Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. List of Tables and Illustrations 7
4. Foreword 9
5. 1. Globalising the History of Singapore 11
6. 2. Situating Temasik within the Larger Regional Context: Maritime Asia and Malay State Formation in the Pre-Modern Era 27
7. 3. The Singapore River/Port in a Global Context 51
8. 4. ‘Walls of Illusion’: Information Generation in Colonial Singapore and the Reporting of the Mahdi-Rebellion in Sudan, 1887-1890 67
9. 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 89
10. 6. Social Discourse and Economic Functions: The Singapore Chinese in Japan’s Southward Expansion between 1914 and 1941 111
11. 7. The Dynamics of Trans-Regional Business and National Politics: The Impact of Events in China on Fujian-Singapore Tea Trading Networks, 1920-1960 135
12. 8. Rambutans in the Picture: Han Wai Toon and the Articulation of Space by the Overseas Chinese in Singapore 151
13. 9. The Global Effects of an Ethnic Riot: Singapore, 1950-1954 173
14. 10. The British Military Withdrawal from Singapore and the Anatomy of a Catalyst 195
15. 11. Bringing the International and Transnational back in: Singapore, Decolonisation, and the Cold War 215
16. 12. The Global and the Regional in Lee Kuan Yew’s Strategic Thought: The Early Cold War Years 235
17. 13. A Brief History of the Hub: Navigating between ‘Global’ and ‘Asian’ in Singapore’s Knowledge Economy Discourse 269
18. About the Contributors 291
19. Bibliography 297