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Technology and Entrepot Colonialism in Singapore, 1819-1940
Author(s): Goh Chor Boon (Author)
- Publisher: ISEAS Publishing
- Publication Date: 30 Aug. 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 300 pages
- ISBN-10: 9814414085
- ISBN-13: 9789814414081
Book Description
How did imported technology contribute to the development of the colony of Singapore? Who were the main agents of change in this process? Was there extensive transfer and diffusion of Western science and technology into the port-city? How did the people respond to change? Examining areas such as shipping, port development, telegraphs and wireless, urban water supply and sewage disposal, economic botany, electrification, food production and retailing, science and technical education, and health, this book documents the role of technology and, to a smaller extent, science, in the transformation of colonial Singapore before 1940. In doing so, this book hopes to provide a new dimension to the historiography of Singapore from a “science, technology and society” perspective.
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About the Author
Associate Professor Goh Chor Boon is General Manager of NIE International Pte Ltd, the business consultancy arm of the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
