| 1819 & Before: Singapore's Pasts Contributor(s): Guan, Kwa Chong (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9814951110 ISBN-13: 9789814951111 Publisher: Iseas - Yusof Ishak Institute OUR PRICE: $36.91 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - Southeast Asia |
| Physical Information: 0.38" H x 7" W x 10" (1.04 lbs) 146 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The essays published here began as a series of lectures commemorating the bicentennial of Thomas Stamford Raffles's establishment of a British Station in 1819. The essays draw on thirty-five years of archaeological investigations on and around Fort Canning, new readings of the Malay Annals, early Chinese records reporting Singapore, and the Portuguese and Dutch records to probe and challenge our understanding of Singapore's history before Raffles. Altogether, these essays suggest that Singapore had a pre-1819 past that was deeply connected to the millennium-long maritime history of the Straits of Melaka and its links to the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean. |