Penang: The Fourth Presidency of India 1805–1830, Vol. 1: Ships, Men and Mansions
The Farming of Bones
Sea Of Poppies
House of Glass
Footsteps
China: From Mao to Modernity
The Chulia in Penang: Patronage and Place-Making around the Kapitan Kling Mosque, 1786–1957
Inspector Singh Investigates: A Calamitous Chinese Killing
Child of All Nations
Migration, Health And Inequality
Singapore: A Biography
Brimming with verve and dramatic incident, Singapore: A Biography offers fresh insights into the life story of this island city-state through the personal experiences of the workers, adventurers, rulers and revolutionaries who have shaped its history over the last seven centuries. The authors, drawing on research undertaken in collaboration with the National Museum of Singapore, have woven together ancient chronicles, eyewitness accounts, oral histories and even modern radio and television broadcasts to create a vivid and compelling narrative that brings the past back to life. Grounded in scholarship yet fired by the imagination, this book reveals the Singapore story to have been as rich, diverse and multilayered as the city-state is prosperous, ordered and successful today.
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Brimming with verve and dramatic incident, Singapore: A Biography offers fresh insights into the life story of this island city-state through the personal experiences of the workers, adventurers, rulers and revolutionaries who have shaped its history over the last seven centuries. The authors, drawing on research undertaken in collaboration with the National Museum of Singapore, have woven together ancient chronicles, eyewitness accounts, oral histories and even modern radio and television broadcasts to create a vivid and compelling narrative that brings the past back to life. Grounded in scholarship yet fired by the imagination, this book reveals the Singapore story to have been as rich, diverse and multilayered as the city-state is prosperous, ordered and successful today.
Publisher: Editions Didier Millet
Paperback
2013
ISBN: 9789814385169
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