Format:
1 Online-Ressource (208 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9798400665349
Series Statement:
The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations
Content:
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. 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
Note:
Series Foreword Acknowledgments Timeline of Major Events 1 A Globalized City-State 2 Pre-Colonial Singapore: Temasek, Dragon's Tooth Gate, and Singapura, 100-1819 3 The Establishment of Colonial Singapore: 1819-1867 4 A Crown Colony: 1867-1942 5 Fortress Singapore to Syonan-to: World War II 6 The Rough Road to Independence: 1945-1963 7 From Third World to First World: Since 1965 Notable People in the History of Singapore Glossary Bibliographic Essay Index
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780313377426
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780313377433
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9798216097983
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9798400665349
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