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This volume examines Singaporea (TM)s culture of control, exploring the city-statea (TM)s colonial heritage as well as the forces that have helped to mould its current social landscape. Taking a comparative approach, Trocki demonstrates the links between Singaporea (TM)s colonial past and independent present, focusing on the development of indigenous social and political movements. In particular, the book examines the efforts of Lee Yew Kuan, ...

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The drug trade was a significant element underpinning the whole of colonial market expansion/ British imperial economy. This work explores in detail the growth and development of the opium trade in relation to colonial market expansion.

Examines Singapore's culture of control, exploring the city-state's colonial heritage as well as the forces that have helped to mould its social landscape.

Engagingly written, with lay readers as much as specialists in mind, this book is fascinating reading for historians and social scientists as well as those involved in Asian studies or economic history.

An essay collection that studies workaday, regional politics in Southeast Asia and its implications for evolving democracies. The contributors examine the electoral process, conflicts between central and local governments, conflicts between individual...

Offers a reinterpretation of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Malaysian history, revealing continuities between pre-colonial and colonial periods that have been obscured by attention given to the European intrusion.