| Author | : |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9789811199820 |
Exhibition catalog of Raffles in Southeast Asia Exhibition, Singapore, 2019.
Thomas Stamford Raffles
| Author | : Hussein Alatas (Syed) |
| Publisher | : National University of Singapore Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : Colonial administrators |
| ISBN | : 9789813251182 |
More than two hundred years after Thomas Stamford Raffles established a British factory on the island of Singapore, he continues to be a towering figure in the nation. Not one but two statues of Raffles stand prominently in Singapore's civic and heritage district, streets and squares are named after him, and important local businesses use his name. But does Raffles deserve this recognition? Should he continue to be celebrated--or like Cecil Rhodes in South Africa, must Raffles fall? This is not a new question--in fact, it was considered at length as far back as 1971, in Syed Hussein Alatas's slim but devastating volume Thomas Stamford Raffles: Schemer or Reformer?. While the book failed to spark a wide debate on Raffles's legacy in 1970s Singapore, nearly 50 years after its original publication this powerful work feels wholly fresh and relevant. This edition features a new introduction by Syed Farid Alatas assessing contemporary Singapore's take on Raffles, and how far we have, or have not, come in thinking through Singapore's colonial legacy.
Raffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History
| Author | : Alfian Sa'at |
| Publisher | : Ethos Books |
| Total Pages | : 335 |
| Release | : 2022-08-19 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9811490236 |
Why did independent Singapore celebrate two hundred years of its founding as a British colony in 2019? What does Merdeka mean for Singaporeans? And what are the possibilities of doing decolonial history in Singapore? Raffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History presents essays by historians, literary scholars and artists which grapple with these questions. The volume also reproduces some of the source material used in the play Merdeka / 獨立 / சுதந்திரம் (Wild Rice, 2019). Taken together, the book shows how the contradictions of independent nationhood haunt Singaporeans' collective and personal stories about Merdeka. It points to the need for a Merdeka history: an open and fearless culture of historical reckoning that not only untangles us from colonial narratives, but proposes emancipatory possibilities.
Southeast Asia in Ruins
| Author | : Sarah Tiffin |
| Publisher | : NUS Press |
| Total Pages | : 42 |
| Release | : 2016-08-26 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9971698498 |
British artists and commentators in the late 18th and early 19th century encoded the twin aspirations of progress and power in images and descriptions of Southeast Asia’s ruined Hindu and Buddhist candi, pagodas, wats and monuments. To the British eye, images of the remains of past civilisations allowed, indeed stimulated, philosophical meditations on the rise and decline of entire empires. Ruins were witnesses to the fall, humbling and disturbingly prophetic prompts to speculation on imperial failure, and the remains of the Buddhist and Hindu monuments scattered across Southeast Asia proved no exception. This important study of a highly appealing but relatively neglected body of work adds multiple dimensions to the history of art and image production in Britain of the period, showing how the anxieties of empire were encoded in the genre of landscape paintings and prints.
Of Whales and Dinosaurs
| Author | : Kevin Y.L. Tan |
| Publisher | : NUS Press |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 2015-04-18 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9971698552 |
Singapore's collection of Southeast Asian animals–one of the world's largest–dates back to the old Raffles Museum, officially established in 1878.With the opening of the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum in 2015, the original Raffles Museum has "reincarnated" and the loop on its remarkable 127-year history has closed. Beneath the sleek exterior of today's modern museum building lies a saga of titanic struggles and changes. That the collections survived at all–through the multiple challenges of the nineteenth century, the disruption of World War Two, and its potential disintegration in the face of Singapore's modernization–is nothing short of miraculous. This book is not only an institutional history of the museum but also tells the story of frustrations, commitment and courage of the numerous individuals who battled officialdom, innovated endlessly and overcame the odds to protect Singapore's natural history heritage. The book features 108 historical photographs and natural history illustrations printed in full colour throughout.
Raffles of the Eastern Isles
| Author | : Charles Edward Wurtzburg |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 814 |
| Release | : 1954 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
1819 & Before
| Author | : Kwa Chong Guan |
| Publisher | : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute |
| Total Pages | : 146 |
| Release | : 2021-04-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9814951420 |
The essays published here began as a series of lectures commemorating the bicentennial of Thomas Stamford Raffles’s establishment of a British Station in 1819. The essays draw on thirty-five years of archaeological investigations on and around Fort Canning, new readings of the Malay Annals, early Chinese records reporting Singapore, and the Portuguese and Dutch records to probe and challenge our understanding of Singapore’s history before Raffles. Altogether, these essays suggest that Singapore had a pre-1819 past that was deeply connected to the millennium-long maritime history of the Straits of Melaka and its links to the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean.
Raffles and the British Invasion of Java
| Author | : Tim Hannigan |
| Publisher | : Monsoon Books |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2012-11-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 981435886X |
In 1811, an army of 10,000 British redcoats splashed ashore through the muddy shallows off Batavia (now Jakarta) to conquer the Dutch colony of Java. They would remain there for five turbulent years. Drawing on both British and Javanese archival sources, this narrative history-cum-biography explores the bloody battles and furious controversies that marked British rule in Java, and reveals the future founder of Singapore, Thomas Stamford Raffles in a shocking new light.
Race and British Colonialism in Southeast Asia, 1770-1870
| Author | : Gareth Knapman |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2016-10-14 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1315452162 |
This book explores colonial debates on race, liberalism, colonial expansion and equality in South-East Asia, focusing on the writings of John Crawfurd, one of the British Empire’s leading racial theorists and colonial administrators in Asia.
