Cover -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION TO FIRST EDITION -- PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1 MALAYSIA AND ITS INDIGENOUS PEOPLE -- 2 INDIAN INFLUENCE AND EARLY EMPIRES -- 3 WEST MEETS EAST IN THE ARCHIPELAGO -- 4 BRITAIN TAKES CONTROL OF THE CROSSROADS -- 5 SINGAPORE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- 6 THE MALAY PENINSULA UNTIL 1874 -- 7 BRITISH INTERVENTION -- 8 THE BRITISH IN BORNEO -- 9 IMPACT OF BRITISH RULE ON MALAYA -- 10 IMPACT OF BRITISH RULE ON THE MALAYS -- 11 SINGAPORE: A GLOBAL TRADER -- 12 WORLD WAR II AND BRITISH MALAYA -- 13 MALAYA AFTER THE WAR -- 14 SINGAPORE: THE ROAD TOSELF-RULE -- 15 MALAYANS TAKE CONTROL -- 16 MALAYSIA 1965-1990 -- 17 INDEPENDENT SINGAPORE -- 18 TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY MALAYSIA -- 19 TWENTY-FIRST CENTURYSINGAPORE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR.