Malaysia and its indigenous people -- Indian influence and early empires -- West meets East in the archipelago -- Britain takes control of the crossroads -- Singapore in the nineteenth century -- The Malay peninsula until 1874 -- British intervention -- The British in Borneo -- Impact of British rule on Malaya -- Impact of British rule on the Malays -- Singapore: a global trader -- World War II and British Malaya -- Malaya after the war -- Singapore: the road to self-rule -- Malayans take control -- Malaysia 1965-1990 -- Independent Singapore -- Twenty-first century Malaysia -- Twenty-first century Singapore
Summary
In this fully updated, second edition of Crossroads, Jim Baker adds two new chapters that bring Malaysia and Singapore into the middle of the first decade of the 21st century. The original text (which traces the complex currents of history and politics of Malaysia and Singapore'neighbours with a common past) is also revised to re-evaluate events in the context of an expanded history
