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The Founding Era

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A-01The Founding Era

SG-A-01 | The Founding of the People's Action Party (November 1954)

Full Title: The Founding of the People's Action Party (November 1954)

A-02The Founding Era

SG-A-02 | The Road to Self-Government: Electoral Politics 1955--1959

Full Title: The Road to Self-Government: Electoral Politics 1955--1959

A-03The Founding Era

SG-A-03 | The First PAP Government: The 1959 Cabinet and Its Early Programme

Full Title: The First PAP Government: The 1959 Cabinet and Its Early Programme

A-04The Founding Era

SG-A-04: Lim Chin Siong and the Left: The PAP's Internal War

Full Title: Lim Chin Siong and the Left: The PAP's Internal War

A-05The Founding Era

SG-A-05: The Merger with Malaysia (1963) and its Failure

Full Title: The Merger with Malaysia (1963) and its Failure

A-06The Founding Era

SG-A-06: The Barisan Sosialis: Singapore's Unrealised Alternative

Full Title: The Barisan Sosialis: Singapore's Unrealised Alternative

A-07The Founding Era

SG-A-07: Race and the First Crisis — The 1964 Communal Riots

Full Title: Race and the First Crisis: The 1964 Communal Riots

A-08The Founding Era

SG-A-08 | The Legislative Architecture: Law-Making in the First Decade

Full Title: The Legislative Architecture: Law-Making in the First Decade

A-09The Founding Era

SG-A-09 | The British Withdrawal East of Suez: Singapore's Defence Dilemma

Full Title: The British Withdrawal East of Suez: Singapore's Defence Dilemma

A-10The Founding Era

SG-A-10: International Recognition — Singapore at the United Nations and in ASEAN (1965–1967)

Full Title: International Recognition: Singapore at the United Nations and in ASEAN (1965–1967)

A-11The Founding Era

SG-A-11 | Goh Keng Swee and the Economic Architecture: EDB, JTC, and Jurong

| Title | Goh Keng Swee and the Economic Architecture: EDB, JTC, and Jurong |

A-12The Founding Era

SG-A-12 | Lim Kim San and the Housing Revolution: HDB 1960--1975

| Title | Lim Kim San and the Housing Revolution: HDB 1960--1975 |

A-13The Founding Era

SG-A-13 | The CPF: From Retirement Fund to National Swiss Army Knife

| Title | The CPF: From Retirement Fund to National Swiss Army Knife |

A-14The Founding Era

SG-A-14 | Building the SAF: National Service and the Citizen Army (1967--1975)

| Title | Building the SAF: National Service and the Citizen Army (1967--1975) |

A-15The Founding Era

SG-A-15 | The Labour Movement Transformation: NTUC and Tripartism

| Title | The Labour Movement Transformation: NTUC and Tripartism |

A-16The Founding Era

SG-A-16: Education as Nation-Building: The Bilingual Policy 1959–1979

Full Title: Education as Nation-Building: The Bilingual Policy 1959–1979

A-17The Founding Era

SG-A-17: The Second Industrial Revolution: High-Wage Strategy 1979--1985

Full Title: The Second Industrial Revolution: High-Wage Strategy 1979--1985

A-18The Founding Era

SG-A-18 | Singapore at 15: What Had Been Built by 1980?

| Title | Singapore at 15: What Had Been Built by 1980? |

A-19The Founding Era

SG-A-19 | The British Withdrawal East of Suez and Singapore's Sovereignty Moment (1967--1971)

Full Title: The British Withdrawal East of Suez and Singapore's Sovereignty Moment (1967--1971)

A-20The Founding Era

SG-A-20: Operation Cold Store and the Internal Security Act Doctrine (1963–1990s)

Full Title: Operation Cold Store and the Internal Security Act Doctrine — Detention Without Trial and the Architecture of Political Control (1963–1990…

A-21The Founding Era

SG-A-21 | The 1959 General Election and PAP's First Government

Full Title: The 1959 General Election and PAP's First Government: From Alliance to Ascendancy, 1958–1961

A-22The Founding Era

SG-A-22: The Fall of Singapore and the Japanese Occupation — Foundations of Postcolonial Singapore (1941–1945)

Full Title: The Fall of Singapore and the Japanese Occupation — Foundations of Postcolonial Singapore (1941–1945)

A-23The Founding Era

SG-A-23: The Maria Hertogh Riots and the Limits of Colonial Law (1950)

Full Title: The Maria Hertogh Riots and the Limits of Colonial Law: Custody, Community, and Communal Violence in Singapore, 1949–1953

A-24The Founding Era

SG-A-24: The Malayan Emergency and Singapore — Colonial Counter-Insurgency, Trade Unionism, and the ISA Inheritance (1948–1960)

Full Title: The Malayan Emergency and Singapore — Colonial Counter-Insurgency, Trade Unionism, and the ISA Inheritance (1948–1960)

