rich history. In doing so he rejects the official narrative of the so-called 'Singapore Story'. Drawing on in-depth archival work and oral histories, Singapore: A Modern History is a work both for students of the country's history and politics, but also for any reader seeking to engage with this enigmatic and vastly successful nation.

Seven Hundred Years

Author : Chong Guan Kwa,Derek Thiam Soon Heng,Peter Borschberg,Tai Yong Tan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Singapore
ISBN : 9814868205

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Seven Hundred Years by Chong Guan Kwa,Derek Thiam Soon Heng,Peter Borschberg,Tai Yong Tan Pdf

One Hundred Years' History Of The Chinese In Singapore: The Annotated Edition

Author : Ong Siang Song
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 873 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789811217647

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One Hundred Years' History Of The Chinese In Singapore: The Annotated Edition by Ong Siang Song Pdf

Since its publication in 1923, Sir Song Ong Siang's One Hundred Years' History of the Chinese in Singapore has become the standard biographical reference of prominent Chinese in early Singapore, at least in the English language. This fact would have surprised Song who saw himself primarily as a compiler of historical and biographical snippets. The original was not referenced in academic fashion and contained a number of errors. This annotation by the Singapore Heritage Society takes Song's classic text and updates it with detailed annotations of sources that Song himself might have consulted, and includes more recent scholarship on the lives and times of various personalities who are mentioned in the original book. This annotated edition is commissioned by the National Library Board, Singapore and co-published with World Scientific Publishing.

Raffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History

Author : Alfian Sa'at,Faris Joraimi,Sai Siew Min
Publisher : Ethos Books
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9789811490231

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Raffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History by Alfian Sa'at,Faris Joraimi,Sai Siew Min Pdf

Why did independent Singapore celebrate two hundred years of its founding as a British colony in 2019? What does Merdeka mean for Singaporeans? And what are the possibilities of doing decolonial history in Singapore? Raffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History presents essays by historians, literary scholars and artists which grapple with these questions. The volume also reproduces some of the source material used in the play Merdeka / 獨立 / சுதந்திரம் (Wild Rice, 2019). Taken together, the book shows how the contradictions of independent nationhood haunt Singaporeans' collective and personal stories about Merdeka. It points to the need for a Merdeka history: an open and fearless culture of historical reckoning that not only untangles us from colonial narratives, but proposes emancipatory possibilities.

Singapore a Very Short History

Author : Alvin Tan
Publisher : Editions Didier Millet
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Singapore
ISBN : 9811433488

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Singapore: A Very Short History - From Temasek to Tomorrow is a fresh, new, and highly-readable account of Singapore's history. It is a sweeping story of discovery, abandonment, rediscovery and development of what is today one of the world's greatest port-cities. Brief as this account may be, it incorporates all the latest research and findings about Singapore's past, and weaves a concise yet coherent and comprehensive account of the island over the last 700 years. Beyond familiar foundational myths and stories, this new account weaves Singapore's story on a wide tapestry - through a cast of princes, sultans, colonial administrators, occupiers community leaders and politicians - and tells the tale of how they struggled to answer that all-important question: How do we make this island succeed? Two recurrent themes emerge from this gripping account. First, that Singapore was an unlikely or accidental nation-state; and second, that given its vulnerability to wider regional and international forces, it survived and flourished only because it was able to constantly change and adapt to make itself useful and relevant to the world. And what of tomorrow? Will Singapore survive? This book is a hopeful response to these questions.

Singapore in Global History

Author : Derek Thiam Soon Heng,Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789048514373

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Singapore in Global History by Derek Thiam Soon Heng,Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied Pdf

This important overview explores the connections between Singapore's past with historical developments worldwide until present day. The contributors analyse Singapore as a city-state seeking to provide an interdisciplinary perspective to the study of the global dimensions contributing to Singapore's growth. The book's global perspective demonstrates that many of the discussions of Singapore as a city-state have relevance and implications beyond Singapore to include Southeast Asia and the world. This vital volume should not be missed by economists, as well as those interested in imperial histor.

Singapore and the Silk Road of the Sea, 1300_1800

Author : John N. Miksic
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789971695743

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Singapore and the Silk Road of the Sea, 1300_1800 by John N. Miksic Pdf

Beneath the modern skyscrapers of Singapore lie the remains of a much older trading port, prosperous and cosmopolitan and a key node in the maritime Silk Road. This book synthesizes 25 years of archaeological research to reconstruct the 14th-century port of Singapore in greater detail than is possible for any other early Southeast Asian city. The picture that emerges is of a port where people processed raw materials, used money, and had specialized occupations. Within its defensive wall, the city was well organized and prosperous, with a cosmopolitan population that included residents from China, other parts of Southeast Asia, and the Indian Ocean. Fully illustrated, with more than 300 maps and colour photos, Singapore and the Silk Road of the Sea presents Singapore's history in the context of Asia's long-distance maritime trade in the years between 1300 and 1800: it amounts to a dramatic new understanding of Singapore's pre-colonial past.

1819 & Before

Author : Kwa Chong Guan
Publisher : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9789814951425

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1819 & Before by Kwa Chong Guan Pdf

The essays published here began as a series of lectures commemorating the bicentennial of Thomas Stamford Raffles’s establishment of a British Station in 1819. The essays draw on thirty-five years of archaeological investigations on and around Fort Canning, new readings of the Malay Annals, early Chinese records reporting Singapore, and the Portuguese and Dutch records to probe and challenge our understanding of Singapore’s history before Raffles. Altogether, these essays suggest that Singapore had a pre-1819 past that was deeply connected to the millennium-long maritime history of the Straits of Melaka and its links to the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean.

Nature Contained

Author : Tony O'Dempsey,Mark Emmanuel,John van Wyhe,Nigel P. Taylor,Fiona L.P. Tan,Cynthia Chou,Goh Hong Yi,Corinne Heng
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9789971697907

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Nature Contained by Tony O'Dempsey,Mark Emmanuel,John van Wyhe,Nigel P. Taylor,Fiona L.P. Tan,Cynthia Chou,Goh Hong Yi,Corinne Heng Pdf

How has Singapore's environment and location in a zone of extraordinary biodiversity influenced the economic, political, social, and intellectual history of the island since the early 19th century? What are the antecedents to Singapore's image of itself as a City in a Garden? Grounding the story of Singapore within an understanding of its environment opens the way to an account of the past that is more than a story of trade, immigration, and nation-building. Each of the chapters in this volume focusing on topics ranging from tigers and plantations to trade in exotic animals and the greening of the city, and written by botanists, historians, anthropologists, and naturalists examines how humans have interacted with and understood the natural environment on a small island in Southeast Asia over the past 200 years, and conversely how this environment has influenced humans. Between the chapters are travelers' accounts and primary documents that provide eyewitness descriptions of the events examined in the text. In this regard, Nature Contained: Environmental Histories of Singapore provides new insights into the Singaporean past, and reflects much of the diversity, and dynamism, of environmental history globally.

The Idea of Singapore

Author : Tai Yong Tan
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 981121381X

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Professor Tan Tai Yong is the Institute of Policy Studies' 6th S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore. This book is an edited collection of his six IPS-Nathan Lectures, delivered between September 2018 and May 2019, and includes highlights of his dialogue with the audience. In his lecture series, Professor Tan examines how Singapore has evolved over its 700-year history as a regional emporium, colonial port city and city-state. He shows that Singapore's history is influenced by the recurring themes of geography, movements of people, networks and globalisation. An understanding of the twists and turns of this long history, and the ways in which historical circumstances have shaped Singapore's fate and fortunes, can offer important insights and a better appreciation of our strengths and challenges as a city-state. The IPS-Nathan Lecture series was launched in 2014 as part of the S R Nathan Fellowship for the Study of Singapore. It seeks to advance public understanding and discussion of issues of critical national interest for Singapore.

Singapore – Two Hundred Years of the Lion City

Author : Anthony Webster,Nicholas J. White
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351020442

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Singapore – Two Hundred Years of the Lion City by Anthony Webster,Nicholas J. White Pdf

Two hundred years after Singapore’s foundation by Stamford Raffles in 1819, this book reflects on the historical development of the city, putting forward much new research and new thinking. It discusses Singapore’s emergence as a regional economic hub, explores its strategic importance and considers its place in the development of the British Empire. Subjects covered include the city’s initial role as a strategic centre to limit the resurgence of Dutch power in Southeast Asia after the Napoleonic Wars, the impact of the Japanese occupation, and the reasons for Singapore’s exit from the Malaysian Federation in 1965. The book concludes by examining how Singapore’s history is commemorated at present, reinforcing the image of the city as prosperous, peaceful and forward looking, and draws out the lessons which history can provide concerning the city’s likely future development.

200 Years of Singapore and the United Kingdom

Author : Tommy Thong Bee Koh,Scott Wightman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9814827436

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