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ISBN 13 : 9789811199820
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Raffles in Southeast Asia written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exhibition catalog of Raffles in Southeast Asia Exhibition, Singapore, 2019.
Author : Alfian Sa'at
Publisher : Ethos Books
ISBN 13 : 9811490236
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Raffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History written by Alfian Sa'at and published by Ethos Books. This book was released on 2022-08-19 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did independent Singapore celebrate two hundred years of its founding as a British colony in 2019? What does Merdeka mean for Singaporeans? And what are the possibilities of doing decolonial history in Singapore? Raffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History presents essays by historians, literary scholars and artists which grapple with these questions. The volume also reproduces some of the source material used in the play Merdeka / 獨立 / சுதந்திரம் (Wild Rice, 2019). Taken together, the book shows how the contradictions of independent nationhood haunt Singaporeans' collective and personal stories about Merdeka. It points to the need for a Merdeka history: an open and fearless culture of historical reckoning that not only untangles us from colonial narratives, but proposes emancipatory possibilities.
Author : Hussein Alatas (Syed)
Publisher : National University of Singapore Press
ISBN 13 : 9789813251182
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Thomas Stamford Raffles written by Hussein Alatas (Syed) and published by National University of Singapore Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than two hundred years after Thomas Stamford Raffles established a British factory on the island of Singapore, he continues to be a towering figure in the nation. Not one but two statues of Raffles stand prominently in Singapore's civic and heritage district, streets and squares are named after him, and important local businesses use his name. But does Raffles deserve this recognition? Should he continue to be celebrated--or like Cecil Rhodes in South Africa, must Raffles fall? This is not a new question--in fact, it was considered at length as far back as 1971, in Syed Hussein Alatas's slim but devastating volume Thomas Stamford Raffles: Schemer or Reformer?. While the book failed to spark a wide debate on Raffles's legacy in 1970s Singapore, nearly 50 years after its original publication this powerful work feels wholly fresh and relevant. This edition features a new introduction by Syed Farid Alatas assessing contemporary Singapore's take on Raffles, and how far we have, or have not, come in thinking through Singapore's colonial legacy.
Author : Kevin Y.L. Tan
Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 : 9971698552
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (716 download)
Download or read book Of Whales and Dinosaurs written by Kevin Y.L. Tan and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2015-04-18 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Singapore's collection of Southeast Asian animals–one of the world's largest–dates back to the old Raffles Museum, officially established in 1878.With the opening of the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum in 2015, the original Raffles Museum has "reincarnated" and the loop on its remarkable 127-year history has closed. Beneath the sleek exterior of today's modern museum building lies a saga of titanic struggles and changes. That the collections survived at all–through the multiple challenges of the nineteenth century, the disruption of World War Two, and its potential disintegration in the face of Singapore's modernization–is nothing short of miraculous. This book is not only an institutional history of the museum but also tells the story of frustrations, commitment and courage of the numerous individuals who battled officialdom, innovated endlessly and overcame the odds to protect Singapore's natural history heritage. The book features 108 historical photographs and natural history illustrations printed in full colour throughout.
Author : Charles Edward Wurtzburg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 814 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Raffles of the Eastern Isles written by Charles Edward Wurtzburg and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sarah Tiffin
Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 : 9971698498
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (716 download)
Download or read book Southeast Asia in Ruins written by Sarah Tiffin and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British artists and commentators in the late 18th and early 19th century encoded the twin aspirations of progress and power in images and descriptions of Southeast Asia’s ruined Hindu and Buddhist candi, pagodas, wats and monuments. To the British eye, images of the remains of past civilisations allowed, indeed stimulated, philosophical meditations on the rise and decline of entire empires. Ruins were witnesses to the fall, humbling and disturbingly prophetic prompts to speculation on imperial failure, and the remains of the Buddhist and Hindu monuments scattered across Southeast Asia proved no exception. This important study of a highly appealing but relatively neglected body of work adds multiple dimensions to the history of art and image production in Britain of the period, showing how the anxieties of empire were encoded in the genre of landscape paintings and prints.
