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.
Journal, Memorials and Letters of Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge
Journal, Memorials and Letters of Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge - 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 Journal, Memorials and Letters of Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge write by Peter Borschberg. This book was released on 2015-07-31. Journal, Memorials and Letters of Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Admiral Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge was a Director in the Rotterdam chamber of the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) for three decades in the early 17th century. In May 1605 he set sail from the Dutch Republic with a fleet of 11 ships, and in the following year launched an unsuccessful attack on Portuguese Melaka. After visiting various locations in the region and signing landmark treaties with the rulers of Johor (1606) and Ternate (1607), he returned to the Netherlands in 1608. There he wrote a series of epistolary reports and memoranda that were carefully studied by leading policy makers in the Republic, among them the renowned jurist Hugo Grotius, and the politician and diplomat Johan van Oldenbarnevelt. Early VOC policy for south-eastern Asia drew heavily on Matelieff's submissions, and the materials reproduced in this volume provide candid insights into key elements of VOC strategy, trade, security and regional diplomacy, as well as Dutch relations with Spain and Portugal. Here translated into English for the first time, this collection of Matelieff's writings is an invaluable resource for students of business history, early colonial history, and the history of international law.
Jacques de Coutre's Singapore and Johor 1594-c.1625
Jacques de Coutre's Singapore and Johor 1594-c.1625 - 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 Jacques de Coutre's Singapore and Johor 1594-c.1625 write by Peter Borschberg. This book was released on 2014-12-29. Jacques de Coutre's Singapore and Johor 1594-c.1625 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Flemish gem trader Jacques de Coutre visited Southeast Asia in the early 17th century, and his lengthy account of his experiences provides a glimpse of Singapore, Johor and the Straits of Melaka during an era for which little written material has survived. This special edition, which presents highlights from the full translation, is designed to provide students, teachers and the wider public with a glimpse of this tumultuous region when it was still controlled by local rulers, and Western colonialism was just gaining a foothold. The author describes dangerous intrigues involving fortune hunters and schemers, as well as local rulers and couriers, adventures that on several occasions nearly cost him his life.
1819 & Before
1819 & Before - 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 1819 & Before write by Kwa Chong Guan. This book was released on 2021-04-02. 1819 & Before available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The essays published here began as a series of lectures commemorating the bicentennial of Thomas Stamford Raffles’s establishment of a British Station in 1819. The essays draw on thirty-five years of archaeological investigations on and around Fort Canning, new readings of the Malay Annals, early Chinese records reporting Singapore, and the Portuguese and Dutch records to probe and challenge our understanding of Singapore’s history before Raffles. Altogether, these essays suggest that Singapore had a pre-1819 past that was deeply connected to the millennium-long maritime history of the Straits of Melaka and its links to the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean.
Singapore
Singapore - 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 Singapore write by Michael D. Barr. This book was released on 2018-12-13. Singapore available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Singapore gained independence in 1965, a city-state in a world of nation-states. Yet its long and complex history reaches much farther back. Blending modernity and tradition, ideologies and ethnicities, a peculiar set of factors make Singapore what it is today. In this thematic study of the island nation, Michael D. Barr proposes a new approach to understand this development. From the pre-colonial period through to the modern day, he traces the idea, the politics and the geography of Singapore over five centuries of rich history. In doing so he rejects the official narrative of the so-called 'Singapore Story'. Drawing on in-depth archival work and oral histories, Singapore: A Modern History is a work both for students of the country's history and politics, but also for any reader seeking to engage with this enigmatic and vastly successful nation.
