Trade and Society in the Straits of Melaka
Title | Trade and Society in the Straits of Melaka PDF eBook |
Author | Nordin Hussin |
Publisher | NIAS Press |
Total Pages | 418 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 8791114888 |
This study compares Melaka and Penang in the context of overall trends - policy, geographical position, nature and direction of trade, and morphology and sociology - and how these factors were influenced by trade and policies. Conclusions are drawn concerning where and how Melaka and Penang fit in the urban traditions of Southeast Asia and the significance of the fact that the period under study coincided with the shift from the height of the "Age of Commerce" towards a period of heightened imperialist activities.
Trade and Society in the Straits of Melaka
Title | Trade and Society in the Straits of Melaka PDF eBook |
Author | Nordin Hussin |
Publisher | NUS Press |
Total Pages | 420 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9789971693541 |
This study compares Melaka and Penang in the context of overall trends - policy, geographical position, nature and direction of trade, and morphology and sociology - and how these factors were influenced by trade and policies. Conclusions are drawn concerning where and how Melaka and Penang fit in the urban traditions of Southeast Asia and the significance of the fact that the period under study coincided with the shift from the height of the "Age of Commerce" towards a period of heightened imperialist activities.
The Straits of Malacca
Title | The Straits of Malacca PDF eBook |
Author | Hamzah Ahmad |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 380 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Coastwise shipping |
ISBN |
The Portuguese and the Straits of Melaka, 1575-1619
Title | The Portuguese and the Straits of Melaka, 1575-1619 PDF eBook |
Author | Paulo Jorge De Sousa Pinto |
Publisher | NUS Press |
Total Pages | 415 |
Release | 2012-03-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9971695707 |
Following the fall of the Melaka Sultanate to the Portuguese in 1511, the sultanates of Johor and Aceh emerged as major trading centers alongside Portuguese Melaka. Each power represented wider global interests. Aceh had links with Gujerat, the Ottoman Empire and the Levant. Johor was a center for Javanese merchants and others involved with the Eastern spice trade. Melaka was part of the Estado da India, Portugal's trading empire that extended from Japan to Mozambique. Throughout the sixteenth century, a peculiar balance among the three powers became an important character of the political and economical life in the Straits of Melaka. The arrival of the Dutch in the early seventeenth century upset the balance and led to the decline of Portuguese Melaka. Making extensive use of contemporary Portuguese sources, Paulo Pinto uses geopolitical approach to analyze the financial, political, economic and military institutions that underlay this triangular arrangement, a system that persisted because no one power could achieve an undisputed hegemony. He also considers the position of post-conquest Melaka in the Malay World, where it remained a symbolic center of Malay civilization and a model of Malay political authority despite changes associated with Portuguese rule. In the process provides information on the social, political and genealogical circumstances of the Johor and Aceh sultanates.
Straits of Malacca
Title | Straits of Malacca PDF eBook |
Author | Donald B. Freeman |
Publisher | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780773525153 |
For centuries the Straits of Malacca, a narrow waterway between the Malay peninsula and the island of Sumatra, has been both a major conduit for long distance trade between Asia and the West and one of the most dangerous areas for commercial shipping. Casting a broad net across several disciplines, particularly geography and political economy, Donald Freeman examines the significance of the Straits as both a trade gateway and a choke-point that has forced generations of sailors to run the gauntlet. Rather than the more conventional historical-narrative approach, he offers an innovative adoption of an interdisciplinary, analytical perspective through his use of detailed case studies of trading systems and shipping hazards.
Pirates of Empire
Title | Pirates of Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Stefan Eklöf Amirell |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 277 |
Release | 2019-08-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108484212 |
This comparative study of piracy and maritime violence provides a fresh understanding of European overseas expansion and colonisation in Asia. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
The Singapore and Melaka Straits
Title | The Singapore and Melaka Straits PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Borschberg |
Publisher | NUS Press |
Total Pages | 412 |
Release | 2010-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9971694646 |
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.