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This unique study in the history of education examines decolonization in terms of how it changed the subject of history in the school curriculum of two colonized countries - Malaysia and Singapore.

Commemoration of war is done through sport on Anzac Day to remember Australia's war dead. War, Sport and the Anzac Tradition traces the creation of this sporting tradition at Gallipoli in 1915, and how it has evolved from late Victorian and Edwardian ideas of masculinity extolling prowess on the sports field as fostering prowess on the battlefield.

This unique study in the history of education examines decolonization in terms of how it changed the subject of history in the school curriculum of two colonized countries ¿ Malaysia and Singapore.

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Singapore under the ruling People¿s Action Party government has been categorized as a developmental state, which has utilized education as an instrument of its economic policies and nation building agenda. Having said that, the colonial state had been using education to meet the demands of its colonial economy well before the rise of the post-independence developmental state. Education, Industrialization and the End of Empire in Singapore exam...

On February 15, 1942 Singapore surrendered. It was the beginning of the end for the British Empire. Almost before the firing stopped, the controversy started. Could Singapore have been saved if more tanks or aircraft had been provided, or if Britain had denied Japan landing sites in Thailand? Could the tide have been turned as late as February 15, if fewer Australian troops had deserted? The glut of scapegoats-Churchill, British commanders, Au...

Using archival, oral and literary sources, Blackburn and Hack along with an impressive team of international contributors, seek to rectify the obscured picture of the Japanese captive by bringing together a collection of essays covering an extremely broad range of forgotten captives.

Japanese World War II POW camps conjure up a notorious picture of deprivation and brutality. The idea that sport, of all things, flourished in such conditions is hard to envisage - but it did. This tells the story everyone forgot - of how sport became a lifeline for POWs after the fall of Singapore, when 50, 000 Australian and British soldiers became prisoners of the Japanese. Inspiring and absorbing, it shows that in unimaginable conditions p...

Major researchers in the field present overviews of current thinking about the form and determinants of macroecological patterns. Each section presents different viewpoints on the answer to a key question in macroecology: Why are most species rare and small-bodied, and restricted in their distribution?

Examines the experiences of captivity in Japanese-occupied Asia. This book explores differences in how captivity was experienced between 1941 and 1945, and has been remembered since.