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Singapore Burning: Heroism And Surrender In World War Ii

March 25, 2015

Churchill’s description of the fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942, after Lt-Gen Percival’s surrender led to over 100,000 British, Australian, and Indian troops falling into the hands of the Japanese, was no wartime exaggeration. The Japanese had promised that there would be no Dunkirk in Singapore, and its fall led to imprisonment, torture, and […]
The Kuomintang Movement in British Malaya, 1912-1949

March 25, 2015

The Kuomintang (KMT) – the first legalised political party and movement in modern Malaysian and Singaporean history – is studied against the background of British colonial rule, the changing political circumstances and fortunes in China and the rising and waning of Malayan Chinese nationalism from 1894. While it highlights the development of the Malayan KMT […]
Firebirds: The Best First Person Account of Helicopter Combat in Vietnam Ever Written

March 25, 2015

Chuck Carlock volunteered to become a helicopter pilot in August 1966, convinced that by the time he finished training, the Vietnam War would be over. Little did he know that he would see some of the war’s most intense action, including the Tet offensives. Carlock portrays countless dangers, from an elusive enemy and treacherous terrain […]
The Fall of Singapore: 90 Days: November 1941-February 1942

March 25, 2015

This book provides a day-by-day history of the Malayan Campaign and the Fall of Singapore from the first alerts as the British prepared to move their forces on to a war footing on 29 November, through the fighting, to the Japanese imposing their rule on the Chinese in Singapore on 26 February – a total […]
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy:Building a Global Policy School in Asia

March 25, 2015

In an industry of higher education that measures the longevity of its leading institutions in decades and centuries, the establishment and rapid growth of the eight-year-old Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKY School), National University of Singapore, is a remarkable story that deserves to be told. The five co-authors, all of whom were […]
Courage Under Fire: Testing Epictetus’s Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behavior (Hoover Essays)

March 25, 2015

When physical disability from combat wounds brought about Jim Stockdale’s early retirement from military life, he had the distinction of being the only three-star officer in the history of the navy to wear both aviator wings and the Congressional Medal of Honor. His writings have been many and varied, but all converge on the central […]
The Singapore and Melaka Straits: Violence, Security and Diplomacy in the 17th Century

March 25, 2015

The Singapore and Melaka Straits are a place where regional and long-distance maritime trading networks converge, linking Europe, the Mediterranean, eastern Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and the Indian subcontinent with key centres of trade in Thailand, Indochina, insular Southeast Asia, China, Korea and Japan. The first half of the 17th century brought heightened political, commercial […]
The Great Hill Stations Of Asia

March 25, 2015

For the European and later the American colonial soldier, the civil administrator and his clerk, the merchant, the missionary, and the families who followed them east of Suez, daily life was less a matter of advancing the glory of God or empire than a battle for survival against sunstroke, dysentery, cholera, malaria, and a host […]
Phoenix Rising: Narratives in Nyonya Beadwork from the Straits Settlements

March 25, 2015

Intricate, meticulously crafted and visually distinctive. Nyonya beadwork occupies a significant role in the cultural imaginary of the Peranakan Chinese, the acculturated descendants of Chinese migrants to the Malay peninsula and the Indonesian archipelago. Drawing on private and public collections in Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, Europe, and the United States, this book offers a rigorous art-historical […]
The Other Cold War (Columbia Studies in International and Global History)

March 25, 2015

In this conceptually bold project, Heonik Kwon uses anthropology to interrogate the cold war’s cultural and historical narratives. Adopting a truly panoramic view of local politics and international events, he challenges the notion that the cold war was a global struggle fought uniformly around the world and that the end of the war marked a […]

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