Singapore gained independence in 1965, a city-state in a world of nation-states.
From the pre-colonial period through to the Modern day, he traces the idea, the politics and the geograp.
Barr proposes a new approach to understand this development.
In this thematic study of the island nation, Michael D.
Blending modernity and tradition, ideologies and ethnicities, a peculiar set of factors make Singapore what it is today.
Yet its long and complex History reaches much farther back.
Singapore gained independence in 1965, a city-state in a world of nation-states