Admiral Matelieff S Singapore And Johor 1606 1616

Author : Peter Borschberg
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9789814722186

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Admiral Matelieff's Singapore and Johor, 1606-1616 by Peter Borschberg Pdf

Few authors have as much to say about Singapore and Johor in the early 17th century as Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge (c.1570‒1632). This admiral of the Dutch East India Company sailed to Asia in 1605 and besieged Portuguese Melaka in 1606 with the help of Malay allies. A massive Portuguese armada arrived from Goa to fight the Dutch at sea, break the siege and relieve the Portuguese colony. During his Asian voyage and on his return to Europe in September 1608, Matelieff penned a series of letters and memorials in which he provided a candid assessment of trading opportunities and politics in Asia. He advised the VOC and leading government officials of the Dutch Republic to take a long term view of Dutch involvement in Asia and fundamentally change the way they were doing business there. Singapore, the Straits region, and Johor assumed a significant role in his overall assessment. At one stage he seriously contemplated establishing the VOC’s main Asian base at a location near the Johor River estuary. On deeper reflection, however, Matelieff and the VOC directors in Europe began to shift their attention southward and instead preferred a location around the Sunda Strait. This was arguably a near miss for Singapore two full centuries before Thomas Stamford Raffles founded the British trading post on the island in 1819.

Author : Cornelis Matelief (de Jonge)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Johor (Malaysia)
ISBN : 9810959389

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Admiral Matelieff's Singapore and Johor (1606-1616) by Cornelis Matelief (de Jonge) Pdf

Author : Peter Borschberg
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 699 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789971695279

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Journal, Memorials and Letters of Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge by Peter Borschberg Pdf

Admiral Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge was a Director in the Rotterdam chamber of the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) for three decades in the early 17th century. In May 1605 he set sail from the Dutch Republic with a fleet of 11 ships, and in the following year launched an unsuccessful attack on Portuguese Melaka. After visiting various locations in the region and signing landmark treaties with the rulers of Johor (1606) and Ternate (1607), he returned to the Netherlands in 1608. There he wrote a series of epistolary reports and memoranda that were carefully studied by leading policy makers in the Republic, among them the renowned jurist Hugo Grotius, and the politician and diplomat Johan van Oldenbarnevelt. Early VOC policy for south-eastern Asia drew heavily on Matelieff's submissions, and the materials reproduced in this volume provide candid insights into key elements of VOC strategy, trade, security and regional diplomacy, as well as Dutch relations with Spain and Portugal. Here translated into English for the first time, this collection of Matelieff's writings is an invaluable resource for students of business history, early colonial history, and the history of international law.

Author : Michael D. Barr
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786735270

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Singapore by Michael D. Barr Pdf

Singapore gained independence in 1965, a city-state in a world of nation-states. Yet its long and complex history reaches much farther back. Blending modernity and tradition, ideologies and ethnicities, a peculiar set of factors make Singapore what it is today. In this thematic study of the island nation, Michael D. Barr proposes a new approach to understand this development. From the pre-colonial period through to the modern day, he traces the idea, the politics and the geography of Singapore over five centuries of rich history. In doing so he rejects the official narrative of the so-called 'Singapore Story'. Drawing on in-depth archival work and oral histories, Singapore: A Modern History is a work both for students of the country's history and politics, but also for any reader seeking to engage with this enigmatic and vastly successful nation.

Author : Martine Julia van Ittersum
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004536029

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The Working Papers of Hugo Grotius by Martine Julia van Ittersum Pdf

The Working Papers of Hugo Grotius is the first full-length study of the handwritten documents initially used by the author of Mare Liberum (1609) and De Jure Belli ac Pacis (1625) in his day-to-day activities as a scholar, lawyer, and politician, but subsequently incorporated into his own or other archives. Martine van Ittersum reconstructs a process of transmission, dispersal, and loss that started during Grotius’ lifetime and ended with the papers’ auction in 1864. This is also a study of archival afterlives. Our understanding of Grotius’ life and work is shaped by the conscious decisions of previous generations to retain or discard documents, frequently for the sake of individual lives and careers, family honour and/or larger political and religious ends.

Author : National Library Board
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789811444982

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Stories from the Stacks by National Library Board Pdf

The Rare Materials Collection at the National Library, Singapore, contains more than 11,000 items and spans six centuries of history. The collection comprises books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, correspondence, and more, which together provide us with valuable insights into Singapore’s history. This book presents a diverse selection of almost 50 of the rarest and most priceless items in the collection, including the Mao Kun Map, a recently-acquired Munshi Abdullah edition of the Sejarah Melayu, 19th century lithographs, Japanese reconnaissance maps, correspondence from Raffles, and even a football rule book in Jawi. Each item is described and analysed with an insightful essay and richly complemented with illustrations, helping to bring these stories from the stacks to life and lead us down new avenues of historical understanding.

