Malaysia: Ridge Books, 2019. 23 halftones, 2 maps, 2 tables, 264pp, paperback. The environmental turn in the humanities and social sciences has meant a new focus on the history of animals. This is one of the first books to look across species at animals in a colonial, urban society. If..... More
Singapore: NUS Press, 2016. 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..... More
Singapore. NUS Press. 2015. 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..... More
Milson's Point. Alfred Street Press. 2021. Black & white and colour illustrations, 164pp, bibliography. Paperback. "The life of Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski reads like an adventure story, an adventure story that could be written by somebody like Joseph Conrad. The young Conrad dreamed of a life at sea, he eventually..... More
Two charts, xxviii + 495pp, index, paperback. Singapore had to build a military from scratch starting in 1965, with compulsory national service introduced in 1967. This is the story of the Singapore Armed Forces in the form of a collective portrait of its leaders. Tens of thousands of Singaporeans (overwhelmingly..... More
Singapore: NUS Press, 2018. Colour and black and white illustrations, 408pp, index, paperback. 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 after 1819. What, then, accounts for the many centuries when it seemed..... More
Singapore. NUS Press. 2020. Black and white photographic illustrations, xvii + 238pp, index, hardback in dustjacket. We came into the public service... at a time when there were only two choices – do or die – hrh Herman Hochstadt, or hrh as he is better known, joined the civil service..... More
Singapore. NUS Press. 2013. Black and white photographic illustrations, xxvii + 315 pp, index, bibliography, glossary, paperback. "The crowded, bustling, 'squatter' kampongs so familiar across Southeast Asia have long since disappeared from Singapore, leaving few visible traces of their historical influence on the life in the city-state. In one such..... More
Singapore. NUS Press. 2015. 252pp, index, paperback. When referring to this item please quote stockid 155912. More
Singapore. NUS Press. 2013. Maps, black and white and colour photographic illustrations, ix + 491pp, bibliography, index, paperback. Beneath the modern skyscrapers of Singapore lie the remains of a much older trading port, prosperous and cosmopolitan and a key node in the maritime Silk Road. This book synthesizes 25 years..... More
Singapore. NUS Press. 2013. Maps, black and white and colour photographic illustrations, ix + 491pp, bibliography, index, paperback. Beneath the modern skyscrapers of Singapore lie the remains of a much older trading port, prosperous and cosmopolitan and a key node in the maritime Silk Road. This book synthesizes 25 years..... More
Singapore. NUS Press, 2015. Map, colour and black and white photographic illustrations, 266pp, notes, bibliography, index, dustjacket. Officially established in 1878, the natural history collection originally housed at the Raffles Museum now has more than 560,000 specimens in its care, one of the largest collections of Southeast Asian plants and..... More
Singapore. Singapore University Press. 2010. ix + 108 pages, black and white photographic illustrations, index, paperback. Professor K.G. Tregonning's anecdotal memoir of his years as a member of the Department of History in the University of Singapore, culminating as Raffles Professor, captures the mood and milieu of Singapore as the..... More
Penang. Entrepot. 2017. Colour and black and white illustrations and maps, 258pp, bibliography, index, paperback. New condition. When the achievements of great individuals are exaggerated, an enormous shadow is cast over the work of their subordinates. This has been the case in accounts of the founding of the British settlement..... More