Author : Kwa Chong Guan
Publisher : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
ISBN 13 : 9814951420
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (149 download)
Download or read book 1819 & Before written by Kwa Chong Guan and published by ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. This book was released on 2021-04-02 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays published here began as a series of lectures commemorating the bicentennial of Thomas Stamford Raffles’s establishment of a British Station in 1819. The essays draw on thirty-five years of archaeological investigations on and around Fort Canning, new readings of the Malay Annals, early Chinese records reporting Singapore, and the Portuguese and Dutch records to probe and challenge our understanding of Singapore’s history before Raffles. Altogether, these essays suggest that Singapore had a pre-1819 past that was deeply connected to the millennium-long maritime history of the Straits of Melaka and its links to the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean.
Author : Tim Hannigan
Publisher : Monsoon Books
ISBN 13 : 981435886X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)
Download or read book Raffles and the British Invasion of Java written by Tim Hannigan and published by Monsoon Books. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1811, an army of 10,000 British redcoats splashed ashore through the muddy shallows off Batavia (now Jakarta) to conquer the Dutch colony of Java. They would remain there for five turbulent years. Drawing on both British and Javanese archival sources, this narrative history-cum-biography explores the bloody battles and furious controversies that marked British rule in Java, and reveals the future founder of Singapore, Thomas Stamford Raffles in a shocking new light.
Author : Gareth Knapman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315452162
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Race and British Colonialism in Southeast Asia, 1770-1870 written by Gareth Knapman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores colonial debates on race, liberalism, colonial expansion and equality in South-East Asia, focusing on the writings of John Crawfurd, one of the British Empire’s leading racial theorists and colonial administrators in Asia.
Author : D R SarDesai
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429972709
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Southeast Asia written by D R SarDesai and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southeast Asia: Past and Present offers a balanced and readable account of the region from ancient to modern times, covering traditional history as well as current events. D. R. SarDesai achieves a delicate balance exploring the importance of the period of European colonial rule in Southeast Asia without overemphasis as he introduces students to the regions and peoples of Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, Indonesia, East Timor, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and the Philippines. Readers will find insightful introductions at the beginning of each part to aid in understanding the global and political implications of the events discussed. The seventh edition is thoroughly updated to offer coverage of current events, including the historic 2012 elections in Myanmar and Aung San Suu Kyi’s successful bid for election to the Parliament, the rise of Yingluck Shinawatra to the position of prime minister of neighboring Thailand, and the consolidation of the ASEAN and its consideration of China’s claim to the South China Sea. Combining thematic and chronological approaches with the study of colonialism, nationalism, historical and cultural heritage, and current events, Southeast Asia manages to convey an Asian point of view throughout. The second edition of Southeast Asian History: Essential Readings (978-0-8133-4857-5) is also available from D. R. SarDesai and Westview Press as a complementary or a standalone text.
Author : Gretchen Liu
Publisher : Didier Millet,Csi
ISBN 13 : 9789814155557
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Raffles Hotel written by Gretchen Liu and published by Didier Millet,Csi. This book was released on 2006 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone interested in the history of Singapore and Southeast Asia will find Raffles Hotel essential and enjoyable.
Author : Gareth Knapman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351622765
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Liberalism and the British Empire in Southeast Asia written by Gareth Knapman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays collects the leading scholars on British colonial thought in Southeast Asia to consider the question: what was the relationship between liberalism and the British Empire in Southeast Asia? The empire builders in Southeast Asia: Lord Minto, William Farquhar, John Leyden, Thomas Stamford Raffles, and John Crawfurd - to name a few - were fervent believers in a liberal free trade order in Southeast Asia. Many recent studies of British imperialism, and European imperialism more generally, have addressed how the anti-imperialist tradition of Eighteenth century liberalism was increasingly intertwined with the discourses of empire, freedom, race and economics in the nineteenth century. This collection extends those studies to look at the impact of liberalism on. British colonialism in Southeast Asia and early nineteenth century Southeast Asia we see some of the first attempts at developing multicultural democracies within the colonies, experiments in free trade and attempts to use free trade to prevent war and colonisation.
