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Author Coutre, Jacques de, 1572-1640, author.

Title The memoirs and memorials of Jacques de Coutre : security, trade, and society in 16th and 17th-Century Southeast Asia / edited with an introduction by Peter Borschberg ; translated by Roopanjali Roy
Published Singapore : NUS Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (xxviii, 453 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps
Contents Jacques de Coutre's life in Southeast Asia -- Memorials of Jacques de Coutre to the crown and viceroy
Summary 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 eye for the cultures he encountered, the memoirs tell the story of his adventures in the trading centres of the day: Melaka, Ayutthaya, Patani, Pahang, Johor, Brunei, and Manila. Narrowly escaping death several times, De Coutre was inevitably drawn into dangerous intrigues between the representatives of European power, myriad fortune hunters and schemers, and the rulers and courtiers in the palaces of Pahang, Patani, Siam, and Johor. In addition to his autobiography, De Coutre wrote a series of memorials to the united crown of Spain and Portugal that contain recommendations designed to remedy the decline in the fortunes of the Iberian powers in Southeast Asia, particularly against the backdrop of early Dutch political and commercial penetration into the region
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 386-400) and index
Notes In English, translated from Spanish
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Subject Coutre, Jacques de, 1572-1640 -- Travel -- Asia
SUBJECT Coutre, Jacques de, 1572-1640 fast
Coutre, Jacques de 1577-1640 gnd
Subject Travel
Überseehandel
Handelsreise
Koloniale economie.
SUBJECT Asia -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
Malacca (Malacca, Malaysia) -- History
Johor (Malaysia) -- History
Subject Asia
Malaysia -- Johor
Malaysia -- Malacca (Malacca)
Asien
Südostasien
Portugese koloniën.
Zuid-Azië.
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Early works
History
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Borschberg, Peter, editor.
Roy, Roopanjali, translator.
ISBN 9789971696832
9971696835