02941nam 2200613Ia 450 991078244790332120200520144314.0981-4435-48-1981-261-926-7(CKB)1000000000578022(EBL)433481(OCoLC)609835242(SSID)ssj0000358544(PQKBManifestationID)12102639(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000358544(PQKBWorkID)10377614(PQKB)11525501(MiAaPQ)EBC433481(Au-PeEL)EBL433481(CaPaEBR)ebr10676008(PPN)170263320(EXLCZ)99100000000057802220080623d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCrossroads[electronic resource] a popular history of Malaysia and Singapore /Jim BakerFully updated 2nd ed.Singapore Marshall Cavendish Editions ;Tarrytown, N.Y. Marshall Cavendish Corp.c20081 online resource (457 p.)Description based upon print version of record.981-261-522-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 436-443) and index.Cover; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION TO FIRST EDITION; PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1 MALAYSIA AND ITS INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; 2 INDIAN INFLUENCE AND EARLY EMPIRES; 3 WEST MEETS EAST IN THE ARCHIPELAGO; 4 BRITAIN TAKES CONTROL OF THE CROSSROADS; 5 SINGAPORE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY; 6 THE MALAY PENINSULA UNTIL 1874; 7 BRITISH INTERVENTION; 8 THE BRITISH IN BORNEO; 9 IMPACT OF BRITISH RULE ON MALAYA; 10 IMPACT OF BRITISH RULE ON THE MALAYS; 11 SINGAPORE: A GLOBAL TRADER; 12 WORLD WAR II AND BRITISH MALAYA; 13 MALAYA AFTER THE WAR; 14 SINGAPORE: THE ROAD TOSELF-RULE15 MALAYANS TAKE CONTROL16 MALAYSIA 1965-1990; 17 INDEPENDENT SINGAPORE; 18 TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY MALAYSIA; 19 TWENTY-FIRST CENTURYSINGAPORE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHORIn this fully updated, second edition of Crossroads, Jim Baker adds two new chapters that bring Malaysia and Singapore into the middle of the first decade of the 21st century. The original text (which traces the complex currents of history and politics of Malaysia and Singapore'neighbours with a common past) is also revised to re-evaluate events in the context of an expanded history.Popular history of Malaysia & SingaporeHistoryMalaysiaHistorySingaporeMalaysiaHistorySingaporeHistoryHistoryHistory959.5Baker Jim(James Michael),1948-1502365MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782447903321Crossroads3730062UNINA