Singapore in Global History

Foreword, 1 Globalising the History of Singapore, 2 Situating Temasik within the Larger Regional Context: Maritime Asia and Malay State Formation in the Pre-Modern Era1, 3 The Singapore River/Port in a Global Context, 4 'Walls of Illusion': Information Generation in Colonial Singapore and the Reporting of the Mahdi-Rebellion in Sudan, 1887-1890, 5 The Littoral and the Literary: Making Moral Communities in the Straits Settlements and the Gold Coast in the late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century, 6 Social Discourse and Economic Functions: The Singapore Chinese in Japan's Southward Expansion between 1914 and 1941, 7 The Dynamics of Trans-Regional Business and National Politics: The Impact of Events in China on Fujian-Singapore Tea Trading Networks, 1920-1960, 8 Rambutans in the Picture: Han Wai Toon and the Articulation of Space by the Overseas Chinese in Singapore1, 9 The Global Effects of an Ethnic Riot: Singapore, 1950-1954, 10 The British Military Withdrawal from Singapore and the Anatomy of a Catalyst, 11 Bringing the International and Transnational back in: Singapore, Decolonisation, and the Cold War, 12 The Global and the Regional in Lee Kuan Yew's Strategic Thought: The Early Cold War Years1, 13 A Brief History of the Hub: Navigating between 'Global'and 'Asian' in Singapore's Knowledge Economy Discourse, About the Contributors, Bibliography, Other Reference Materials.