Books written by Kevin Blackburn
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Studying Singapore's Past: C.M. Turnbull and the History of Modern Singapore
5 Three successive viceroys of India, Lansdowne, Elgin and Curzon, had been Balliol men and, long after Jowett's time, scores of others, who, like Gimson, lacked family backing or patronage but were not attracted to the church or the ...
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Did Singapore Have to Fall?: Churchill and the Impregnable Fortress
S. I. N. G. A. P. O. R. E. No one should ever have been fooled by the legend of the mighty fortress of Singapore. ... weremember how once PortArthur wasdeemed impregnableandhow,notwithstanding its garrison of45,000 menand 500 guns, ...
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Did Singapore Have to Fall?: Churchill and the Impregnable Fortress
It also puts Churchill's decisions in the context of the struggles in the Middle East and Russia, and allows Churchill and his contemporaries to speak for themselves.
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The Sportsmen of Changi
The Sportsmen of Changi is a moving account of diggers for whom sport was not just a means to boost morale and an escape from a dreadful reality, but a way of feeling human in the face of inhuman suffering.
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War, Sport and the Anzac Tradition
63–86. Blackburn, The Sportsmen of Changi, pp. 183–184. Roland Perry, The Changi Brownlow (Sydney: Hatchette, 2010). Blackburn, The Sportsmen of Changi, pp. 206–207. The Times (London), 29 May 1944. Pollard, The Bradman Years, p.
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Mothers and Education: Inside Out?: Exploring Family-Education Policy And Experience
... Policy And Experience Rosalind Edwards, Mary Hughes, Jane Ribbens, Miriam E David, Wei Xu, Kevin Blackburn ... Smith, D.E. (1987a) The Everyday World as Problematic: A Feminist Sociology, North Eastern University, Boston.
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War Memory and the Making of Modern Malaysia and Singapore
This volume provides a forum for previously marginalized and self-censored voices, using the stories they relate to reflect on the nature of conflict and memory.
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Forgotten Captives in Japanese-Occupied Asia
37 Goffman, Totale instituties. Translation of chapter 1 and 2 of Erving Goffman, The Prison (NewYork: Doubleday,1961). 38 Goffman,Totale instituties,p. 52. 39 Zwitzer, Mannen van 10 jaar en ouder, 160. 40 In January 1943 forinstance, ...
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Education, Industrialization and the End of Empire in Singapore
Education, Industrialization and the End of Empire in Singapore examines how the state’s use of education as an instrument of economic policy had its origins in the colonial economy and intensified during the process of decolonization.
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Education, Industrialization and the End of Empire in Singapore
Education, Industrialization and the End of Empire in Singapore examines how the state’s use of education as an instrument of economic policy had its origins in the colonial economy and intensified during the process of decolonization.
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Did Singapore Have to Fall?: Churchill and the Impregnable Fortress
FALL? On 15 February 1942 Singapore surrendered It was the beginning of the end for the British Empire. Almost before the firing stopped, the controversy started. Could Singapore have been saved if more tanks or aircraft had been ...
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Decolonizing the History Curriculum in Malaysia and Singapore
Decolonizing the History Curriculum in Malaysia and Singapore is a unique study in the history of education because it examines decolonization in terms of how it changed the subject of history in the school curriculum of two colonized ...
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Decolonizing the History Curriculum in Malaysia and Singapore
This unique study in the history of education examines decolonization in terms of how it changed the subject of history in the school curriculum of two colonized countries - Malaysia and Singapore.
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Decolonizing the History Curriculum in Malaysia and Singapore
... Malaysia', American Asian Review 21, no. 4 (2003):229–252. Chelliah, D.D., A History of Educational Policy of the ... Templer and the Road to Malayan Independence: The Man and his Time (Singapore: ISEAS Publishing, 2015). Cowan, C.D. ...
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Forgotten Captives in Japanese-occupied Asia
This book explores differences in how captivity was experienced between 1941 and 1945, and has been remembered since: differences due to geography and logistics, to policies and personalities, and marked by nationality, age, class, gender ...
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Forgotten Captives in Japanese-Occupied Asia
... Forgotten Captives in Japanese-Occupied Asia Edited by Karl Hack and. 1 The Police in Occupation Japan Control ... Asia Tai Yong Tan and Gyanesh Kudaisya 4 The Australia–Japan Political Alignment 1952 to the present Alan Rix 5 Japan and ...