Churchill and the Lion City : Shaping Modern Singapore /
British imperialism helped shape the modern world order. This same imperialism created modern Singapore, controlling its colonial development and influencing its post-colonial orientation. Winston Churchill was British imperialism's most significant twentieth-century statesman. He never visited...
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| Language: | English |
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Singapore :
NUS Press,
2011
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| Summary: | British imperialism helped shape the modern world order. This same imperialism created modern Singapore, controlling its colonial development and influencing its post-colonial orientation. Winston Churchill was British imperialism's most significant twentieth-century statesman. He never visited Singapore, but his story and that of the city-state are deeply intertwined. Singapore became a symbol of British imperial power in Asia to Churchill, while Singaporeans came to see him as symbolizing that power. The fall of Singapore to Japanese conquest in 1942 was a low point in Churchill's war leadership, one he forever labeled as 'the worst disaster in British military history.' It was also a tragedy for Singapore, ushering in three years of harsh military occupation. But the interplay between these three historical forces, Churchill, Empire, and Singapore, extended well beyond this dramatic conjuncture. The Last Lion and the Lion City provides a critical examination of that longer interplay through an analysis of Churchill's understanding of empire, his perceptions of Singapore and its imperial role, his direction of affairs regarding Singapore and the Empire, and his influence on the subsequent relationship between Britain and Singapore. |
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| Item Description: | "This book has come about from a ... collaboration between the National University of Singapore and Churchill College in the University of Cambridge. Its birth was a well attended one-day conference held at NUS Cultural Centre on Friday 9 April 2010"--Foreword. |
| Physical Description: | xii, 194 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-184) and index |
| ISBN: | 9789971695521 9789971695651 |