Research Catalog

Title

Paths not taken : political pluralism in post-war Singapore / edited by Michael D. Barr and Carl A. Trocki.

Publication

Singapore : NUS Press, c2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Barr, Michael D.
• Trocki, Carl A.

Description

xiv, 306 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

This title will remind older Singaporeans of ages from their past while providing a younger generation with a novel perspective of their country's past struggles. It reveals a complex situation which gives weight to the middle years of the 20th century as a period that offered real altenatives.

Alternative Title

Political pluralism in post-war Singapore

Subjects

• History
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Geschichte 1945-1970
• 1900-1999
• Social movements > Singapore > History > Congresses
• Cultural pluralism > Singapore > History > Congresses
• Singapore > Politics and government > 20th century > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• History

Note

• "Most of the papers in this book were first presented in 2005 at an international symposium hosted in Singapore by the National University of Singapore's Asia Research Institute (ARI) ..."--P. 2.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-295) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part 1. Opening New Paths -- Imperial Subjects, Straits Citizens: Anglophone Asians and the Struggle for Political Rights in Inter-War Singapore / Chua Ai Lin -- Internationalism and Political Pluralism in Singapore, 1950-1963 / Sunil S. Amrith -- Part 2. Party Politics -- The United Front Strategy of the Malayan Communist Party in Singapore, 1950s-1960s / C.C. Chin -- Chinese Merchants in Politics: The Democratic Party in the 1955 Legislative Assembly Election / Sikko Visscher -- Winning and Losing Malay Support: PAP-Malay Community Relations, 1950s and 1960s / Lily Zubaidah Rahim -- David Marshall and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Singapore / Carl A. Trocki -- Part 3. Activists and Popular Movements Malay Cosmopolitan Activism in Post-War Singapore / Timothy P. Barnard and Jan van der Putten -- Civil Society and the Malay Education Council \ E. Kay Gillis -- All Quiet on Jurong Road: Nanyang University and Radical Vision in Singapore / Yao Souchou -- The Young Pathfinders: Portrayal of Student Political Activism / Huang Jianli -- The Left-Wing Trade Unions in Singapore, 1945-1970 / Michael Fernandez and Loh Kah Seng -- Part 4. Walking Narrow Paths Singapore's Catholic Social Activists: Alleged Marxist Conspirators / Michael D. Barr -- Internalised Boundaries: AWARE's Place in Singapore's Emerging Civil Society / Lenore Lyons -- History Spiked: Hegemony and the Denial of Media Diversity / Cherian George.

ISBN

• 9789971693787 (pbk.)
• 997169378X (pbk.)

OCLC

• 154714418
• SCSB-10575896

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library