One Hundred Years of Singapore (2 vols)

This is the two-volume text, ‘One Hundred Years of Singapore’, published in 1919. It was written to promote assert British imperial achievement, one hundred years after Raffles had set up a trading settlement in Singapore. The book covers history, government, law, military, education, science, commerce, sports, and others. It largely focuses on the European community, and personalities such as Sir Stamford Raffles and William Farquhar. It is dedicated to ‘the Merchants and the Factors and the long-forgotten Writers/Who sowed the seed of Empire in a rudely furrowed sod’.