The Portuguese and the Straits of Melaka, 1575-1619
The Portuguese and the Straits of Melaka, 1575-1619

Author: Paulo Jorge De Sousa Pinto

Publisher: NUS Press

Published: 2012-03-01

Total Pages: 415

ISBN-13: 9971695707

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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.

Pirates of Empire
Pirates of Empire

Author: Stefan Eklöf Amirell

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-08-29

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1108484212

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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.

Old Malacca
Old Malacca

Author: Sarnia Hayes Hoyt

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13:

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Beautifully illustrated with color reproductions, black and white prints, and maps, Old Malacca introduces readers to Malacca's historical periods to explain how the city has acquired its present-day character, and to remind readers of the various elements which have gone into Malacca's cultural make-up. Beginning as a fishing settlement before Parameswara arrived around 1400 A.D., Malacca became the greatest emporium the world had ever known. It was a place crammed so full of all kinds of goods that they almost overflowed into the river itself, and many of the townsmen became rich. Drawing on early chroniclers and travelers' tales, Sarnia Hayes Hoyt examines Malacca's golden age and the colonial periods that followed, when the Portuguese, Dutch, and finally the British imposed a new maritime trading organization on Malacca and the South-East Asian region. Old Malacca offers a balanced perspective which gives due credit to the various eras of Malacca's history.

The Story of Malacca
The Story of Malacca

Author: Allein G. Moore

Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore

Published: 2022-03-02

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1543768458

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There was a gap of fifty years between the last book on the history of Malacca and this one written by Allein G Moore. Sultans and Spices, Guns and Greed, Race and Religion: The Story of Malacca will be valuable not only to a visitor to this historic city but will also inspire pride in Malaysians for it is also the story of the birth and growth of a nation. Allein takes the reader on a comprehensive but easy-to-read journey from its beginnings as a sleepy coastal fishing village on the west coast of Malaysia to its development into one of the most important trading centres in the world. The author brings to life the events and individuals who helped created Malacca in the long distant past and in more recent years. This book grew out of his own personal curiosity, and he writes not only to tell visitors more about his home town but also to inspire Malaccans to love and preserve their heritage.

International Law and Islam
International Law and Islam

Author: Ignacio de la Rasilla

Publisher: Brill's Arab and Islamic Laws

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 9789004388284

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International Law and Islam: Historical Explorationsoffers a unique opportunity to examine the Islamic contribution to the development of international law in historical perspective. The role of Islam in its various intellectual, political and legal manifestations within the history of international law is part of the exciting intellectual renovation of international and global legal history in the dawn of the twenty-first century. The present volume is an invitation to engage with this thriving development after 'generations of prejudiced writing' regarding the notable contribution of Islam to international law and its history.

History of Malacca
History of Malacca

Author: Source Wikipedia

Publisher: University-Press.org

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 9781230572321

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Malacca Sultanate, Parameswara, Dutch-Portuguese War, William Farquhar, Portuguese Malacca, Dutch Malacca, Hang Tuah, Rafael Perestrello, Frol de la mar, Mahmud Shah of Malacca, Tun Abdul Jamil, Capture of Malacca, Mansur Shah of Malacca, Alauddin Riayat Shah of Malacca, Hang Li Po, Tun Ali of Malacca, Tun Perak, Straits Settlement of Malacca, Diogo Lopes de Sequeira, Dol Said, Tun Mutahir of Malacca, Abu Syahid Shah, Laksamana Hang Nadim, Tun Perpatih Putih, Megat Iskandar Shah of Malacca, Muhammad Shah of Malacca, Thomas Otho Travers, Tin ingot, Muzaffar Shah of Malacca. Excerpt: Parameswara (1344-1414), also called Iskandar Shah or Sri Majara, was a Malay-Hindu prince from Temasek (modern-day Singapore) who founded the Malacca Sultanate around 1402. The name Parameswara is derived from the Sanskrit word Parame hvara, a Hindu concept literally meaning the "Supreme Lord." The word "parama" meaning "the supreme" is added to Ishvara to intensify the title of God. Parame hvara is also one of the names of Lord Shiva. The name is believed to be a small part of a longer regnal title which was something common among Malay royals until present day. Apart from Parameswara the founder of Malacca, there were two other rulers from the same lineage that use Parameswara in their regnal title, they are Sang Nila Utama, the founder of ancient Singapura (titled "Sri Maharaja Sang Utama Parameswara Batara Sri Tri Buana") and Abu Syahid Shah, the fourth Sultan of Malacca (titled "Raja Sri Parameswara Dewa Shah"). In the 14th century, Srivijaya was losing its influence and faced threats from various corners of the Maritime Southeast Asia. The Majapahit empire, centered in Java, was expanding its borders beyond Java. The Srivijayan empire had previously controlled parts of Java but it was driven out of in 1290 by the increasingly...

Melaka
Melaka

Author: Mansor Puteh

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 699

ISBN-13: 9789834094102

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