| The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither Contributor(s): Bird, Isabella L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1547260645 ISBN-13: 9781547260645 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $17.86 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2017 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.91 lbs) 306 pages |
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| Publisher Description: The Portuguese, by their persevering and relentless religious crusade against the Mohammedans, converted all the States which were adjacent to their conquests into enemies, and by 1641 their empire in the Straits was seized upon by the Dutch, who, not being troubled by much religious earnestness, got on very well with the Malay Princes, and succeeded in making advantageous commercial treaties with them. A curious but fairly accurate map of the coasts of the Peninsula was prepared in Paris in 1668 to accompany the narrative of the French envoy to the Court of Siam, but neither the mainland nor the adjacent islands attracted any interest in this country till the East India Company acquired Pinang in 1775, Province Wellesley in 1798, Singapore in 1823, and Malacca in 1824. These small but important colonies were consolidated in 1867 into one Government under the Crown, and are now known as the Straits Settlements, and prized as among the most valuable of our possessions in the Far East. |