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Published by NUS Press, Singapore, 2007
ISBN 10: 9971693623ISBN 13: 9789971693626
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PAPERBACK. 1st edition. 225pp, bw maps, illustrations, text figures and tables, octavo paperback. slight cover wear otherwise very good.
Published by NUS Press 2008-01-30, Singapore, 2008
ISBN 10: 9971694492ISBN 13: 9789971694494
Seller: Blackwell's, London, United Kingdom
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paperback. Condition: New. Language: ENG.
Published by NUS Press, Singapore, 2008
ISBN 10: 9971694115ISBN 13: 9789971694111
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PAPERBACK. Paper edition. 413pp, bw illustrations, octavo paper. slight cover wear otherwise very good.
Published by NUS Press 2005-01-31, Singapore, 2005
ISBN 10: 9971693208ISBN 13: 9789971693206
Seller: Blackwell's, London, United Kingdom
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paperback. Condition: New. Language: ENG.
Published by NUS Press, Singapore, 2007
ISBN 10: 9971693445ISBN 13: 9789971693442
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Softcover. Condition: Fine. 8vo.
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Published by NUS Press 2019-11-30, Singapore, 2019
ISBN 10: 9813250763ISBN 13: 9789813250765
Seller: Blackwell's, London, United Kingdom
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paperback. Condition: New. Language: ENG.
Published by NUS Press., Singapore., 2020
ISBN 10: 9813251182ISBN 13: 9789813251182
Seller: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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ix + 127pp, bibliography. Paperback. "The name of Thomas Stamford Raffles continues to be a mark of prestige in Singapore, more than 200 years after he first established a British factory on the island. Not one but two statues of Raffles stand tall in prominent sites in Singapore?s civic and heritage district. Streets and squares are named after him, and important local businesses use the Raffles name. Does Thomas Stamford Raffles deserve this recognition? Should we continue to celebrate him? Or like the image of Cecil Rhodes in South Africa, must Raffles fall? Those exercised by the discussion and debates around Singapore's 2019 Bicentennial should know that the question was considered at length nearly 50 years ago, in Syed Hussein Alatas' slim but devastating volume Thomas Stamford Raffles: Schemer or Reformer? While publication of the work failed to spark a wide debate on Raffles? legacy in 1970s Singapore, it was noticed by Edward Said, who later cited Alatas? essay as one example of works that ?set themselves the revisionist, critical task of dealing frontally with the metropolitan culture, using the techniques, discourses, and weapons of scholarship and criticism once reserved exclusively for the European.? Nearly 50 years after its original publication, this extended essay on Raffles reads as fresh and relevant. Presented here for a new audience, Schemer or Reformer sets out the key elements of the debate in understanding Raffles' own political philosophy through the record of his actions, not just in Singapore, but in Southeast Asia in the years just before and after Singapore's foundation. A new introduction by Syed Farid Alatas assesses contemporary Singapore's take on Raffles, and how far we have or have not come in thinking through Singapore's colonial legacy." (Publisher's description).
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Published by NUS Press 2017-07-30, Singapore, 2017
ISBN 10: 9814722499ISBN 13: 9789814722490
Seller: Blackwell's, London, United Kingdom
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hardback. Condition: New. Language: ENG.
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Published by NUS Press 2020-11-30, Singapore, 2020
ISBN 10: 9813251166ISBN 13: 9789813251168
Seller: Blackwell's, London, United Kingdom
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paperback. Condition: New. Language: ENG.
Published by NUS Press 2021-02-28, Singapore, 2021
ISBN 10: 9813251328ISBN 13: 9789813251328
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hardback. Condition: New. Language: ENG.
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Published by NUS Press Singapore,, 2021
ISBN 10: 9813251484ISBN 13: 9789813251489
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
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Condition: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
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Published by NUS Press, Singapore, 2017
ISBN 10: 9814722375ISBN 13: 9789814722377
Seller: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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Black and white illustrations, 130pp, paperback. "Born in the Year of the Fire Tiger, Ann Wee moved to Singapore in 1950 to marry into a Singaporean Chinese family, entering into a new world of cultural expectations and domestic rituals. She went on to become a pioneer in Singapore's fledging social welfare department and is often described as the founding mother of social work in Singapore. In A Tiger Remembers, she draws on her decades of experience getting to know the many shapes and forms of the Singapore family and witnessing how they transformed since the '50s. Wee's talent is for remembering and paying homage to the things history books often deem insignificant-things that can contain some of the most illuminating details about the day to day inner workings of families from many backgrounds, such as terms of endearment; the emotional nuance in social relations; questions of hygiene; the stories of convicts; tales of ghost wives and changeling babies; anecdotes from rural clan settlements and migrant dormitories; and the migration of families from squatter settlements into public housing. Affectionately observed and wittily narrated, with a deep appreciation of how far Singapore has come, this book brings to life generations of social change through a focus on the institution of the family." (Publisher's description).
