Synopses & Reviews
Singapore is a dominant player in the global economy, serving both as an essential business hub for international finance and home to some of the world's most important ports. It is also one of the world's smallest and most resource-poor countries.
This book offers an engaging examination of Singapore using a theme of globalization to explain how the country's worldwide interactions across centuries have resulted in an ethnically diverse society and allowed it to ascend to a position of being an economic powerhouse. Every significant historic event and era—from its status as a meeting point for traders in the 600s to its colonization by the British in 1819, and from Japanese occupation during World War II to the 2002 arrest of a group of Islamic terrorists—is covered.
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This book overviews Singapore's fascinating history from the precolonial era to the present, examining this wealthy island nation from economic, political, cultural, and social perspectives.
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While Singapore today is known for having a strong hand of law and order, the island nation was home to vices like prostitution, rampant drug use, and pirate activity in the 1800s and early 1900s. After more than a century of colonialism, Singapore has evolved into the seventh richest country in the world.
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• Gives valuable context to historical forces such as imperialism that shaped the diverse and strictly controlled society of modern Singapore
• Overviews 14 centuries of Singaporean history with an engaging and approachable style of writing that makes it an excellent resource for nonexperts
• Suitable for students and international businesspeople as well as tourists and arm-chair travelers
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• Documents the contributions of nearly two dozen pivotal figures that helped shape Singapore through brief biographical sketches of each individual
• Provides a chronology of major events and developments in Singapore's history
• Contains maps of Singapore and Southeast Asia
• Includes a bibliographic essay that suggests further reading on topics ranging from military history, World War II, an ethnic neighborhood study, and regional context
• An index assists readers in quickly referencing key persons, locations, events, and concepts