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This article takes the long duree perspective to the history of Singapore over the course of about 5 centuries. It identifies 3 long-term-upcycles and 2-long-term downcycles each lasting about one century.

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The article makes it clear that Singapore was destroyed and reconstructed several times. The island was not an abandoned or forgotten place after the settlement's destruction in the 1390s.

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This page is a summary of: Singapore in the Cycles of the Longue Durée, Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, January 2017, Project Muse,
DOI: 10.1353/ras.2017.0002.
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