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Published by NUS Press., Singapore., 2015
ISBN 10: 9971698528ISBN 13: 9789971698522
Seller: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xiii + 125pp, glossary, list of place names, bibliography. The Flemish gem trader Jacques de Coutre visited Southeast Asia in the early 17th century, and his lengthy account of his experiences provides a glimpse of Singapore, Johor and the Straits of Melaka during an era for which little written material has survived. This special edition, which presents highlights from the full translation, is designed to provide students, teachers and the wider public with a glimpse of this tumultuous region when it was still controlled by local rulers, and Western colonialism was just gaining a foothold. The author describes dangerous intrigues involving fortune hunters and schemers, as well as local rulers and couriers, adventures that on several occasions nearly cost him his life. The manuscripts come from a bundle of documents preserved at the National Library of Spain in Madrid that includes De Coutre's autobiography and several memorials to the Crowns of Spain and Portugal. Chapters from the autobiography have been excerpted from book I, which covers the writer's life in Southeast Asia between 1593 and 1603. A glossary and list of place names provide information about officials, goods and places mentioned in the text that will be unfamiliar to readers of English.
Published by Singapore: NUS Press (2011), 2011
Seller: BOOK NOW, BENDIGO, VIC, Australia
230x150: xxxii,260pp. black and white illustrations, index. Paperback, Very Good. ISBN: 9789 971 69546 0 , Weight: 530g. .
Published by NUS Press., Singapore., 2007
ISBN 10: 9971693658ISBN 13: 9789971693657
Seller: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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Black and white photographic illustrations, xviii + 372pp, appendix, notes, bibliography, index, paperback. Founded in 1906, the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry is a cultural and economic organisation dedicated to promoting the interests of the Chinese business community. This book describes its changing relationship with the state and with businesses in the region. It also examines Chinese business practices, considering cultural elements as well as state and market forces, and highlights unique features of the Chinese experience in Singapore, this book offers an alternative to conventional political histories.
Published by NUS Press, Singapore, 2016
ISBN 10: 9971698226ISBN 13: 9789971698225
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The Nemesis was the first of a generation of iron-clad, steam-powered naval vessels that established British dominance in Asian waters in the 19th century. The worlds first iron warship, the first vessel with truly watertight compartments, and the first iron vessel to round the Cape of Good Hope, Nemesis represented a staggering new level of military superiority over the oar- and sail-powered forces of Britains Asian rivals. With a shallow draft suited to riverine operations, and flexible armaments, she originated gunboat diplomacy in operations during the First Opium War.While her importance is recognized in the military history literature, the Nemesis story has not been told to modern audiences. This lively narrative creates a vivid sense of life aboard the ship, and the challenges of the new technology for her captains and crew. The book places Nemesis in the historical context of the last years of the East India Company, and in the history of steam power and of iron ships. It tells of her exploits in the First Opium War, upriver in James Brookes Sarawak, in pirate suppression and naval actions across Asia, from Burma to Bombay to the Yangtze River and beyond. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by 2017 NUS Press, Singapore., 2017
Seller: Verandah Books, Sherborne, United Kingdom
246pp. Index. Card covers Fine.
Published by NUS Press, Singapore, 2009
First Edition
PAPERBACK. First edition. 235pp b/w illustrations octavo paper. slight cover wear otherwise very good.
Published by NUS Press., Singapore., 2008
ISBN 10: 9971693909ISBN 13: 9789971693909
Seller: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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xii + 285pp, bibliography, index, paperback. This pioneering volume develops an institutionalist analysis of Malaysia's post-colonial economy by exploring the political economy of development and particularly the interface between economics and law. The various authors show that economic policy initiatives in Malaysia have often been accompanied by corresponding legislative and regulatory reforms intended to create an appropriate legal environment, and that economic problems or crises arising from earlier policies have led to major legislative innovations.The volume begins with a survey of Malaysia's colonial legal heritage and significant postcolonial developments, and the relationship between economic change, institutional developments and the law. Colonial land law transformed the rural Malay population, and the authors show that the routine depiction of this sector of the economy as a 'traditional' relic of the pre-colonial era is misleading. With regard to industry, the government changed course after independence, promoting manufacturing investments and technological progress, and forging new industrial relations between the state and trade unions., Drawing on this background the book rejects claims that corporate governance failures caused the financial crisis of the 1990s, and criticizes claims for the superiority of Anglo-American arrangements for corporate governance.
