Singapore Two Hundred Years of the Lion City
Two hundred years after Singapores 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 Singapores 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 citys 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 Singapores exit from the Malaysian Federation in 1965. The book concludes by examining how Singapores 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 citys likely future development.
Anthony Webster is Professor of History at Northumbria University, UK.
Nicholas J. White is Professor of Imperial and Commonwealth History at Liverpool John Moores University, UK.
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Contents
Anthony Webster and Nicholas J. White
PART I
Singapore growth, trade & economy
Atsushi Kobayashi
G. Roger Knight
Tomotaka Kawamura
Valeria Giacomin
Gregg Huff and Gillian Huff
Nicholas J. White
PART II
Singapore politics, culture & identity
Anthony Webster
Stan Neal
Tim Bunnell
Kah Seng Loh
A. J. Stockwell
John Miksic
Donna Brunero
Donna Brunero is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore. She researches the intersections between maritime and imperial history with particular reference to the British presence in the port cities of Asia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her previous works include Empire in Asia: A New Global History, Vol 2, The Long Nineteenth Century (2018) (ed. with Brian P. Farrell), and Britains Imperial Cornerstone in China: the Chinese maritime customs service, 18541949 (2006).
Tim Bunnell is Professor of Human Geography at the National University of Singapore. He is an urban geographer who works on the development of cities in Southeast Asia and their global connections. His most recent books are From World City to the World in One City: Liverpool through Malay Lives (2016) and Urban Asias: Essays on Futurity Past and Present (2018) (ed. with Daniel P.S. Goh).
Valeria Giacomin is Founder Fellow at Founder Central, Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, and worked as Assistant Professor of Business History at Copenhagen Business School. Valeria wrote her thesis on the evolution of the rubber and palm oil cluster in Southeast Asia (2016). Her articles have been published in Management & Organizational History (2017), Enterprise & Society (2018) and the Journal of Global History (2018). She received the European Business History Association prize for best doctoral thesis in business history in 2018, and her article The Emergence of an Export Cluster: Traders and Palm Oil in Early Twentieth-Century Southeast Asia received the Mira Wilkins prize for best article in international business history in 2019.
Gillian Huff is with the History Faculty, University of Oxford. She is the author of Lonrho: Portrait of a Multinational (with Suzanne Cronje and Margaret Ling), SWAPO Information on Namibian Political Prisoners and The Workers of Namibia (with Suzanne Cronje). Gillian has authored numerous economic history journal articles.
Gregg Huff is Senior Research Fellow at Pembroke College, University of Oxford. He is the author of The Economic Growth of Singapore: Trade andDevelopment in the Twentieth Century (1994) and World War II and Southeast Asia: the Economic and Social Consequences of Japanese Occupation (2019), and has co-edited with Shinobu Majima and contributed to World War II Singapore: The Chsabu Reports on Syonan (2018). Gregg has authored numerous journal articles in economic history and economics journals.
Tomotaka Kawamura is a member of the Academic Support Staff at the Humanities Center, University of Tokyo. His publications include chapters in Maritime Trade and the Hinterland in Asia (2015) (eds. Tsukasa Mizushima, George Souza and Denis Flynn) and Commodities, Ports and Asian Maritime Trade since 1750 (2015) (eds. Ulbe Bosma and Anthony Webster) and
