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Journal, Memorials and Letters of Cornelis Matelieff De Jonge
Security, Diplomacy and Commerce in 17th-Century Southeast Asia
Inbunden, 2015
683 kr
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Admiral Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge, a Director in the Rotterdam chamber of the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) for three decades during the early 17th century, set sail from the Dutch Republic in 1605. He launched an attack on Portuguese Melaka in 1606 and signed landmark treaties with the rulers …
Memoirs and Memorials of Jacques De Coutreeast Asia
Security, Trade and Society in 17th-Century South
Inbunden, 2013
726 kr
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Jacques de Coutre was a Flemish gem trader who spent nearly a decade in Southeast Asia at the turn of the 17th century. He left history a substantial autobiography written in Spanish and preserved in the National Library of Spain in Madrid. Written in the form of a picaresque tale, with an acute …
Studying Singapore Before 1800
Av Kwa Chong Guan, Kwa Chong Guan m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
582 kr
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Historians rely on Singapore’s strategic position to explain its great success as a royal trading port in the 14th century, and as a British colony after 1819. What, then, accounts for the many centuries when it seemed not to thrive, and was seen in the words of John Crawfurd as “only the …
Jacques De Coutre's Singapore and Johor, 1594-c.1625
Häftad, 2015
176 kr
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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 …
