Singapore: a biography

Foreword

Prologue

Temasek 1300s-1600s

1: Remnants from the fire

2: Trade winds, tales and treachery

3: Melaka's Fall, Singapore return

Settlement 1819-1824

4: Year 1819

5: Adventures of Stamford raffles

6: Raja Melaka: Singapore's other founder

7: Doctor, the sultan and the scribe

Emporium 1820s-1860s

8: Free port

9: Trading lives

10: Malcontents

11: New colonial order

Port-City 1860s-1900s

12: Jewel of the East

13: City's other face

14: Beyond the five-foot way

Modern Times 1890s-1930s

15: Island on the move

16: Raising nations

17: Woman's world

18: Cracks in the empire

Fortress December 1941 - February 1942

19: Shock of war

20: Malaya campaign

21: Siege

22: Fall

Syonan-To 1942-1945

23: Fallen City

24: Rising sun

25: Endurance, resistance, victory

Merdeka 1945-1959

26: New beginning

27: Other Merdekas

28: Staging Merdeka

29: Struggle for Singapore

New Nation 1959-1965

30: Power of action

31: Opposition

32: From confrontation to separation

Epilogue

Endnotes

Bibliography

Index.