Published by NUS Press., Singapore., 2016
ISBN 10: 9814722189ISBN 13: 9789814722186
Seller: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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242pp, glossary, list of place names, bibliography, index. Paperback. "Few authors have as much to say about Singapore and Johor in the early 17th century as Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge (c.1570?1632). This admiral of the Dutch East India Company sailed to Asia in 1605 and besieged Portuguese Melaka in 1606 with the help of Malay allies. A massive Portuguese armada arrived from Goa to fight the Dutch at sea, break the siege and relieve the Portuguese colony. During his Asian voyage and on his return to Europe in September 1608, Matelieff penned a series of letters and memorials in which he provided a candid assessment of trading opportunities and politics in Asia. He advised the VOC and leading government officials of the Dutch Republic to take a long term view of Dutch involvement in Asia and fundamentally change the way they were doing business there. Singapore, the Straits region, and Johor assumed a significant role in his overall assessment. At one stage he seriously contemplated establishing the VOC?s main Asian base at a location near the Johor River estuary. On deeper reflection, however, Matelieff and the VOC directors in Europe began to shift their attention southward and instead preferred a location around the Sunda Strait. This was arguably a near miss for Singapore two full centuries before Thomas Stamford Raffles founded the British trading post on the island in 1819." (Publisher's description).
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Published by NUS Press, Singapore, 2010
ISBN 10: 9971694646ISBN 13: 9789971694647
Seller: Blue Whale Books, ABAA, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. No markings. Minor cover wear. Always securely packed. Professional booksellers since 1994. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Published by NUS Press., Singapore., 2015
ISBN 10: 9971696347ISBN 13: 9789971696344
Seller: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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Black and white photographic illustrations, xix + 194pp, paperback. "This book of short stories by Goh Poh Seng tells his adventures as a young Asian student in the Ireland of the 1950s. Brought up in post-war Kuala Lumpur, the impressionable young man finds himself transported to a totally different milieu and culture. The stories follow him from the first tentative steps of his voyage to Europe, to his sojourn in a hostel for Asian students and the shock of boarding life in a boys' Catholic school; continues with his early awakening to the posibility of becoming a writer, together with a total embrace of the cultural and literary pleasures of Dublin. Along the way, he met a colourful tapestry of characters, among them a member of the Anglo-Irish gentry, the suave and charming Tom Pierre from the West Indies, and the much-loved Irish poet Paddy Kavanagh." (Publisher's description).
Published by NUS Press, Singapore., 2019
ISBN 10: 9814722812ISBN 13: 9789814722810
Seller: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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344 pages, 230mm x 160mm Paperback, colour plates, maps, tables, index, bibliography, natural history. Everything you might want to know about Kent Ridge in one book. Kent Ridge, a corner of Singapore island, has been home to the National University of Singapore (NUS) since the 1980s, but the area entered the historical record centuries earlier. From the white sands of its shoreline marked on navigators? maps, to the Alexandra Barracks of the Singapore Mutiny, from tiger traps and plantations to kampong and rich men?s seaside bungalows, the rocky ridge running parallel to Singapore?s western seashore has formed one of the most memorable of the island city-state?s landscapes. Extending from Clementi Road in the west to Alexandra Road in the east, and divided by the ?ninety-nine curves? of South Buona Vista Road, Kent Ridge extends its imaginative pull on many Singaporeans and visitors, but especially those who have graduated?or are studying?at the NUS. This book helps you look beneath the shiny exteriors of today?s institutions, to the area?s geological past, and the wealth of flora and fauna that still can be found here: from indigenous plants such as the tembusu, tiup tiup, and senduduk, to monitor lizards, flying dragons and oriental green snakes. The book guides you through the changing human geography of the region, and tells the inside stories behind the original campus master plan drawn up in the 1970s. Richly illustrated with photos, historical maps and images, each chapter of this book is written by NUS faculty and staff who are passionate about the Ridge. With contributions from Edwin Thumboo, Victor R. Savage, David Higgitt, Hugh Tan, Ho Chi Tim, Erik Holmberg,Tan Chye Guan, Kevin Y.L. Tan, Peck Thian Guan and Lee Fook Ngian.
Published by NUS Press, Singapore, 2016
ISBN 10: 9814722154ISBN 13: 9789814722155
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Paperback. Condition: Good. Ex-library copy, with limited library markings. Firm binding; no loose pages. Cover with minor wear. Better than most ex-library books! 634 pages. This is a large or heavy book and may require additional shipping charges to mail outside of the United States.
