The Singapore And Melaka Straits

Author : Peter Borschberg
Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 : 9971694646
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Singapore and Melaka Straits written by Peter Borschberg and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Singapore and Melaka Straits are a place where regional and long-distance maritime trading networks converge, linking Europe, the Mediterranean, eastern Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and the Indian subcontinent with key centres of trade in Thailand, Indochina, insular Southeast Asia, China, Korea and Japan. The first half of the 17th century brought heightened political, commercial and diplomatic activity to this region. It had long been clear to both the Portuguese and the Dutch that whoever controlled the waters off modern Singapore gained a firm grip on regional as well as long-distance intra-Asian trade. By the early 1600s Portuguese power and prestige were waning and the arrival of the Dutch East India Company constituted a major threat. Moreover, the rapid expansion and growing power of the Acehnese Empire, and rivalry between Johor and Aceh, was creating a new context for European trade in Asia.

Author : Peter Borschberg
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783447051071
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iberians in the Singapore-Melaka Area and Adjacent Regions (16th to 18th Century) written by Peter Borschberg and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2004 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at a colloquium, "The Iberian powers in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore, and in Southeast Asia," held in Singapore, May 13-14 2002, organized by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore.

Author : Paulo Jorge De Sousa Pinto
Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 : 9971695707
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Portuguese and the Straits of Melaka, 1575-1619 written by Paulo Jorge De Sousa Pinto and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Hamzah Ahmad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Straits of Malacca written by Hamzah Ahmad and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : A. S. Bashford
Publisher : Hyperion Books
ISBN 13 : 9780948691294
Total Pages : 17 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Straits of Malacca and Singapore written by A. S. Bashford and published by Hyperion Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nordin Hussin
Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 : 9789971693541
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trade and Society in the Straits of Melaka written by Nordin Hussin and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Stefan Eklöf Amirell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108484212
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pirates of Empire written by Stefan Eklöf Amirell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Donald B. Freeman
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773525153
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Straits of Malacca written by Donald B. Freeman and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2003 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Yaacov Vertzberger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coastal States, Regional Powers, Superpowers, and the Malacca-Singapore Straits written by Yaacov Vertzberger and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Catherine Howes Osman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Straits of Malacca and Singapore written by Catherine Howes Osman and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: