Singapore: The Unexpected Nation - Hardcover

Cheng, Edwin Lee Siew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9812307966 ISBN 13: 9789812307965

Publisher: Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2008

Synopsis

This book deals with Singapore's transition from a British Crown Colony to a state in the Federation of Malaysia, and expulsion from the Federation to become a separate independent nation. For the leaders of Singapore's PAP Government, Malaysia was a traumatic experience. Yet, but for it, they might never have found the resolve and the secret of building this extraordinary nation, this nation based on Singapore alone that they and an entire generation had once believed an impossibility. This story of nation-building deals with topics on national (army) service, economic development, education in schools and in universities, housing and home ownership. It deals also with issues of ethnicity and national identity in the context of challenges from within and without, in the latter case from globalization and global Islamism.

About this title

About the Author:

Edwin Lee, former Professor of History, National University of Singapore.

About this edition

• Publisher: Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 9812307966
• ISBN 13: 9789812307965
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 732