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Title Singapore from Temasek to the 21st century : reinventing the global city / edited by Karl Hack and Jean-Louis Margolin, with Karine Delaye
Published Singapore : NUS Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 458 pages :) : illustrations (some color)
Contents Pt. I The global city : structures, themes and the long duration -- 1 Singapore : reinventing the global city / Karl Hack and Jean-Louis Margolin -- 2 Singapore between cosmopolis and nation / Anthony Reid -- 3 Casting Singapore's history in the longue duree / Derek Heng -- 4 Singapore's strategy of regionalisation / Nathalie Fau -- pt. II Singapore : visions and remakings -- 5 Temasek to Singapura : Singapore in the 14th to 15th centuries / John Miksic -- 6 Singapura as a central place in Malay history and identity / Kwa Chong Gwan -- 7 Imagined centrality : sir Stamford Raffles and the birth of modern Singapore /Christina Skott -- 8 Singapore : a model for Indochina? (1860-1920s) / Karine Delaye -- 9 Singapore as a central place between the west, Asia and China : from the 19th to 21st centuries / Catherine Paix -- 10 The Malayan trajectory in Singapore's history / Karl Hack -- 11 The people's action party blueprint for Singapore, 1959-1965 / Jean-Louis Margolin -- 12 Singapore's changing international orientations, 1960-1990 / Ooi Giok Ling -- 13 Remaking Singapore, 1990-2004 : from disciplinarian development to bureaucratic proxy democracy / Karl Hack -- 14 Singapore's holistic approach to urban planning : centrality, singularity, innovation and reinvention / Charles Goldblum
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-435) and index
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Subject HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia
Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East.
History & Archaeology.
East Asia.
SUBJECT Singapore -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89004087
Subject Singapore.
Singapur
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
Author Delaye, Karine, editor.
Margolin, Jean-Louis, 1952- editor.
Hack, Karl, editor.
LC no. 2010353737
ISBN 9789971695897
9971695898