Search Results: Singapore - History from The Penang Bookshelf

Ilfracombe, UK: Arthur H Stockwell, 2015. Paperback. Very Good. The reminiscences of a British expatriate who arrived in Singapore just as the city state was coming to terms with its independence, modernisation and the growth of its tourist industry. 60 pages. Weight 0.4kg. Post free within Malaysia. Weight 0.4kg. Post free within Malaysia The book looks new except for a little dirt on one corner of the back cover

Singapore: Editions Didier Millet, 2009. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. A history of Singapore from 1959 to 2009 as reported in the press. However, the contents are not limited to politics and the markets, but embrace the whole gamut of Singapore life during this period, from scandals and crime to pop and fashion. 380 pages with an index. Weight 3kg Post free within Malaysia but will incur additional postage charges when posted elsewhere. The dust jacket and cover have slight wear. Otherwise the book looks new. The original CD Rom issued with the publication is missing.

Singapore: Talisman Publishing, 2004. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 27-4-16. A step by step guide in readable language to the evolution of Singapore's civic institutions and political processes from British times up to the end of the 20th century. 188 pages. Weight: 0.4kg. Post free within Malaysia The cover has minimal signs of use. The text block has darkened slightly in places. The binding is tight and the text clear with minimal tanning throughout.

London: Routledge, 1995. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Chua, an academic at the National University of Singapore when the book was written, analyses the Singapore Government's move away from Western concepts in an attempt to repackage the national ideology into a form of Asian communitarianism. He tries to avoid a polarised view by concentrating on the political issues. 236 pages. Please see the scan of the contents page for further details. Weight: 0.7kg. Post free within Malaysia The spine of the dust jacket has been sunned slightly

Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. New/9789813203426. An examination of how the Singapore Government has developed its own successful brand of leadership in managing the interaction between policy, execution and culture, both existing and aspirational. While not suggesting the Singapore model can be or should be exactly imitated elsewhere, the authors' detail could prove helpful in adapting some parts of the methodology of coping with growth and change elsewhere. 508 pages with an index. Weight 1.1kg Post free within Malaysia but will incur additional postage charges when posted elsewhere.

Singapore: Talisman Publishing, 2006. Hardcover. Very Good. One great recommendation for this work is Justin Corfield's involvement. He is the author of numerous bibliographies and other compendiums relating mainly to the history Malaysia and Singapore. In this work the authors focus on Singapore's history since independence, while, where relevant, referring back to the city state's past history. 279 pages with a bibliography and an index. Weight 1.2kg Post free within Malaysia but will incur additional postage charges when posted elsewhere. The cover has a very small amount of wear and there are a scuff mark on the text block. Otherwise the book looks new.

Petaling Jaya, Malaysia: SIRD, 2010. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Some of the survivors of the University Socialist Club, publishers of the Fajar magazine, recount their experiences as the standard bearers of the intellectual left in the Singapore of the 1950s and 1960s. They championed democracy, social justice and multiculturalism in a radical new Malayan state. They survived an attempt by the British to ban the publication in 1954, but succumbed to banning by the Government of Singapore in 1963. Ironically that Government was headed by Lee Kuan Yew, who, as Harry Lee, was a lawyer for 'The Fajar 8' at their trial in 1954. Very Good First Edition 328 pages with an index. Weight: 1 kg. Post free within Malaysia The binding is tight, the text clear and there is fairly mild tanning of the pages.

Singapore: Singapore Indian Association, 2008. Hardcover. Near Fine. Rather than claiming to be a comprehensive of Indians' contribution to the growth of Singapore from Raffles' time onwards, the author instead highlights significant events in the 19th and 20th centuries. 153 pages. Please see the scan of the contents page for further details. Weight: 0.5kg. Post free within Malaysia The book looks almost new and there is a dedication signed by the author

Singapore: Archives And Oral History Dept, 1981. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Produced to accompany a 1981 exhibition in Singapore, this book documents the rapid transformation of the city's transport system from the jinrickshaw, introduced in the 1880s to the Rapid Transport System, begun in 1972. With many historic photographs. Weight: 0.6kg. Post free within Malaysia There is minimal cover wear. Otherwise the book looks new.

Lexington, Mass, USA: Lexington Books, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Good+. This interesting study was carried out in Singapore shortly after the Malaysian ethnic disturbances of 1969. The author seeks to examine the moral bond that ideally exists between the state and its citizens in order to make government work. How is this achieved in the more difficult circumstances of a racially mixed state where one race may be dominant? How is this legitimacy maintained when there is racial tension? The author tackles all these issues in the Singapore of the time, a more fragile state than it is now. 157 pages including several figures and tables, notes and an index. The book's chapters include 1 - Introduction, 2 - Singapore's Past and Present, 3 - The Causes of Legitimacy, 4 - The Causes of Ethnic Hostility, 5 - People and Politics, 6 - An Analysis of Public Policy, 7 - From a Little Country to a Large Theory. Weight: 0.5kg. Post free within Malaysia This is an ex library book with stickers on the… Read More

Singapore: NUS Press, 2017. Paperback. New. Although Singapore's economic success has brought the country into prominence, not only in Southeast Asia, but globally, probably few of the economy's overseas cheerleaders realise the extent to which this success is based on a challenge to Western liberal economic thinking. In this book the author traces the evolution of the three bases of the country's communitarian ideology - public housing, multiracialism and state capitalism - and their role in Singapore's transformation. He also looks at how the death of Lee Kuan Yew and the end of the Cold War have affected this development and how the dominant PAP Government has responded. 223 pages. For further details, please see the scanned contents page. Weight 0.5kg. Post free within Malaysia