TY - BOOK AU - Baker,Jim TI - Crossroads: a popular history of Malaysia and Singapore SN - 9789814516020 AV - DS 596 B34C 2014 PY - 2014/// CY - Singapore : PB - Marshall Cavendish Editions, KW - Malaysia KW - Politics and government KW - Malaya KW - History KW - Singapore N1 - Malaysia and its indigenous people -- Indian influence and early empires -- West meets east in the archipelago -- Britain takes control of the crossroads --Singapore in the nineteenth century -- The Malay peninsula until 1874 -- British intervention -- The British in Borneo -- The impact of British rule on the Malays -- Singapore: a global trader -- World War II and British Malaya -- Malaya after the war -- Singapore: the road to self-rule -- Malayans take control -- Malaysia 1965-1990 -- Independent Singapore -- Twenty-first century Malaysia -- Twenty-first century Singapore ER -