Raffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History Condition:Well Read Clary Goodwin

Clary Goodwin

propose a development strategy that encourages poor countries to leap directly into the global economy by building industrial parks and export-processing zones linked to global markets

Complex and rich in mystical religious insights

a job millions of girls would die for

arcane treatises on cabbalism and magic

Raffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History Condition:Well Read Clary GoodwinWhy did independent Singapore celebrate two hundred years of its founding as a British colony in 2019? Why did it do so with a history dating from 1299? And what are the possibilities of doing decolonial history in Singapore? Raffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History presents essays by historians, literary scholars and artists which grapple with these questions. The volume also reproduces some of the source material used in the play Merdeka (Wild