Straits of Malacca - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Straits of Malacca write by Donald B. Freeman. This book was released on 2003. Straits of Malacca available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For centuries the Straits of Malacca, a narrow waterway between the Malay peninsula and the island of Sumatra, has been both a major conduit for long distance trade between Asia and the West and one of the most dangerous areas for commercial shipping. Casting a broad net across several disciplines, particularly geography and political economy, Donald Freeman examines the significance of the Straits as both a trade gateway and a choke-point that has forced generations of sailors to run the gauntlet. Rather than the more conventional historical-narrative approach, he offers an innovative adoption of an interdisciplinary, analytical perspective through his use of detailed case studies of trading systems and shipping hazards.
Pirates of Empire
Pirates of Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pirates of Empire write by Stefan Eklöf Amirell. This book was released on 2019-08-29. Pirates of Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This comparative study of piracy and maritime violence provides a fresh understanding of European overseas expansion and colonisation in Asia. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Piracy, Maritime Terrorism and Securing the Malacca Straits
Piracy, Maritime Terrorism and Securing the Malacca Straits - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Piracy, Maritime Terrorism and Securing the Malacca Straits write by Graham Gerard Ong-Webb. This book was released on 2006-11-07. Piracy, Maritime Terrorism and Securing the Malacca Straits available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Maritime piracy continues to persist as a significant phenomenon manifesting a range of social, historical, geo-political, security and economic issues. Today, the waters of Southeast Asia serve as the dominant region for the occurrence of piracy and the challenges it poses to regional security and Malacca Straits security. As a second installment within the Series on Maritime Issues and Piracy in Asia by the International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden University, and the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, the authors of this volume add fresh perspectives to the ongoing debate about piracy, the threat of maritime terrorism, and the challenge of securing the Malacca Straits today.
The Portuguese and the Straits of Melaka, 1575-1619
The Portuguese and the Straits of Melaka, 1575-1619 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Portuguese and the Straits of Melaka, 1575-1619 write by Paulo Jorge De Sousa Pinto. This book was released on 2012-03-01. The Portuguese and the Straits of Melaka, 1575-1619 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Following the fall of the Melaka Sultanate to the Portuguese in 1511, the sultanates of Johor and Aceh emerged as major trading centers alongside Portuguese Melaka. Each power represented wider global interests. Aceh had links with Gujerat, the Ottoman Empire and the Levant. Johor was a center for Javanese merchants and others involved with the Eastern spice trade. Melaka was part of the Estado da India, Portugal's trading empire that extended from Japan to Mozambique. Throughout the sixteenth century, a peculiar balance among the three powers became an important character of the political and economical life in the Straits of Melaka. The arrival of the Dutch in the early seventeenth century upset the balance and led to the decline of Portuguese Melaka. Making extensive use of contemporary Portuguese sources, Paulo Pinto uses geopolitical approach to analyze the financial, political, economic and military institutions that underlay this triangular arrangement, a system that persisted because no one power could achieve an undisputed hegemony. He also considers the position of post-conquest Melaka in the Malay World, where it remained a symbolic center of Malay civilization and a model of Malay political authority despite changes associated with Portuguese rule. In the process provides information on the social, political and genealogical circumstances of the Johor and Aceh sultanates.
Trade and Society in the Straits of Melaka
Trade and Society in the Straits of Melaka - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Trade and Society in the Straits of Melaka write by Nordin Hussin. This book was released on 2007. Trade and Society in the Straits of Melaka available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study compares Melaka and Penang in the context of overall trends - policy, geographical position, nature and direction of trade, and morphology and sociology - and how these factors were influenced by trade and policies. Conclusions are drawn concerning where and how Melaka and Penang fit in the urban traditions of Southeast Asia and the significance of the fact that the period under study coincided with the shift from the height of the "Age of Commerce" towards a period of heightened imperialist activities.
