
Between 2 Oceans (2nd Edn)
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Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Maps and Illustrations
- Prologue
- Acknowledgment
- Notes on the Authors
- Chapter I: Geography and Traditional Warfare in Pre-British Southeast Asia: The Place of Singapore
- The Nature of Early Southeast Asian Warfare
- The Srivijayan Era, A.D. 100-1000
- A New Phase: The Rise of Malayu-Jambi, 1025-1075
- The Classical Singapore Phase, 1275-1400
- The Melaka Phase, 1400-1511
- The Johore-Riau Phase, 1511-1780
- The Dutch-Bugis Phase, 1700-1819
- Chapter II: Why the British Came to Singapore
- Crossroads of Empire: The Sea Route to China
- 1819 and Early Growing Pains
- Chapter III: From Fieldworks to Fort Canning, 1823-1866
- Creating a Defended Port
- Threats, Forts and the Basis of Defence
- A First-class Field Fortification
- Chapter IV: Britannia Rules the Waves? Singapore and Imperial Defence, 1867-1891
- Defending a Crown Colony
- Russians, Guns, Money, and Bureaucrats
- Chapter V: The Weakest Go to the Wall: From Money to Mutiny, 1892-1918
- Paying for Defence: The Paper War
- The Great War and Singapore: Cruisers, Volunteers and Mutineers
- Chapter VI: A Keystone of Imperial Defence or a Millstone Around Britain's Neck? Singapore 1919-1941
- The Genesis of the "Singapore Strategy," 1918-1929
- Developments on the International Stage, 1929-1937
- The Acid Test for the "Singapore Strategy"
- Chapter VII Too Little, Too Late: Preparing for War, 1941-1942
- Strike South
- Disjointed Defence
- Chapter VIII: Bitter Harvest: The Defence and Fall of Singapore
- The Fall of Malaya
- The Naked Island
- The Fall of Singapore
- Chapter IX: Living under the Rising Sun: Singapore and the Japanese Occupation, 1942-1945
- Coming to Terms with the Occupation: The View of the Local Singaporeans
- Life as a Prisoner of the Japanese
- Life as a Civilian Internee
- The Japanese Administration's Role during the Occupation
- Singapore's Military Significance
- Chapter X: Old Wine in a New Bottle: Singapore and British Defence Policy, 1945-1962
- Return to Singapore
- British Defence Policy and the Role of Singapore
- The Growth and Use of the Base and its Impact on Singapore
- Chapter XI: End of Empire: From Union to Withdrawal
- From Union to Confrontation
- Withdrawal: End of an Era
- 1 Notes on the Forts of Nineteenth-century Singapore
- Appendices
- 2 Wartime Preparations to Defend Singapore Island
- 3 Controversies surrounding the Surrender of Singapore, February 1942
- 4 War Crimes Trials in Singapore, 1946--1948
- Glossary
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes to the Text
- Bibliography
- Index
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