Piracy and surreptitious activities in the Malay Archipelago and adjacent seas, 1600-1840

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Sim, Y.H. Teddy (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Θέματα: History.; Political economy.; History, general.; Political Economy.

This edited work explores piracy and surreptitious activities such as privateering, war-making, slave-hunting and raiding, focussing on Southeast Asia in the early modern period. Readers will discover nine essays studying the different sub-regions of the Malay Archipelago and adjacent seas and explo...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Contents
• Preface
• Foreword
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Chapter 1: Introduction: Studying piracy and surreptitious activities in Southeast Asia in the early modern period
• Chapter 2: Siak, piracy and early modern Malay warfare
• Chapter 3: From self-defence to an instrument of war: Dutch privateering around the Malay Peninsula in the early 17th century
• Chapter 4: Violence and piratical/surreptitious activities associated with the Chinese in the Melaka-Singapore region, 1780–1840
• Chapter 5: War-making, raiding, slave hunting and piracy in the Malukan Archipelago
• Chapter 6: An exploration into the political background of the Maguindanao “piracy” in the early 18th century
• Chapter 7: Revisiting the political economy and ethnicity of the Sulu Sultanate and its entanglement with the seafaring world
• Chapter 8: Iberians in the adjacent seas: A survey of their piratical and smuggling activities in relation to war and political economy of the South China Sea
• Chapter 9: The Portuguese in the adjacent seas: A survey of their identities and activities in the eastern Indian Ocean and Burman sea
• Maps
• Glossary
• Index.