couverture de Singapore: A Biography
240 x 170 mm — 460 pages — 35
ISBN : 978-9-81438-516-9
  • Covers Singapore's history from the 1300s to 1965
  • Written in an accessible and absorbing narrative style
  • More than 300 images complement the text

Brimming with verve and dramatic incident, Singapore: A Biography offers fresh insights into the life story of this island city-state through the personal experiences of the workers, adventurers, rulers and revolutionaries who have shaped its history over the last seven centuries. The authors, drawing on research undertaken in collaboration with the National Museum of Singapore, have woven together ancient chronicles, eyewitness accounts, oral histories and even modern radio and television broadcasts to create a vivid and compelling narrative that brings the past back to life. Grounded in scholarship yet fired by the imagination, this book reveals the Singapore story to have been as rich, diverse and multilayered as the city-state is prosperous, ordered and successful today.

Mark Ravinder Frost

Mark Ravinder Frost studied history at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and has published articles on Asian history in journals such as Modern Asian Studies and the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. As well as Singapore: A Biography, he is the author of two forthcoming books: A Port-City Enlightenment: Print, Politics and Religion Across Britain’s Asian Empire, 1854–1920 and Decolonization in Asia: An Interconnected History. 

Yu-Mei Balasingamchow

Yu-Mei Balasingamchow was born and raised in Singapore, before she went to the United States to study English and History at Northwestern University. She is currently based in Singapore, where she writes about history, travel and culture in Asia.

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