Merchants Bankers Governors British Enterprise In Singapore And Malaya 1786 1920

Author : P. J. Drake
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9789813222410
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Merchants, Bankers, Governors written by P. J. Drake and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The earliest times, 1786-1850 -- Taking root, 1850s-1870s -- Straits politics and trade infrastructure, 1867-1873 -- Opening the peninsula, 1874-1896 -- Currency and banking -- Rapid economic growth and change, 1896-1914 -- Merchant firm 1: Guthrie & Co. -- Merchant firm 2: Boustead & Co. -- World War I and its aftermath

Author : Drake Peter Joseph
Publisher : #N/A
ISBN 13 : 9813222433
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Merchants, Bankers, Governors: British Enterprise In Singapore And Malaya, 1786-1920 written by Drake Peter Joseph and published by #N/A. This book was released on 2017-07-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of British enterprise in Singapore and Malaya from 1786 to 1920, when British vision, zeal and drive developed Penang, then Singapore and, finally, the peninsular Malay States. In the initial years, commerce and finance were paramount. The seeds of these commercial activities had been planted initially in the days of the East India Company but later, and more importantly, by individual merchant firms, supported by credit from London. These merchants were the driving force of British investment and development on the Malay Peninsula. While the contributions of the Malays, Indians and, especially, the Chinese to economic development should not be under-rated, in the period under review, their activities were steered and monitored by the British. This book presents an original and coherent account of British Enterprise in Singapore and Malaya in an important historical period and includes substantial new material from primary records of merchant firms and banks which will be of great interest to students, professionals as well as the general public.

Author : Soon-Tzu Speechley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350360368
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Malayan Classicism written by Soon-Tzu Speechley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a broad range of case studies spanning from imperial monuments to rural residences, Malayan Classicism puts forward a fundamentally new understanding of classical architecture in the Asian colonial context. Across Malaysia and Singapore, thousands of historic buildings are richly ornamented with motifs drawn from Ancient Greece and Rome - as plump volutes, lush acanthus leaves, and neat rows of dentils decorate mosques, palaces, government buildings and innumerable terraced shophouses. These classical details jostle with ideas drawn from other architectural traditions from across Asia in a style that is unique to the region. Presenting the first comprehensive account of what was, prior to World War II, Malaya's most widespread architectural style, Malayan Classicism explores how the classical architecture of the British Empire was transmitted, translated, and transformed in the hands of local builders and architects. Addressing a critical gap in the scholarship, this book charts the metamorphosis of an imperial language of power into a local vernacular style, and provides a new way of reading classical architecture in a post-colonial context that will be applicable throughout the Global South.

Author : Kwa Chong Guan
Publisher : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
ISBN 13 : 9815104470
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shipwrecks and the Maritime History of Singapore written by Kwa Chong Guan and published by ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. This book was released on 2023-09-18 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 16 June 2021 the National Heritage Board announced the successful conclusion of the archaeological excavation of two shipwrecks at the eastern approach to Singapore. This maritime archaeology excavation, the largest in Singapore’s waters, was conducted by the Archaeology Unit of the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute over a six-year period. This book documents these two shipwrecks, complemented by essays on Singapore’s maritime history, from Temasek in the fourteenth century through the emergence of country trade in the late eighteenth century. These two shipwrecks challenge us to rethink Singapore’s history as globally connected, determined by what was happening on the seas in and around the island.

Author : Hadijah Bte Rahmat
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9811205817
Total Pages : 1276 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abdullah Bin Abdul Kadir Munshi (In 2 Volumes) written by Hadijah Bte Rahmat and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 1276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir Munshi, is the most comprehensive, multi-disciplinary studies on Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir, widely known as Munshi Abdullah (1796-1854). He was a prominent literary figure and thinker in the Malay world in the 19th century and was also an early 'pioneer' of Singapore.The author, Professor Hadijah Rahmat, has spent more than 25 years studying Munshi Abdullah since her PhD studies in the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, in 1992 to date. This book is covered in two volumes and is based on her research conducted using unexplored primary sources at several missionaries' archives at SOAS, London, Houghton Library, University Harvard, Library of Congress, Leiden University, KITVL, Holland, and the Perpustakaan Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta.The book consists of numerous academic papers presented at the regional and international seminars, and also published in international journals and as chapters of books. Besides academic papers, the excerpt of play titled Munsyi, sketches, poetry, and song, and interviews by the national media are also included.This book provides new insight into Abdullah's life, backgrounds, writings, his influences and legacies and the reactions and thought provoking views of the western and eastern scholars on Abdullah. The book is indeed the key reference for studies on Munshi Abdullah, Malay literature, and the history of Singapore, Malaysia, and colonialism in Southeast Asia.

