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ISBN-13 :  9780190469528

Author:  John Curtis Perry 

Singapore has gained a reputation for being one of the wealthiest and best-educated countries in the world and one of the brightest success stories for a colony-turned-sovereign state, but the country’s path to success was anything but assured. Its strategic location and natural resources both allowed Singapore to profit from global commerce and also made the island an attractive conquest for the world’s naval powers, resulting in centuries of stunting colonialization. In Singapore: Unlikely Power, John Curtis Perry provides an evenhanded and authoritative history of the island nation that ranges from its Malay origins to the present day. Singapore development has been aided by its greatest natural blessing-a natural deepwater port, shielded by mountain ranges from oceanic storms and which sits along one of the most strategic straits in the world, cementing the island’s place as a major shipping entrepot throughout modern history. Perry traces the succession of colonizers, beginning with China in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and followed by the island’s most famous colonizer, Britain, which ruled Singapore until the 1960s excluding the Japanese occupation of World War II. After setting a historical context, Perry turns to the era of independence beginning in the 1960s. Plagued with corruption, inequality, lack of an educated population, Singapore improbably vaulted from essentially third-world status into a first world dynamo over the course of three decades-with much credit due longtime leader Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s first prime minister who led the country for over three decades, who embraced the colonial past, established close ties with former foe Japan, and adopted a resolutely pragmatist approach to economic development. His efforts were successful, and Singapore today is a model regime for other developing states. Singapore’s stunning transformation from a poor and corrupt colonial backwater into an economic powerhouse renowned for its wealth, order, and rectitude is one of the great-and most surprising-success stories of modern era. Singapore is an accessible, comprehensive, and indeed colorful overview of one of the most influential political-economic models in the world and is an enlightening read for anyone interested in how Singapore achieved the unachievable.

Singapore: Unlikely Power 1st Table of contents:

I. Origins
Sea People
Earliest “Singapore”
The Hinge of Eurasia
The Chinese, the Sea, and Southeast Asia
China’s Seafaring Culture Hero
II. Wings of Canvas
Northern Europe Follows the Atlantic Others
British Triumph in Asian Waters
Birth Trauma for Singapore
III. “Queen of the Further East”
The Lure of Singapore
“Chinatown”
Chinese and Britons
Opium and Empire
China on Ebb Tide
Pulsating Port
IV. Empire at Zenith
“The Dirty Ditch”
A Kra Canal?
Wiring the World
Singapore’s Advantage
The Port Responds
Tin Mines and Tin Cans
Rubber Startles the World
Plying the Coast
Blue Water Highways
Globetrotters
Coolies
A Cosmopolitan Culture
“Great Possibilities”
V. Clouds, Thunder, and Storm, 1918–42
Oil Emerges
A Privileged Colonial World
Enter the Japanese
Apprehension Grows
“Battleship without a Bottom”
“The Worst Day of the War”
Rip Current for the Allies
“Lambs at Home, Devils Outside”
Voyage of Netaji
The Rising Sun Sets
VI. “Walking on a Razor’s Edge,” 1945–65
Painful Recovery and Push for Freedom
Singapore’s “Men in White” Displace Colonial Overlords
Struggling for a New Order
Defining an Economy
“Might Well Start Rowing”
VII. “Turfed Out”
Goh Builds Jurong
“Strategic Pragmatism”
A New Schoolhouse
Lion of the Lion City
Embracing Oceanic Revolution
Goodbye to Great Britain
A New City Emerges
VIII. Coming to the Present
Preserving the Environment
Hydro Hub
Looming Threats?
“Brain Services”
Polishing Society
“Asian” Values
The Singapore Grip
Out of Bounds
The Voice of the Internet
IX. Global Hinge?
Acknowledgments

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