Author : Cornelis Matelief (de jonge)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Malaysia
ISBN : 9971698234

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Journal, Memorials and Letters of Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge by Cornelis Matelief (de jonge) Pdf

Author : Peter Borschberg
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789971694647

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The Singapore and Melaka Straits by Peter Borschberg Pdf

The Singapore and Melaka Straits are a place where regional and long-distance maritime trading networks converge, linking Europe, the Mediterranean, eastern Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and the Indian subcontinent with key centres of trade in Thailand, Indochina, insular Southeast Asia, China, Korea and Japan. The first half of the 17th century brought heightened political, commercial and diplomatic activity to this region. It had long been clear to both the Portuguese and the Dutch that whoever controlled the waters off modern Singapore gained a firm grip on regional as well as long-distance intra-Asian trade. By the early 1600s Portuguese power and prestige were waning and the arrival of the Dutch East India Company constituted a major threat. Moreover, the rapid expansion and growing power of the Acehnese Empire, and rivalry between Johor and Aceh, was creating a new context for European trade in Asia.

Author : Hans W. Blom
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004175136

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Property, Piracy and Punishment by Hans W. Blom Pdf

Contains papers from a conference on De iure praedae, held in June 2005 at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Author : Peter Borschberg
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Iberians
ISBN : 3447051078

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Iberians in the Singapore-Melaka Area and Adjacent Regions (16th to 18th Century) by Peter Borschberg Pdf

Papers presented at a colloquium, "The Iberian powers in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore, and in Southeast Asia," held in Singapore, May 13-14 2002, organized by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004274921

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The Twelve Years Truce (1609) by Anonim Pdf

The Twelve Years Truce of 9 April 1609 made a temporary end to the hostilities between Spain and the Northern Netherlands that had lasted for over four decades. The Truce signified a crucial step in the recognition of the Republic of the Northern Netherlands as a sovereign power. As the direct source of inspiration for the 1648 Peace of Munster the Truce is a crucial text in the formation of the early modern law of nations. As few other texts, it reflects the radical changes to the laws of war and peace from around 1600. The Twelve Years Truce offers a collection of essays by leading specialists on the diplomatic and legal history of the Antwerp Truce of 1609. The first part covers the negotiation process leading up to the Truce. The second part collects essays on the consequences of the Truce on the state of war. In the third part, the consequences of the Truce for the sovereignty of the Northern and Southern Netherlands as well as it wider significance for the changing laws of war and peace of the age are scrutinised.

Author : Peter Borschberg
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789971694678

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Hugo Grotius, the Portuguese, and Free Trade in the East Indies by Peter Borschberg Pdf

This book considers the background to the treatises, their content and significance, and what Grotius actually knew about Southeast Asian polities or Portuguese institutions of trade and diplomacy when he wrote them. --

Author : Peter Borschberg
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789971697839

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The Memoirs and Memorials of Jacques de Coutre by Peter Borschberg Pdf

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, Cambodia, 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.

Author : Peter Borschberg
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9789971698522

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Jacques de Coutre's Singapore and Johor 1594-c.1625 by Peter Borschberg Pdf

The Flemish gem trader Jacques de Coutre visited Southeast Asia in the early 17th century, and his lengthy account of his experiences provides a glimpse of Singapore, Johor and the Straits of Melaka during an era for which little written material has survived. This special edition, which presents highlights from the full translation, is designed to provide students, teachers and the wider public with a glimpse of this tumultuous region when it was still controlled by local rulers, and Western colonialism was just gaining a foothold. The author describes dangerous intrigues involving fortune hunters and schemers, as well as local rulers and couriers, adventures that on several occasions nearly cost him his life.

Author : George L. van Driem
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9004444726

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The Tale of Tea by George L. van Driem Pdf

The Tale of Teais the saga of globalisation. Tea gave birth to paper money, the Opium Wars and Hong Kong, triggered the Anglo-Dutch wars and the American war of independence, shaped the economies and military history of Táng and Sòng China and moulded Chinese art and culture. Whilst black tea dominates the global market today, such tea is a recent invention. No tea plantations existed in the world's largest black tea producing countries, India, Kenya and Sri Lanka, when the Dutch and the English went to war about tea in the 17th century. This book replaces popular myths about tea with recondite knowledge on the hidden origins and detailed history of today's globalised beverage in its many modern guises.