A-25The Founding Era

SG-A-25: From Third World to First — The Founding Generation's Historiography of Singapore's Transition (1965–1990)

| Full Title | From Third World to First — The Founding Generation's Historiography of Singapore's Transition (1965–1990) |

A-26The Founding Era

SG-A-26: Albert Winsemius and the Foreign Advisor Tradition — Singapore's Outside-Expertise Doctrine (1960–1984)

| Full Title | Albert Winsemius and the Foreign Advisor Tradition — Singapore's Outside-Expertise Doctrine (1960–1984) |

A-27The Founding Era

SG-A-27: The 21 July 1964 Prophet Muhammad's Birthday Procession Riots — Origins, Death Toll, and Doctrinal Inheritance

Full Title: The 21 July 1964 Prophet Muhammad's Birthday Procession Riots — Origins, Death Toll, and Doctrinal Inheritance

A-28The Founding Era

SG-A-28: The May 1969 Race Riots — Cross-Border Aftermath of Kuala Lumpur and the Singapore Posture

Full Title: The May 1969 Race Riots — Cross-Border Aftermath of Kuala Lumpur and the Singapore Posture

A-29The Founding Era

SG-A-29: The 1985 Recession and the Economic Committee — Singapore's First Post-Independence Macroeconomic Crisis (1984–1987)

Full Title: The 1985 Recession and the Economic Committee — Singapore's First Post-Independence Macroeconomic Crisis and Its Doctrinal Legacy

A-30The Founding Era

SG-A-30 | The Rendel Constitution and the Marshall Government — Singapore's First Elected Government (1953–1956)

Full Title: The Rendel Constitution and the Marshall Government — Singapore's First Elected Government (1953–1956)

A-31The Founding Era

SG-A-31: The Founding Cabinet's Second-Generation Handover — From LKY's Inner Circle to Goh Chok Tong's Cohort (1979–1990)

| Full Title | The Founding Cabinet's Second-Generation Handover — From LKY's Inner Circle to Goh Chok Tong's Cohort (1979–1990) |

A-32The Founding Era

SG-A-32: The ASEAN Founding (1967) and Singapore's Sponsoring Role — The Bangkok Declaration and Beyond (1965–1971)

Full Title: The ASEAN Founding (1967) and Singapore's Sponsoring Role — The Bangkok Declaration and Beyond

A-33The Founding Era

SG-A-33: The Bilingual Policy Foundations — Goh Keng Swee's 1979 Education Reform and the Mother Tongue Architecture (1965–1990)

Full Title: The Bilingual Policy Foundations — Goh Keng Swee's 1979 Education Reform and the Mother Tongue Architecture (1965–1990)

A-34The Founding Era

SG-A-34: The 1968 General Election — Singapore's First Post-Independence Election and the PAP Sweep

Full Title: The 1968 General Election — Singapore's First Post-Independence Election and the PAP Sweep: Legitimacy, Boycott, and the Institutionalisat…

A-35The Founding Era

SG-A-35: The 1972, 1976, and 1980 General Elections — Singapore's One-Party Dominant Decade

Full Title: The 1972, 1976, and 1980 General Elections — Singapore's One-Party Dominant Decade: Consolidation, Managed Competition, and the Threshold …

A-36The Founding Era

SG-A-36 | National Service Founding 1967 — The Decision, the Resistance, and the Doctrinal Inheritance

Full Title: National Service Founding 1967 — The Decision, the Resistance, and the Doctrinal Inheritance

A-37The Founding Era

SG-A-37: The 1991 and 1997 General Elections — Goh Chok Tong's Consultative Mandate (1991–1997)

Full Title: The 1991 and 1997 General Elections — Goh Chok Tong's Consultative Mandate: Opposition Inroads, the Upgrading Doctrine, and the Recovery o…

A-38The Founding Era

SG-A-38: The 2001 and 2006 General Elections — GCT's Final Mandate and LHL's First (2001–2006)

Full Title: The 2001 and 2006 General Elections — Goh Chok Tong's Final Mandate and Lee Hsien Loong's First: Post-9/11 Rally, Succession, and the Emer…

A-39The Founding Era

SG-A-39 | David Marshall's Political Arc — From Chief Minister to Ambassador (1955–1995)

Full Title: David Marshall's Political Arc — From Chief Minister to Ambassador (1955–1995)

A-40The Founding Era

SG-A-40: The 1960s Housing Build-Out — Singapore's First Decade of HDB Mass Construction (1960–1970)

Full Title: The 1960s Housing Build-Out — Singapore's First Decade of HDB Mass Construction (1960–1970)

A-41The Founding Era

SG-A-41: 1965 Independence Architecture — Separation Day, Constitutional Reorganisation, Sovereignty Building (Aug–Dec 1965)

Full Title: 1965 Independence Architecture — Separation Day, Constitutional Reorganisation, Sovereignty Building (August–December 1965)

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