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Published by NUS Press (National University of Singapore), Singapore, 2017
ISBN 10: 9814722324ISBN 13: 9789814722322
Seller: Philip Gibbons Books, Newcastle Emlyn, United Kingdom
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Trade Paperback. First edition. ||| Printed and made in Singapore. 300 pages (xx, 280), maps, index; publisher's black and half-tone pictorial card covers. ||| CONDITION: New book awaiting dispatch from the UK. My pictures always show the actual book ||| SHIPPING: UK Second-Class postage is free.
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Published by NUS Press., Singapore., 2009
ISBN 10: 9971694859ISBN 13: 9789971694852
Seller: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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Map, xvii + 288 pages, index, bibliography, notes, glossary, paperback. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with nationalist leaders, activists and guerillas, Aspinall reveals how the Free Aceh Movement went from being a quixotic fantasy to a guerilla army in the space of a generation. Author from Australian National University.
Published by NUS Press., Singapore., 2007
ISBN 10: 9971693615ISBN 13: 9789971693619
Seller: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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Maps, black and white illustrations, xv + 313pp, notes, bibliography, index, paperback. "This intriguing account of the vigorous survival of an Islamic community in the strife-torn borderlands of the lower Mekong delta, and of its creative accommodation to the modernising reforms of the Vietnamese government, shows how Islam provides a unifying focus for the Cham people in their diversely-constituted rural settlements. Although officially regarded as one of Vietnam's nationial minority groups, the multilingual Cham are part of a cosmopolitan, transnational community, and as traders, pilgrims and labour migrants are found throughout mainland Southeast Asia and beyond it." (Publisher's description).
Published by NUS Press., Singapore., 2007
ISBN 10: 9971693461ISBN 13: 9789971693466
Seller: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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Maps, black and white illustrations, xviii +297 pages, index, bibliography, glossary. "By the early nineteenth century, Islam had come to be the religious element in Javanese identity. But it was a particular kind of Islam, here called the 'mystic synthesis'. This Javanese mysticism had three notable characteristics: Javanese held firmly to their identity as Muslims, they carried out the basic ritual obligations of the faith, but they also accepted the reality of local spiritual forces. In the course of the nineteenth century, colonial rule, population pressure and Islamic reform all acted to undermine this 'mystic synthesis'. Pious Muslims became divided amongst adherents of that synthesis, reformers who demanded a more orthoprax way of life, reforming Sufis and those who believed in messianic ideas. A new category of Javanese emerged, people who resisted Islamic reform and began to attenuate their Islamic identity. This group became known as abangan, nominal Muslims, and they constituted a majority of the population. For the first time, a minority of Javanese converted to Christianity. The priyayi elite, Java's aristocracy, meanwhile embraced the forms of modernity represented by their European rulers and the wider advances of modern scientific learning. Some even came to regard the original conversion of the Javanese to Islam as a civilisational mistake, and within this element explicitly anti-Islamic sentiments began to appear. In the early twentieth century these categories became politicised in the context of Indonesia's nascent anti-colonial movements. Thus were born contending political identities that lay behind much of the conflict and bloodshed of twentieth-century Indonesia." (Publisher's description).
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Published by NUS Press., Singapore., 2012
ISBN 10: 9971695634ISBN 13: 9789971695637
Seller: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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257pp, index, paperback. "The impact of the processes of cultural, economic and institutional transformation typically defined as "modernising" have been prevasive in Indonesia and Malaysia over an extended period of time, and have played a central role in shaping the cultures, societies, economics and polities of both countries. The authors in this book engage critically with the concept of modernity, considering the way it has been used in the analysis of economic, political, and cultural processes, and conclude that while Indonesia and Malaysia can both be described as fully modern, their modernities are not merely derivative of the Western understanding of the word. The place and character of modernity appear differently if a local rather than a Western perspective is adopted, and any analysis of the two countries must reflect an understanding of these differences. Written by scholars from both "inside" and "outside" the region, the case studies presented this volume highlight the extent to which the intellectual tools, concepts, and theories commonly used in academic research reflect a European/Western modernist imaginary, and show how the process of conducting social research in Asia might be reconceptualized on the basis of a revised understanding of modernity. In presenting their case that the application of a supposedly 'Western' concept such as modernity to the study of Asia needs to be re-assessed, the authors pose questions relevant to theories of modernity and the study of non-Western societies generally." (Publisher's description).
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Published by NUS Press., Singapore., 2007
Seller: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Black and white photographic illustrations, xxi + 330pp, glossary, notes, bibliography, index, paperback copy in very good condition. Under the New Order regime (1967-98), the Indonesian military sought to monopolise the production of official history and control its contents. The goal was to validate the political role of the armed forces, condemn communism and promote military values. In this detailed examination of the Indonesian military's image-making efforts, Katharine E. McGregor explores the formulation of nationalist history under Suharto, and shows how this effort affected the Indonesian people.