List of Maps List of Figures Foreword by Carl A. Trocki Prologue Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Glossary of Asian-Language Terms Timeline 1. Let’s Talk About 1819: Reorienting the National Narrative 2. The Idea of Singapore 3. Singapore Central: The Role of Location in Singapore’s History 4. Governance in Premodern Singapore 5. Governance in Modern Singapore, 1867–1965 6. Governance in Independent Singapore 7. The Economy: Singapore, Still at the Centre 8. Making Modern Singaporeans: People, Society and Place Afterword Notes Bibliography Index
Comprehensive modern history of Singapore, from C16 to present.
Michael D. Barr is Associate Professor in International Relations, Flinders University, Australia. He has recently been elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He is an Associate Editor of Asian Studies Review and the author of Cultural Politics and Asian Values, Paths Not Taken: Political Pluralism in Post-War Singapore (edited with C. Trocki), Constructing Singapore (with Z. Skrbiš), Lee Kuan Yew, and The Ruling Elite of Singapore: Networks of Power and Influence (I.B.Tauris).
[Michael D. Barr] has synthesized a wide array of seminal works and
more recent research to offer thought-provoking perspectives and
insights that any student of Singapore history should consider and
reflect on.
*Pacific Affairs*
In this well-researched and clearly argued book, the highly
respected Australian scholar Barr (Flinders Univ., Australia)
challenges the entire ‘Singapore Story’ through a thematically
organized revisionist history of Singapore from its earliest times
into the 21st century.
*CHOICE*
Dr. Barr is a very talented writer. His intellect and more nuanced
perspectives come through in this book, in which the content dives
deep into Singapore’s history from a political, geographic, and
economic view … If you want a very real and well-researched
academic historical book, don’t miss out on this one!
*Singapore Politics: Blog*
‘Michael Barr does the study of Singapore a great service with this
path-breaking book. He debunks the ascendant account of Singapore’s
modern history to explain so much more about how and why this
city-state developed as it did. Barr breaks decisively from the
prevailing orthodoxy serving elite political interests to highlight
struggles, forces and dynamics fundamental in shaping modern
Singapore.’
*Garry Rodan, Professor of Politics and International Studies,
Murdoch University*
‘Michael Barr’s “Modern History” of Singapore offers a refreshingly
candid counter-narrative to “The Singapore Story”. Broad, bold and
brazen, Barr’s self-consciously revisionist history of Singapore
breaks away from the dominant meta-narrative of the Singapore state
and its elites. It offers readers a succinct, thematic (and
dramatic) history of Singapore that emphasises the continuities
that transcend the “Founding moment” of 1819 and situate
Singapore’s growth and development within a larger regional and
global framework. This is not a history for data-miners or
squirrels of historical minutiae but for those who seek to better
understand the land, idea and country that is Singapore.’
*Kevin YL Tan, Executive Editor, Asian Journal of Comparative Law
and Professor (Adjunct), Faculty of Law, National University of
Singapore*
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