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Seeks to provide a general framework, giving due weight to the origins, early development and each of the various periods of Singapore's history.

Using international trade statistics, this book analyzes three elements in the Indonesian economy: the balance of international payments and trade, the transformation undergone by leading export industries, and the way in which the agricultural sector supplied land, labour and food.

The most important of Tommy Koh's writings on the Law of the Sea are brought together in Building a New Legal Order for the Oceans. As the president of the third UN Conference on the NUS Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), he shares his unique perspective on the concepts and tensions that underlie today's Law of the Sea.

The environmental turn in the humanities and social sciences has meant a new focus on the history of animals. This is one of the first books to look across species at animals in a colonial, urban society. If imperialism is a series of power relationships, it involves not only the subjugation of human communities but also animals.

Traces the story of Sam, a young man who leaves the countryside for the capital after the death of his parents. Once there he is exposed to the hardships and injustice of the city's capitalist society. All Sam wants to do is earn an honest wage for an honest day's work, but he is constantly thwarted by those with money.

Explores Thai women-farang men marriages, and complicates the bimodal views about materiality and intimacy within global intimacies. Focusing on the 'local end' of transnational connections, Lapanun states that women with farang husbands have created a new 'class' determined by their distinctive consumption patterns and life styles.

Using surviving administrative papers, oral materials, intelligence reports and post-war accounts by Japanese officers, this book presents a picture of life in occupied Malaya and Singapore. First published in 1998, this updated edition incorporates information from newly translated Japanese documents and other recent discoveries.

Shows how competition to manage and control Indonesia's vast natural resources is no longer limited to national level interests, nor can it be restricted only to the local level. The study explains changes in the structure of the national political economy as the result of engagement of local actors in disputes with the central government.

What it is like to live in a world where witches are undeniably real, yet too ephemeral and contradictory to be an object of belief? Nils Bubandt argues that cannibal witches for people in the predominantly Christian community of Buli in the Indonesian province of North Maluku are both corporeally real and fundamentally unknowable.

Anthropology is a flourishing discipline in Southeast Asia. Southeast Asian Anthropologies renders visible the development of national traditions and transnational practices of anthropology across the region.

As Malaysia's government responded to the 1997-98 financial crisis, the global financial community criticised its measures as bail outs for politically-influential corporate interests. This book examines the Asian crisis and government policy responses, with emphasis on capital controls as well as corporate, bank and debt restructuring exercises.

Acute glaucoma is a serious blinding condition that every opthalmologist has to grapple with. Here, Arthur Lim shares his experience in treating over 2000 patients with acute primary closed angle glaucoma. The book should be of interest to opthalmologists, doctors, nurses and healthcare workers.

For forty-four months during World War II, the Japanese occupied Singapore, setting out to drastically change life on the island. As part of the occupation, the Japanese produced detailed reports on the economy. The reports were notoriously difficult to read, and so this exceptional translation by Gregg Huff and Shinobu Majima is a true linguistic accomplishment.

The golden age of Malay film in the 1950s and 1960s was the product of a musical and cultural cosmopolitanism in the service of a nation-making process based on ideas of Malay ethnonationalism, initially fluid, increasingly homogenised over time. This is the first in-depth study of the film music of the period. It brings together ethnomusicological and cultural studies perspectives.

Looks at moments in Singapore's and Las Vegas' pasts when the moral and legal status of gambling changed significantly, and examines how modern states and corporations capitalized on it. Lee Kah-Wee argues that the historical project of the control of vice is also about the control of space and capital.

Survey's China's growing role in Southeast Asia along multiple dimensions. The book looks closely and sceptically at the multitude of ways that China has built connections in the region, including through trade, foreign aid, and cultural diplomacy.

During the last two decades, Laos has undergone major transformations due to a massive influx of foreign investment. Improved communications and new forms of mobility have dramatically altered rural life. Changing Lives in Laos brings together contributions from young scholars that look closely at these transitions and the resulting rise of a new social, cultural, and economic order.

American involvement in the Vietnam War not only held back the spread of communism in Southeast Asia, but also catalysed economic and strategic cooperation between the United States and Singapore. The author of this study argues that Singapore might not have achieved its success so rapidly without the support of the US.

Argues that the Singaporean Stare has been able to consolidate its control over civil society, peacefully and to an extent rarely known in history, by overhauling the island's landscape.

The contributors to this volume chart and analyze the organisation of western medical education in Southeast Asia, public health education campaigns in the region, and the ways in which practitioners of what came to be conceived of as ""traditional medicine"" in many Southeast Asian countries organised themselves in response.

Discusses the development of Australia's foreign and defense policies toward Malaya and Singapore in light of the redefinition of Britain's imperial role in Southeast Asia and the formation of new postcolonial states. Andrea Benvenuti sheds light on the impact of Britain on Australia's political and strategic interests in Southeast Asia during the Cold War.

The Islamic kingdom of Aceh was ruled by queens for half of the 17th century. Was female rule an aberration? Unnatural? Indigenous texts and European sources offer different evaluations. Drawing on both sets of sources, this book shows that female rule was legitimised both by Islam and indigenous customary laws, and provides original insights on the Sultanah's leadership.

What kind of character strengths must leaders develop in themselves and others to create and sustain extraordinary organizational growth and performance? This book answers this question by reviewing what is known of the connection between authentic transformational leadership and positive psychology. It includes stories of about 25 famous leaders.

In this in-depth analysis of Britain's involvement in the Vietnam War, Nicholas Tarling draws on many overlooked papers in the British archives in order to describe the making of Britain's policy toward the war and its careful negotiations of its connection to America. The result is a revealing account of the Anglo-American relationship.