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In Singapore: Unlikely Power, John Perry provides an evenhanded and authoritative history of the island nation that ranges from its Malay origins to the present day. Singapore is one of the wealthiest and best educated countries in the world, while also having one of the highest global capital punishment rates per-capita. Singapore is a democracy, but serves as a model regime for states that aim develop rapidly but are relatively unconcerned with freedom ordemocratic practices.

Über den Autor

Professor of Maritime History, Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Preface
Why Should We Care?
Singapores Periodic Crises
How Has It Happened?

I. Origins
Sea People
Earliest "Singapore"
The Hinge of Eurasia
The Chinese, the Sea, and Southeast Asia
Chinas Seafaring Culture Hero

II. Wings of Canvas
Northern Europe Follows the Atlantic Others
British Triumph in Asian Waters
Birth Trauma for Singapore

III. "Queen of the Further East"
The Lure of Singapore
"Chinatown"
Chinese and Britons
Opium and Empire
China on Ebb Tide
Pulsating Port

IV. Empire at Zenith
"The Dirty Ditch"
A Kra Canal?
Wiring the World
Singapore's Advantage
The Port Responds
Tin Mines and Tin Cans
Rubber Startles the World
Plying the Coast
Blue Water Highways
Globetrotters
Coolies
A Cosmopolitan Culture
"Great Possibilities"

V. Clouds, Thunder, and Storm, 1918-42
Oil Emerges
A Privileged Colonial World
Enter the Japanese
Apprehension Grows
"Battleship without a Bottom"
"The Worst Day of the War"
Rip Current for the Allies
"Lambs at Home, Devils Outside"
Voyage of Netaji
The Rising Sun Sets

VI. "Walking on a Razors Edge," 1945-65
Painful Recovery and Push for Freedom
Singapore's "Men in White" Displace Colonial Overlords
Struggling for New Order
Defining an Economy
"Might Well Start Rowing"

VII. "Turfed Out"
Goh Builds Jurong
"Strategic Pragmatism"
A New Schoolhouse
Lion of the Lion City
Embracing Oceanic Revolution
Goodbye to Great Britain
A new City Emerges

VIII. Coming to the Present
Preserving the Environment
Hydro Hub
Looming Threats?
"Brain Services"
Polishing Society
"Asian" Values
The Singapore Grip
Out of Bounds
The Voice of the Internet

IX. Global Hinge?

Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsjahr:	2017
Genre:	Geschichte
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
Seiten:	360
Inhalt:	Gebunden
ISBN-13:	9780190469504
ISBN-10:	0190469501
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Perry, John Curtis
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press, USA
Maße:	244 x 161 x 35 mm
Von/Mit:	John Curtis Perry
Erscheinungsdatum:	06.02.2017
Gewicht:	0,604 kg

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