Author : Lady Sophia Raffles
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 876 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Memoir of the Life and Public Services of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles written by Lady Sophia Raffles and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Syed Muhd. Khairudin Aljunied
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Rethinking Raffles written by Syed Muhd. Khairudin Aljunied and published by Cavendish Square Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a study of Sir Stamford Raffles' letters and related documents, the book argues that Raffles had a variety of opinions about the religions observed amongst the Malays that he encountered during his tour of duty in the Malay Archipelago. These religions included Islam, Hinduism-Buddhism, Paganism and Christianity. The common idea running through these opinions that the author had identified was Raffles' unwillingness to accept that the Malays should continue to maintain the religious beliefs which he observed amongst them. The author further argues that Raffles had an ambivalent stance with regard to these religions, an attitude that would attest to the "shades of alterity" lingering in his mind and perhaps in the minds of most Europeans at that time. Another objective of this book is to uncover some of Raffles' ideas on what constitutes the term 'religion'. The author asserts that Raffles' unequal and inconsistent accounts of the religions were an outcome of his repeated emphasis on several features that he considered were essential to any religion. TARGET AUDIENCE: Policy makers, researchers, tertiary students, and others who are interested in the study of Stamford Raffles and British colonial history.
Author : Farish A. Noor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789463724418
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (244 download)
Download or read book Data-gathering in Colonial Southeast Asia 1800-1900 written by Farish A. Noor and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an original work on the role of data collection in colonial Southeast Asia, one of the first of its kind in the domain of Southeast Asian Studies. Its originality lies in the manner that it examines colonial data-gathering in terms of the concept of the panopticon and how the identities of colonized Southeast Asians were framed as a result. Professor Syed Farid Alatas, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore
Author : John D. Greenwood
Publisher : Monsoon Books
ISBN 13 : 1912049198
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Forbidden Hill written by John D. Greenwood and published by Monsoon Books. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 6 February 1819, Stamford Raffles, William Farquhar, Temenggong Abdul Rahman and Sultan Hussein signed a treaty that granted the British East India Company the right to establish a trading settlement on the sparsely populated island of Singapore. Forbidden Hill (Singapore Saga, Vol. 1) is a meticulously researched and vividly imagined historical narrative that brings to life the stories of the early European, Malay, Chinese and Indian pioneers––the administrators, merchants, policemen, boatmen, coolies, concubines, slaves and secret society soldiers––whose vision and intrigues drive the rapid expansion of the port city in the early decades of the nineteenth century. While Raffles and Farquhar clash over the administration of the settlement, the Scottish merchant adventurer Ronnie Simpson and Englishwoman Sarah Hemmings find love and redemption as they battle an American duelist and Illanun pirates. As the ghosts of the rajahs of the ancient city of Singapura fade into the shadows of Forbidden Hill, the new settlers forge their linked destinies in the ‘emporium of the Eastern seas’.
Author : Indraneil Das
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472920589
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)
Download or read book Field Guide to the Reptiles of South-East Asia written by Indraneil Das and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South-East Asia is home to one of the most diverse reptile faunas on Earth. A Field Guide to the Reptiles of South-East Asia is the first comprehensive guide to the snakes, lizards, crocodiles, tortoises and turtles of the region. Covering more than 1000 species and subspecies in thorough detail, this field guide provides authoritative, up-to-date information on identification, habitat, behaviour, subspecies, distribution and status. The informative text explains the behaviour and morphology of reptiles, as well as how to measure and identify species according to scale counts and other anatomical features. South-East Asia is one of the most important ecotourism destinations in the world, with an expanding local market as wildlife conservation assumes greater prominence locally. This guide is essential reading for anyone interested in the wildlife of the region - wildlife enthusiasts, students, conservation planners and specialists alike.
