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Title Studying Singapore before 1800 / edited by Kwa Chong Guan & Peter Borschberg ; with the assistance of Benajmin J.Q. Khoo & Xu Shengwei
Published Singapore : NUS Press, [2018]
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Series Book collections on Project MUSE
Contents Half title page; Full title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Abbreviations; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Editorial Note; Introduction; Chapter 1 -- Lung-ya-men and Tan-ma-hsi; Chapter 2 -- Singapore in the Remote Past; Chapter 3 -- The Ancient History of Singapore; Chapter 4 -- The Century of Singhapura; Chapter 5 -- Was Melaka an Emporium Named Malayur before 1400 ce? And Where was Wurawari, Ma-Hasin, Langka and Batu Sawar; Chapter 6 -- The Early History of Singapore, Johore and Melaka: An Outline of a Paper by Gerrit Pieter Rouffaer
Chapter 7 -- A Note on the Founding of SingaporeChapter 8 -- Confrontation on a River: Singapore as an Eighteenth-century Battleground in Malay Historiography; Chapter 9 -- The Seri Bija Diraja in the Tradition of the Great Lords of Melaka in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries; Chapter 10 -- The Structure of Power in Seventeenth-century Johor; Chapter 11 -- Boat People in the Western Archipelago during the Portuguese Period; Chapter 12 -- From Temasek to Singapore: Locating a Global City-State in the Cycles of Melaka Straits History; Chapter 13 -- A Sea-Fight Near Singapore in the 1570s
Chapter 14 -- Singapore Old Strait and New Harbour, 1300-1870Chapter 15 -- A Portuguese-Dutch Naval Battle in the Johor River Estuary and the Liberation of Johor Lama in 1603; Chapter 16 -- The Old Naval Trade Route through the Strait of Melaka in Connection with the Geomorphology of the Selat Islands; Chapter 17 -- Shahbandars in the Archipelago; Chapter 18 -- Singapore in 1819: The Beginnings of a New Kerajaan; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Subject HISTORY -- Asia -- Southeast Asia.
Economic history
Politics and government
SUBJECT Singapore -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89004087
Singapore -- Politics and government -- History
Singapore -- Economic conditions -- History
Subject Singapore
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Kwa, Chong Guan, editor
Borschberg, Peter, editor
Khoo, Benajmin, contributor
Xu, Shengwei, contributor
LC no. 2018333403
ISBN 9789813250659
9813250658