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- Book Title
- Singapore, Chinese Migration and the Making of the British Emp...
- ISBN
- 9781783274239
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Series
- Worlds of the East India Company
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Singapore, Chinese Migration and the Making of the British Empire, 1819-67
- Item Height
- 234 mm
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer LTD
- Subject
- History
- Item Width
- 156 mm
- Number of Pages
- 202 Pages
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The transformation of Singapore, founded by Stamford Raffles in 1819, from a trading post to a major centre for international trade was a huge commercial and colonial success for Britain. One key factor in all of this was the recruitment of Chinese migrant labour, which by the 1850s made up over half of the population. The transformation, however, was not limited to Singapore. As this book demonstrates, colonial administrators saw that the model of whathad been done in Singapore, especially the use of Chinese migrant labour, could be replicated elsewhere. This book examines the establishment of the Singapore model and its transference - to Assam in India, Sri Lanka (then Ceylon), Mauritius, Australia and the West Indies. It examines the role of the key people who developed the model, including the Hong Kong merchant houses and their financial expertise, discusses central ideas which lay behind the model, notably free trade and the use of industrious Chinese rather than lazy natives, and assesses the varying outcomes of the different colonial experiments. The themes discussed - economic opportunities and globalisation; theneed to find labour without recourse to slavery, indentured labour or convict labour; migration, ethnicity and racism - all continue to have great significance at present, as does the idea that Singapore, still, is a model to be replicated more widely. STAN NEAL is Lecturer in Modern British Imperial History at Ulster University.
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Boydell & Brewer LTD
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9781783274239
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Number of Pages
202 Pages
Publication Name
Singapore, Chinese Migration and the Making of the British Empire, 1819-67
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2019
Type
Textbook
Series
Worlds of the East India Company
Format
Hardcover
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Item Height
234 mm
Item Width
156 mm
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United Kingdom
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