Seven hundred years : a history of Singapore /
Assessments of Singapore's history invariably revolve around Sir Stamford Raffles' arrival in 1819. Before this date, we've been told, "nothing very much appears to have happened in Singapore." Pre-1819 Singapore was a sleepy, historically insignificant fishing village, litt...
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Singapore :
National Library Board : Marshall Cavendish Editions,
[2019].
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Table of Contents:
- Writing Singapore's history
- The 14th century : advent of a "great city"
- The 15th century : feeder port and homeland of Melaka's Naval Forces
- The 16th century : Shahbandaria of the Johor Sultanate
- The 17th century : contested waterways
- The 18th century : from Malay Enterpôt to colonial port-city
- The 19th century : Port-City of the British Empire
- The 20th century : becoming a global city-state
- Singapore's challenge.