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  • Merdeka and Much More: Reminiscences of a Raffles Professor, 1953-67
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  • Ken Tregonning
  • 2010
  • Published by: NUS Press Pte Ltd
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Professor K.G. Tregonning's anecdotal memoir of his years as a member of the Department of History in the University of Singapore, culminating as Raffles Professor, captures the mood and milieu of Singapore as the country emerged from colonial rule to become a self-governing independent nation. Arriving at the height of the Cold War, Tregonning was acutely conscious of the ongoing Malayan Emergency and of the political shifts taking place across Southeast Asia. He records meetings with a number of the region's leaders, and encounters with students and colleagues who would later feature in Singapore's politics, or become leading figures in the academic world. The result is an engaging and very personal account of a university and a professional, political and social environment that is quite different from that found in Singapore today.

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  1. title page
  2. p. i
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  1. copyright
  2. p. iv
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  1. Contents
  2. p. vii
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  1. List of Illustrations
  2. p. ix
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  1. 1 Home Port
  2. pp. 1-5
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  1. 2 The Campus
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  1. 3 Merdeka
  2. pp. 18-30
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  1. 4 Kuala B’rang
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  1. 5 How the Cold Storage Shaped World History
  2. pp. 37-42
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  1. 6 Borneo
  2. pp. 51-56
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  1. 7 The Padang
  2. pp. 57-62
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  1. 8 Tea Cups and Tokyo
  2. pp. 63-66
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  1. 9 Meeting the Mighty
  2. pp. 67-88
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  1. 10 Lee Kuan Yew
  2. pp. 89-97
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  1. 11 Home
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  1. Index
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