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1 online resource (318 pages) |
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| Series |
ICAS publication series. Edited volumes ; 6 |
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ICAS publication series. Edited volumes ; 6.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-318). |
| Contents |
Introduction / Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied and Derek Heng -- Reframing the historical narrative -- From political rhetoric to national history : bi-culturalism and hybridisation in the construction of Singapore's historical narrative / Derek Heng Thiam Soon -- Gateway and panopticon : Singapore and surviving regime change in the nineteenth-century Malay world / Koh Keng We -- Beyond the rhetoric of communalism : violence and the process of reconciliation in 1950s Singapore / Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied -- The politics of fires in post-1950s Singapore and the making of the modernist nation-state / Loh Kah Seng -- Gender and discipline in 'The Singapore story' : the female Chinese factory workers in perspective, c. 1980-c. 1990 / Ernest Koh -- Locating identities across borders -- Textualising the Baba identity : insights into the making of a bibliography / Bonny Tan -- Negotiating identities, affiliations and interests : the many lives of Han Wai Toon, an overseas Chinese / Sharon Wong Wai Yee -- Singaporean first: challenging the concept of transnational Malay masculinity / Lenore Lyons and Michele Ford -- Trans-national biographies and trans-national habiti : the case of Chinese-Singaporeans in Hong Kong / Caroline Plüss -- Singapore as trans-regional conduit -- Indian media and the lure of 'uniquely Singapore' / Faizal bin Yahya and Arunajeet Kaur -- Localising the global and globalising the local : the global households of Filipina trans-migrant workers and their Singapore employers / Janet M. Arnado -- Raffles Hotel Singapore : advertising, consumption and romance / Chris Hudson -- The role of recruitment agencies for Japanese working women in Singapore / Yoshimichi Yui. |
| Summary |
This book explores fresh perspectives and offers new themes in the study of Singapore through the use of theoretical tools derived from various disciplines within the humanities and social sciences. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Singapore -- History -- 19th century.
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Singapore -- History -- 20th century.
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Singapore -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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Singapore -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Ethnicity -- Singapore.
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East Asia.
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History & Archaeology.
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Regions & Countries -- Asia & the Middle East.
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Social Conditions.
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Social Sciences.
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Sociology & Social History.
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Singapour -- Histoire -- 19e siècle.
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Singapour -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
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Ethnicité -- Singapour.
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Humanities.
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History.
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Society and social sciences.
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Sociology and anthropology.
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Economics, finance, business and management.
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HISTORY.
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HISTORY -- General.
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Ethnicity
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Social conditions
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Singapore https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJpV8D6qM4JGxDqvHvtYfq
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1999
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| Indexed Term |
History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines |
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Sociology |
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Economics |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Added Author |
Heng, Derek Thiam Soon, editor.
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Aljunied, Syed Muhd. Khairudin, 1976- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Reframing Singapore. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2009 9789089640949 (OCoLC)318873972 |
| ISBN |
9789048508211 (electronic bk.) |
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9048508215 (electronic bk.) |
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9781282401792 (online) |
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1282401793 |
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9789089640949 (pbk.) |
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9089640940 (pbk.) |
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9786612401794 |
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6612401796 |
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