Author : Chong Guan Kwa
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9813277653
Total Pages : 1002 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A General History Of The Chinese In Singapore written by Chong Guan Kwa and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2019-06-21 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A General History of the Chinese in Singapore documents over 700 years of Chinese history in Singapore, from Chinese presence in the region through the millennium-old Hokkien trading world to the waves of mass migration that came after the establishment of a British settlement, and through to the development and birth of the nation. Across 38 chapters and parts, readers are taken through the complex historical mosaic of Overseas Chinese social, economic and political activity in Singapore and the region, such as the development of maritime junk trade, plantation industries, and coolie labour, the role of different bangs, clan associations and secret societies as well as Chinese leaders, the diverging political allegiances including Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary activities and the National Salvation Movement leading up to the Second World War, the transplanting of traditional Chinese religions, the changing identity of the Overseas Chinese, and the developments in language and education policies, publishing, arts, and more.With 'Pride in our Past, Legacy for our Future' as its key objective, this volume aims to preserve the Singapore Chinese story, history and heritage for future generations, as well as keep our cultures and traditions alive. Therefore, the book aims to serve as a comprehensive guide for Singaporeans, new immigrants and foreigners to have an epitome of the Singapore society. This publication is supported by the National Heritage Board's Heritage Project Grant.Related Link(s)

Author : Lynn Hollen Lees
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107038405
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects written by Lynn Hollen Lees and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an innovative study of how British Colonial rule and society in Malayan towns and plantations transformed immigrants into British subjects.

Author : John Dodd
Publisher : Monsoon Books
ISBN 13 : 1912049112
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Company of Planters written by John Dodd and published by Monsoon Books. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a collection of letters written to his best friend and to his father in England, and from his own personal diary entries, John Dodd’s memoir offers a fascinating and amusing glimpse of life as a colonial rubber planter. With true stories and confessions that would make even Somerset Maugham blush, we discover what life was really like for young colonial planters in late-1950s Malaya. Increasing daily rubber output may have been their goal but for the young planters the bigger picture of chasing girls and finding a ‘keep’ was of much greater importance. But life was more than just a series of stengahs in the clubhouse, dalliances in the Chinese brothels of Penang and charming ‘pillow dictionaries’ – there were strikes, riots, snakes, plantation fires and deadly ambushes by Communist terrorists to contend with. Set against the backdrop of the Emergency period, the rise of nationalism and Malaya’s subsequent Independence, A Company of Planters is a very personal, moving and humorous account of one man’s experiences on the frequently isolated rubber plantations of colonial Malaya.

Author : Sir Frank Athelstane Swettenham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Malaya written by Sir Frank Athelstane Swettenham and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : A. Kirk-Greene
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780333732977
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britain's Imperial Administrators, 1858-1966 written by A. Kirk-Greene and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-02-24 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain's famous overseas civil services - the Colonial Administrative Service, the Indian Civil Service and the Sudan Political Service - no longer exist as a major and sought-after career for Britain's graduates. In this detailed study the history of each service is presented within the framework of the need to administer an expanding empire. Close attention is paid to the methods of recruitment and training and to the socio-educational background of the overseas administrators as well as to the nature of their work. The prestigious incumbents of Government House are revealingly examined. The impact of decolonisation on overseas officials and the kinds of 'second careers' which they took up are documented. This authoritative narrative history is enlivened by recourse to Service lore and anecdotes.