£70.39

Boydell Press Singapore, Chinese Migration and the Making of the British Empire, 1819-67: 17 (Worlds of the East India Company)

Price data last checked 150 day(s) ago - refreshing...

View at Amazon

We'll watch every seller, every day. One email when your price arrives.

This is the usual price. Wait for it to drop, or tell us your number.

£70 today · usual range £0–£0 · best ever £60

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey
↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next
↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range
↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 581 days • 581 data points (No recent data available)

Historical
Generating forecast...
£77.99 £57.67 £62.11 £66.54 £70.97 £75.40 £79.84 10 June 2024 02 November 2024 27 March 2025 19 August 2025 11 January 2026

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 581 days • 5 price levels

Days at Price
Current Price
80 days 302 days 11 days · current 178 days 10 days 0 76 151 227 302 £60 £67 £70 £71 £78 Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £67 (302 days, 52.0%)

Price range: £60 - £78

Price levels: 5 different prices over 581 days

Description

Discusses how Britain replicated the "Singapore model" - the use of imported "industrious" Chinese labour - to other parts of its empire, with varying degrees of success. The transformation of Singapore, founded by Stamford Raffles in 1819, from a trading post to a major centre for international trade was a huge commercial and colonial success for Britain. One key factor in all of this was the recruitment of Chinese migrant labour, which by the 1850s made up over half of the population. The transformation, however, was not limited to Singapore. As this book demonstrates, colonial administrators saw that the "model" of whathad been done in Singapore, especially the use of Chinese migrant labour, could be replicated elsewhere. This book examines the establishment of the "Singapore model" and its transference - to Assam in India, Sri Lanka (then Ceylon), Mauritius, Australia and the West Indies. It examines the role of the key people who developed the model, including the Hong Kong merchant houses and their financial expertise, discusses central ideas which lay behind the model, notably free trade and the use of "industrious" Chinese rather than "lazy" natives, and assesses the varying outcomes of the different colonial experiments. The themes discussed - economic opportunities and globalisation; theneed to find labour without recourse to slavery, indentured labour or convict labour; migration, ethnicity and racism - all continue to have great significance at present, as does the idea that Singapore, still, is a model to be replicated more widely. STAN NEAL is Lecturer in Modern British Imperial History at Ulster University.

Product Specifications

Format
hardcover
Domain
Amazon UK
Release Date
17 May 2019
Listed Since
06 December 2018

Barcode

No barcode data available

Similar Products You Might Like

Volume III: The Nineteenth Century (The Oxford History of the British Empire)
96% match

Volume III: The Nineteenth Century (The Oxford History of the British Empire)

Oxford University Press

£87.49 13 Dec 2025
British Traders in the East Indies, 1770-1820: 'At Home in the Eastern Seas': 19 (Worlds of the East India Company)
96% match

British Traders in the East Indies, 1770-1820: 'At Home in the Eastern Seas': 19 (Worlds of the East India Company)

Boydell Press

£80.86 01 Feb 2026
The Royal Navy and the British Atlantic World, c. 1750–1820
96% match

The Royal Navy and the British Atlantic World, c. 1750–1820

MACMILLAN

£84.76 21 Feb 2026
Kala Pani Crossings: Revisiting 19th Century Migrations from India’s Perspective
96% match

Kala Pani Crossings: Revisiting 19th Century Migrations from India’s Perspective

£127.61 12 Jan 2026
Liberalism and the British Empire in Southeast Asia (Empires in Perspective)
96% match

Liberalism and the British Empire in Southeast Asia (Empires in Perspective)

Routledge

£110.40 05 Feb 2026
The Twilight of the East India Company: The Evolution of Anglo-Asian Commerce and Politics, 1790-1860
96% match

The Twilight of the East India Company: The Evolution of Anglo-Asian Commerce and Politics, 1790-1860

Boydell Press

£66.08 28 Feb 2026
Manliness and Masculinities in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Essays on Gender, Family and Empire (Women And Men In History)
96% match

Manliness and Masculinities in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Essays on Gender, Family and Empire (Women And Men In History)

