Shipwrecks and the maritime history of Singapore / edited by Kwa Chong Guan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kwa, Chong Guan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shipwrecks--Singapore--History.

Shipwrecks.

Underwater archaeology--Singapore.

Underwater archaeology.

Singapore--History, Naval.

Singapore.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 114 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2023.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

On 16 June 2021 the National Heritage Board announced the successful conclusion of the archaeological excavation of two shipwrecks at the eastern approach to Singapore. This maritime archaeology excavation, the largest in Singapore's waters, was conducted by the Archaeology Unit of the ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute over a six-year period. This book documents these two shipwrecks, complemented by essays on Singapore's maritime history, from Temasek in the fourteenth century through the emergence of country trade in the late eighteenth century. These two shipwrecks challenge us to rethink Singapore's history as globally connected, determined by what was happening on the seas in and around the island.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Foreword by Terence Chong

Acknowledgements

Contributors

1. Introduction: Two Historical Shipwrecks and Their Implications for Singapore History by Kwa Chong Guan

2. The Temasek Wreck by Michael Flecker

3. The International History of Temasek: Possibilities for Research Emerging from the Discovery of the Temasek Wreck by Derek Heng

4. Singapore's Waterways before the Modern Era by Benjamin J.Q. Khoo

5. A Seventeenth-Century Port Settlement in the Kallang Estuary by Kwa Chong Guan

6. The Shah Muncher by Michael Flecker

7. Singapore and the Country Trade in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries by Peter Borschberg

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Mar 2024).

Other Format:

Print version: Guan, Kwa Chong Shipwrecks and the Maritime History of Singapore

ISBN:

9789815104479

9815104470

OCLC:

1399169914