Raffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History Condition:Well Read Jessie Coulson’s translation provides the

Jessie Coulson’s translation provides the text for the Third Edition of this acclaimed Norton Critical Edition

this means optimal relationships with all the major powers to best advance its goals

surrounded by men vying for her affections

arcane treatises on cabbalism and magic

As a community struggles to cope with the loss of the missing girl

Raffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History Condition:Well Read Jessie Coulson’s translation provides theWhy did independent Singapore celebrate two hundred years of its founding as a British colony in 2019? Why did it do so with a history dating from 1299? And what are the possibilities of doing decolonial history in Singapore? Raffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History presents essays by historians, literary scholars and artists which grapple with these questions. The volume also reproduces some of the source material used in the play Merdeka (Wild