Routledge

£40.99 15 Dec 2025
3: The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume III: The Nineteenth Century
95% match

3: The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume III: The Nineteenth Century

Oxford University Press

£40.93 12 Jan 2026
Trade and Empire in Early Nineteenth-Century Southeast Asia: Gillian Maclaine and his Business Network (Worlds of the East India Company)
95% match

Trade and Empire in Early Nineteenth-Century Southeast Asia: Gillian Maclaine and his Business Network (Worlds of the East India Company)

Boydell Press

£69.69 11 Mar 2026
Portuguese, Dutch and Chinese in Maritime Asia, c.1585 - 1800: Merchants, Commodities and Commerce (Variorum Collected Studies)
95% match

Portuguese, Dutch and Chinese in Maritime Asia, c.1585 - 1800: Merchants, Commodities and Commerce (Variorum Collected Studies)

Routledge

£113.74 27 Feb 2026
Geographies of Seapower: Forging Empire in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
95% match

Geographies of Seapower: Forging Empire in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands

£55.00 04 Feb 2026
Subjectivity and the Reproduction of Imperial Power: Empire’s Individuals (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature)
95% match

Subjectivity and the Reproduction of Imperial Power: Empire’s Individuals (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature)

Routledge

£136.16 08 Jan 2026
Memoir of the Life and Public Services of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles: Particularly in the Government of Java, 1811–1816 and of Bencoolen and its ... - East and South-East Asian History)
95% match

Memoir of the Life and Public Services of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles: Particularly in the Government of Java, 1811–1816 and of Bencoolen and its ... - East and South-East Asian History)

Cambridge University Press

£70.99 12 Apr 2026
Trade, Regulation and Empire State-building in Britain: The Board of Trade’s Role in Building the British Regulatory State (Palgrave Studies in Economic History)
95% match

Trade, Regulation and Empire State-building in Britain: The Board of Trade’s Role in Building the British Regulatory State (Palgrave Studies in Economic History)

MACMILLAN

£84.20 13 Feb 2026
Routledge Singapore - Two Hundred Years of the Lion City Book
95% match

Routledge Singapore - Two Hundred Years of the Lion City Book

Routledge

£136.27 17 Apr 2026
Research in Economic History: 25
95% match

Research in Economic History: 25

Jai Press Inc.

£91.07 09 Mar 2026
Empire, Architecture, and the City: French-Ottoman Encounters, 1830-1914
95% match

Empire, Architecture, and the City: French-Ottoman Encounters, 1830-1914

University of Washington Press

£51.96 13 Apr 2026
Empire and Mobility in the Long Nineteenth Century: 170 (Studies in Imperialism)
95% match

Empire and Mobility in the Long Nineteenth Century: 170 (Studies in Imperialism)

Manchester University Press

£62.92 28 Feb 2026
Anxieties, Fear and Panic in Colonial Settings - Macmillan
95% match

Anxieties, Fear and Panic in Colonial Settings - Macmillan

MACMILLAN

£106.82 28 Feb 2026
The British Way in Warfare: Power and the International System, 18561956: Essays in Honour of David French
95% match

The British Way in Warfare: Power and the International System, 18561956: Essays in Honour of David French

Routledge

£41.03 13 Apr 2026
Debating Foreign Policy in Eighteenth-Century Britain
95% match

Debating Foreign Policy in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Routledge

£140.51 10 Mar 2026
Singapore: trade, investment and economic performance
95% match

Singapore: trade, investment and economic performance

World Scientific Publishing Company

£44.04 22 Feb 2026
Manufacturing in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1890-1979: Interest Group Politics, Protectionism & the State
95% match

Manufacturing in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1890-1979: Interest Group Politics, Protectionism & the State

James Currey

£69.33 24 Feb 2026
Yankees in the Indian Ocean: American Commerce and Whaling, 1786–1860 (Indian Ocean Studies Series)
95% match

Yankees in the Indian Ocean: American Commerce and Whaling, 1786–1860 (Indian Ocean Studies Series)

£55.03 03 Mar 2026