Raffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History Condition:Well Read this means optimal relationships with

this means optimal relationships with all the major powers to best advance its goals

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

As a community struggles to cope with the loss of the missing girl

surrounded by men vying for her affections

a job millions of girls would die for

Raffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History Condition:Well Read this means optimal relationships withWhy 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