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The Memoirs and Memorials of Jacques de Coutre: Security, Trade and Society in 16th- And 17th-Century Southeast Asia
ISBN: 9789971695286 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 500 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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...
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 ...
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210,21 zł |
The Singapore and Melaka Straits: Violence, Security and Diplomacy in the 17th Century
ISBN: 9789067183642 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. 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...
The Singapore and Melaka Straits are a place where regional and long-distance maritime trading networks converge, linking Europe, the Mediterranean, e...
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331,81 zł |
The Memoirs and Memorials of Jacques de Coutreeast Asia : Security, Trade and Society in 17th-Century South
ISBN: 9789971697839 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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...
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 ...
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269,58 zł |
Studying Singapore Before 1800
ISBN: 9789814722742 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Historians rely on Singapore's strategic position to explain its great success as a royal trading port in the 14th century, and as a British colony after 1819. What, then, accounts for the many centuries when it seemed not to thrive, and was seen in the words of John Crawfurd as "only the occasional resort of pirates"? This seeming paradox sits uneasily at the heart of Singapore historiography, and over time historians have suggested a variety of ways to resolve it. This volume collects studies about Singapore before 1800, bringing together different efforts across the 20th century at...
Historians rely on Singapore's strategic position to explain its great success as a royal trading port in the 14th century, and as a British colony af...
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242,59 zł |