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Author : Lady Sophia Raffles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1830
Category : Colonial administrators
ISBN : BL:A0019044362
Author : Hussein Alatas (Syed)
Publisher : National University of Singapore Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Colonial administrators
ISBN : 9813251182
More than two hundred years after Thomas Stamford Raffles established a British factory on the island of Singapore, he continues to be a towering figure in the nation. Not one but two statues of Raffles stand prominently in Singapore's civic and heritage district, streets and squares are named after him, and important local businesses use his name. But does Raffles deserve this recognition? Should he continue to be celebrated--or like Cecil Rhodes in South Africa, must Raffles fall? This is not a new question--in fact, it was considered at length as far back as 1971, in Syed Hussein Alatas's slim but devastating volume Thomas Stamford Raffles: Schemer or Reformer?. While the book failed to spark a wide debate on Raffles's legacy in 1970s Singapore, nearly 50 years after its original publication this powerful work feels wholly fresh and relevant. This edition features a new introduction by Syed Farid Alatas assessing contemporary Singapore's take on Raffles, and how far we have, or have not, come in thinking through Singapore's colonial legacy.
Author : Lady Sophia Raffles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Indonesia
ISBN : MSU:31293028936551
Author : Victoria Glendinning
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781847658241
By the time of his death, Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826) was the founder of Singapore and Governor of Java, having left school in his early teens to become a clerk for the British East India Company. Charismatic and daring, Raffles forged an extraordinary path for himself in South East Asia - refusing to be satisfied with the trading posts available to the British, he defied Dutch governors and wrangled with warring local rulers to establish what is now a world city. An ardent linguist and zoologist, Raffles spoke fluent Malay and found time to write The History of Java, as well as naming several species of flora and fauna he discovered on his travels. He founded London Zoo and promoted the study of Malay alongside European languages in Southeast Asia. Raffles remains a controversial figure - a utopian imperialist, disobedient employee and knight of the realm who died deeply in debt, predeceased by all but one of his children. He built racial segregation into his urban planning, but was also a staunch abolitionist. Renowned biographer Victoria Glendinning charts Raffles' prodigious rise in this new edition, specially updated for the bicentenary of the foundation of Singapore in 1819. His life was short, complicated and shot through with tragedy, but Raffles' fame lives on.
Author : Thomas Stamford Raffles
Publisher : Franklin Classics
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0341944742
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Author : Lady Sophia Raffles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015013742229
Author : John Bastin,Julie Weizenegger
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789810972363
Author : Lady Sophia Raffles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1830
Category : Colonial administrators
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000126164
Author : Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1814
Category : Indonesia
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000126173
Author : Hugh Edward Egerton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : East Asia
ISBN : UCAL:B3884930
Author : Tim Hannigan
Publisher : Monsoon Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789814358866
In 1811, an army of 10,000 British redcoats splashed ashore through the muddy shallows off Batavia (now Jakarta) to conquer the Dutch colony of Java. They would remain there for five turbulent years. Drawing on both British and Javanese archival sources, this narrative history-cum-biography explores the bloody battles and furious controversies that marked British rule in Java, and reveals the future founder of Singapore, Thomas Stamford Raffles in a shocking new light.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1830
Category : Colonial administrators
ISBN : OCLC:961099234
Author : Demetrius Charles Boulger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : British
ISBN : SRLF:D0006688899
Author : Hussein Alatas (Syed)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Indonesia
ISBN : UCAL:$B588945
Author : Lady Sophia Raffles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 823 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Colonial administrators
ISBN : 0195889975
The historical reputation of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, the founder of Singapore, owes more to his second wife, Sophia Raffles, than to any other person. Lady Raffles's Memoir traces Raffles's remarkable career from its humble beginnings as a junior clerk in the East India Company's offices in London, to his becoming Lieutenant-Governor of Java and its dependencies during the Napoleonic Wars, and of West Sumatra during 1818-24, when he founded Singapore and laid down the regulations forits government.