Hong Kong : Singapore : Hong Kong University Press ; National Museum of Singapore, 2009
Table of Contents:
“…Foreword -- Prologue -- Temasek 1300s-1600s -- 1: Remnants from the fire -- 2: Trade winds, tales and treachery -- 3: Melaka's Fall, Singapore return -- Settlement 1819-1824 -- 4: Year 1819 -- 5: Adventures of Stamford raffles -- 6: Raja Melaka: Singapore's other founder -- 7: Doctor, the sultan and the scribe -- Emporium 1820s-1860s -- 8: Free port -- 9: Trading lives -- 10: Malcontents -- 11: New colonial order -- Port-City 1860s-1900s -- 12: Jewel of the East -- 13: City's other face -- 14: Beyond the five-foot way -- Modern Times 1890s-1930s -- 15: Island on the move -- 16: Raising nations -- 17: Woman's world -- 18: Cracks in the empire -- Fortress December 1941 -- February 1942 -- 19: Shock of war -- 20: Malaya campaign -- 21: Siege -- 22: Fall -- Syonan-To 1942-1945 -- 23: Fallen City -- 24: Rising sun -- 25: Endurance, resistance, victory -- Merdeka 1945-1959 -- 26: New beginning -- 27: Other Merdekas -- 28: Staging Merdeka -- 29: Struggle for Singapore -- New Nation 1959-1965 -- 30: Power of action -- 31: Opposition -- 32: From confrontation to separation -- Epilogue -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”