Studying Singapore before 1800 / edited by Kwa Chong Guan & Peter Borschberg ; with the assistance of Benajmin J.Q. Khoo & Xu Shengwei.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kwa, Chong Guan, editor.

Borschberg, Peter, editor.

Khoo, Benajmin, contributor.

Xu, Shengwei, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic history.

Politics and government.

Economic conditions.

History.

Singapore--History.

Singapore.

Singapore--Politics and government--History.

Singapore--Economic conditions--History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

408 pages, 30 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Singapore : NUS Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Contents:

1 Lung-ya-men and Tan-ma-his p. 27 / Roland Braddell

2 Singapore in the Remote Past p. 43 / Hsü Yün-ts'iao

3 The Ancient History of Singapore p. 53 / Brian E. Colless

4 The Century of Singhapura p. 66 / Paul Wheatley

5 Was Melaka an Emporium Named Malayur before 1400 CE? And Where was Wurawari, Ma-Hasin, Langka and Batu Sawar? p. 81 / Pieter Gerritsz Rouffaer

6 The Early History of Singapore, Johore and Melaka: An Outline of a Paper by Gerrit Pieter Rouffaer p. 118 / Richard O. Winstedt

7 A Note on the Founding of Singapore p. 122 / Richard O. Winstedt

8 Confrontation on a River: Singapore as an Eighteenth-century Battleground in Malay Historiography p. 124 / Timothy P. Barnard

9 The Seri Bija Diraja in the Tradition of the Great Lords of Melaka in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries p. 131 / Muhammad Yusoff Hashim

10 The Structure of Power in Seventeenth-century Johor p. 139 / Leonard Y. Andaya

11 Boat People in the Western Archipelago during the Portuguese Period p. 155 / David E. Sopher

12 From Temasek to Singapore: Locating a Global City-State in the Cycles of Melaka Straits History p. 179 / Kwa Chong Guan

13 A Sea-Fight Near Singapore in the 1570s p. 206 / Ian A. Macgregor

14 Singapore Old Strait and New Harbour, 1300-1870 p. 221 / Carl Alexander Gibson-Hill

15 A Portuguese-Dutch Naval Battle in the Johor River Estuary and the Liberation of Johor Lama in 1603 p. 309 / Peter Borschberg

16 The Old Naval Trade Route through the Strait of Melaka in Connection with the Geomorphology of the Selat Islands p. 325 / Victor Obdeijn

17 Shahbandars in the Archipelago p. 354 / Purnadi Purbatjaraka

18 Singapore in 1819: The Beginnings of a New Kerajaan p. 366 / Kwa Chong Guan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789814722742

981472274X

OCLC:

1020709665

Publisher Number:

99978952977