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Security Trade And Society In Seventeenthcentury Southeast Asia The Memoirs And Memorials Of Jacques De Coutre Borschberg

SKU: BELL-10682962

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Security Trade And Society In Seventeenthcentury Southeast Asia The Memoirs And Memorials Of Jacques De Coutre Borschberg instant download after payment.

Publisher: Singapore University Press

File Extension: PDF

File size: 149.56 MB

Pages: 272

Author: Borschberg, Peter; Coutre, Jacques de

ISBN: 9789971695286, 9971695286

Language: English

Year: 2014

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Security Trade And Society In Seventeenthcentury Southeast Asia The Memoirs And Memorials Of Jacques De Coutre Borschberg by Borschberg, Peter; Coutre, Jacques De 9789971695286, 9971695286 instant download after payment.

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, Patani, Pahang, Johor, Brunei and Manila. Narrowly escaping death several times, De Coutre was inevitably drawn into dangerous intrigues between the representatives of European power, myriad fortune hunters and schemers, and the rulers and courtiers in the palaces of Pahang, Patani, Siam and Johor.0In addition to his autobiography, De Coutre wrote a series of memorials to the united crown of Spain and Portugal that contain recommendations designed to remedy the decline in the fortunes of the Iberian powers in Southeast Asia, particularly against the backdrop of early Dutch political and commercial penetration into the region.0Annotated and translated into English for the first time, these materials provide a valuable first-hand account of the issues confronting the early colonial powers in Southeast Asia, and deep into the societies De Coutre encountered in the territory that today makes up Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia and the Philippines. The book is lavishly illustrated with 62 maps and drawings of the period, including many examples not previously published.