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9789814951111 Academic Inspection Copy

1819 & Before

Singapore's Pasts
  • ISBN-13: 9789814951111
  • Publisher: ISEAS
    Imprint: ISEAS
  • Edited by Kwa Chong Guan
  • Price: AUD $89.99
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 29/07/2021
  • Format: Hardback (254.00mm X 177.00mm) 127 pages Weight: 515g
  • Categories: Asian history [HBJF]South East Asia [1FM]
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The essays published here began as a series of lectures commemorating the bicentennial of Thomas Stamford Raffles's establishment of a British Station in 1819. The essays draw on thirty-five years of archaeological investigations on and around Fort Canning, new readings of the Malay Annals, early Chinese records reporting Singapore, and the Portuguese and Dutch records to probe and challenge our understanding of Singapore's history before Raffles. Altogether, these essays suggest that Singapore had a pre-1819 past that was deeply connected to the millennium-long maritime history of the Straits of Melaka and its links to the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean.
Kwa Chong Guan is an Associate Fellow at the Temasek History Research Centre, ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore and Adjunct (Hon.) Associate Professor at the History Department, National University of Singapore.
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