Author: Abu Talib Ahmad
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0896802280
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 419
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Annotation Southeast Asian scholars may have special insights into their respective countries, but they are just as easily infected by political and didactic functions of their national histories as any historian. The editors (a professor and former professor with the School of Humanities, U. Sains Malaysia) present 15 papers in which Southeast Asian scholars turn a critical eye on their national historiographies. Five of the papers explore broad methodological issues, while others examine particular historiographic traditions from Burma (Myanmar), Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand. The final group consists of case studies of the application of new methodologies and understandings to particular historical events or periods. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Author: Ernest Chin Tiong Chew
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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This is the first of a series of five volumes on the ASEAN countries being published by Oxford University Press in collaboration with the Southeast Asian Studies Program. In 1819 Thomas Stamford Raffles established an outpost of British India on a sparsely populated island at the southern end of the Straits of Malacca. This book tells how that settlement became a Crown Colony that was for over 100 years one of the most prosperous ports not just of British Malaya, but in the entire British Empire. This multi-faceted historical process is discussed by eighteen Singapore scholars. Starting with a short survey of the pre-modern history of Singapore, their work provides both a chronological account of events and specialized studies including community, the family, education, mass media, housing, health care, welfare, population growth, and national identity.
Author: C.J.W.-L. Wee
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 9789622098596
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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How does one comprehend the phenomenon of the modernization of an Asian society in a globalized East Asian context? With this opening question, the author proceeds to give an account of how the modernization processes for postcolonial societies in Asia, such as those of India, Malaysia, and Singapore, are fraught with collaborations and conflicts between different socio-political, historical, economic, and cultural agents. Such ambivalent dynamics contribute to what Wee argues as a 'revealing distortion' of the extant models of Western modernity, which is nonetheless rooted in the politics of worldwide capitalism. Wee's narrative refuses to accept the uncritical interpretation of the modernizing processes in Asia as liberation from the hegemony of Euro-American capitalism. But neither is Wee prepared to concede that all cultural initiatives in the postcolonial societies are, therefore, denied all power to devise alternative forms of expression in the face of this haunting presence. It is the persistent effort to see the many faces of modernization in Asia in their full complexity that sets this study apart. Readers will discover that what seems to be the modernization of a single geopolitical entity is inevitably linked to the dynamics of various agents in other locations at different times, which makes us reflect on the existence of the many 'distortions' in our societies.
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Category : Labor supply
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Author: United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 620
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Author: Michael Benedict Zuzik
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Author: Constance Mary Turnbull
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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This book traces the development of Singapore from 1819, when the English East India Company established a trading settlement on the island, until 1985, which ended Singapore's first twenty years as an independent nation. Based on research into government records, newspapers, private papers and secondary works, it provides the first full-scale history of modern Singapore.
Author: United States. Department of State. Office of Media Services
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Category : Area studies
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Author: University of Singapore
Publisher: [Singapore] : University of Singapore
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Category : Singapore
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Consists of 15 papers written chiefly by staff members of the University of Singapore to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the founding of Singapore.
