Singapore: The Last City State in the World
Check out Squarespace: http://squarespace.com/geographics for 10% off on your first purchase. → Subscribe for new videos two times per week. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw?sub_confirmation=1 This channel is #sponsored by Squarespace. Our sister channels: Biographics - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClnDI2sdehVm1zm_LmUHsjQ TopTenz - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ-hpFPF4nOKoKPEAZM_THw/ Credits: Host - Simon Whistler Author - Morris M. Producer - Jennifer Da Silva Executive Producer - Shell Harris Business inquiries to admin@toptenz.net Source/Further reading: Three part Discovery Channel documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3IOtLIbQ78 Singapore before Raffles: http://www.nlb.gov.sg/biblioasia/2019/01/23/looking-back-at-700-years-of-singapore/ National Geo documentary on Singapore as the city of the future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi6r3hZe5Tg Britannica’s history: https://www.britannica.com/place/Singapore/History Guardian Story of Cities, Singapore: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/apr/21/story-cities-singapore-carefully-planned-lee-kuan-yew Some early history: https://thecommonwealth.org/our-member-countries/singapore/history http://countrystudies.us/singapore/3.htm Lee Kuan Yew biographies: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lee-Kuan-Yew https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/23/world/asia/lee-kuan-yew-founding-father-and-first-premier-of-singapore-dies-at-91.html Stamford Raffles: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stamford-Raffles Singapore in WWII: https://www.thoughtco.com/world-war-ii-battle-of-singapore-2361472 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/singapore-falls-to-japan https://www.roots.sg/learn/stories/world-war-ii/story Japanese occupation: http://www.nlb.gov.sg/biblioasia/2019/05/21/wartime-victuals-surviving-the-japanese-occupation/ Sook Ching: https://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/arts/fresh-look-at-war Singapore ejected from Malaysia: http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/history/events/dc1efe7a-8159-40b2-9244-cdb078755013 Thatcher parising Singapore: https://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/106017
