History

C. M. Turnbull’s one-volume history of Singapore has been an essential resource since its first edition was published in 1977. Revised fully twice,...

Among the many groups of workers whose labor built Singapore in the 20th century, there may be none as marginalized in memory as the women who trav...

translated by John H. McGlynn In August 1883 massive volcanic eruptions destroyed two-thirds of the island of Krakatau, in the Sunda Strait between...

Officially established in 1878, the natural history collection originally housed at the Raffles Museum now has more than 560,000 specimens in its c...

Between 1880 and 1930 colonial Singapore attracted tens of thousands of Chinese immigrant laborers, brought to serve its rapidly growing economy. T...

The overland Silk Road linking China with West Asia and Europe is a famous and fabled trade route. The sea route that was its alternative was argua...

International politics in Southeast Asia since end of the Cold War in 1990 can be understood within the frames of order and an emerging regionalism...

Southeast Asian Lives presents life stories of ordinary people in Southeast Asia, one of the most dynamic and rapidly changing regions in the world...

Historians rely on Singapore's strategic position to explain its great success as a royal trading port in the 14th century, and as a British colony...

Surabaya, 1945 - 2010 presents the recent history of one of Indonesia's great port cities as viewed from a crowded low-income neighbourhood (kampun...

Javanese shadow puppetry is a sophisticated dramatic form, often felt to be at the heart of Javanese culture, drawing on classic texts but with imp...

For most of its modern history, to speak of Singapore was to speak of the Singapore River, physical centre of the city and site of the greater part...

The book, using a small group of left-wing student activists as a prism, explores the complex politics that underpinned the making of nation-states...