Singapore : a biography / Mark Ravinder Frost, Yu-Mei Balasingamchow.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 446-448) and index.

Temasek, 1300s-1600s. Remnants from the fire ; Trade winds, tales and treachery ; Melaka's fall, Singapore's return -- Settlement, 1819-1824. The year 1819 ; The adventures of Stamford Raffles ; The Raja Melaka: Singapore's other founder ; The doctor, the sultan and the scribe -- Emporium, 1820s-1860s. A free port ; Trading lives ; The malcontents ; A new colonial order -- Port-City, 1860s-1900s. Jewel of the east ; The city's other face ; Beyond the five-foot way -- Modern times, 1890s-1930s. An island on the move ; Raising nations ; A woman's world ; Cracks in the empire -- Fortress, December 1941-February 1942. The shock of war ; The Malaya campaign ; The siege ; The fall -- Syonan-To, 1942-1945. The fallen city ; The rising sun ; Endurance, resistance, victory -- Merdeka, 1945-1959. A new beginning ; Other Merdekas ; Staging Merdeka ; The struggle for Singapore -- New nation, 1959-1965. The power of action ; The opposition ; From confrontation to separation.