Singapore: A Biography
Book Details
PublisherHong Kong University Press
ISBN / ASIN9888028170
ISBN-139789888028177
AvailabilityUsually ships in 1 to 4 weeks
Sales Rank1,713,272
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE, 2010
WINNER OF THE 2010 ASIA PACIFIC PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION GOLD MEDAL
Singapore: A Biography takes you there - to those critical moments in the island's past, as captured through the personal accounts of people who actually lived through them. Encounter violent unrest on the city's streets, the jostling down its corridors of power, the high life of its up-and-coming elites, and the daily struggles of existence that lay beyond its five-foot ways, in an epic drama that stretches back over seven centuries. Grounded in scholarship yet fired by the imagination, this book tells a new Singapore story - one more dramatic, complex and engrossing than you might expect.
WINNER OF THE 2010 ASIA PACIFIC PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION GOLD MEDAL
Singapore: A Biography takes you there - to those critical moments in the island's past, as captured through the personal accounts of people who actually lived through them. Encounter violent unrest on the city's streets, the jostling down its corridors of power, the high life of its up-and-coming elites, and the daily struggles of existence that lay beyond its five-foot ways, in an epic drama that stretches back over seven centuries. Grounded in scholarship yet fired by the imagination, this book tells a new Singapore story - one more dramatic, complex and engrossing than you might expect.

