Early Singapore, 1300s-1819 : evidence in maps, text and artefacts
Digitised Book 216.73.216.10 (0)
2004
Information About
This collection of nine essays presents new facets of Singapore’s pre-colonial history by combining analysis of archaeological artefacts, writings and maps. The essays illuminate the importance of Singapore in regional history before the arrival of Sir Stamford Raffles.
Additional Details
- Title
- Early Singapore, 1300s-1819 : evidence in maps, text and artefacts
- Subject
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- Singapore--Antiquities
- Singapore--History
- Publisher
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- National Library Board Singapore, 2004
- Singapore History Museum , 2004
- Contributors
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- Miksic, John N.
- Low, Cheryl-Ann Mei Gek, 1973-
- Lee, Chee Kheong
- Digital Description
- application/pdf, ill. (some col.), maps (some col.)
- Table of Contents
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- a port of trade / John N. Miksic -- Ancient Singapore earthenware pottery / Omar Chen -- Economic networks between the Malay region and the hinterlands of Quanzhou and Guangzhou: Temasek and the Chinese ceramics and foodstuffs Trade / Derek Heng Thiam Soon -- 16th-century underglazed blue porcelain sherds from the Kallang estuary / Kwa Chang Guan -- Sailing past Singapore / Kwa Chang Guan -- Portuguese-Dutch naval battle in the Johor River estuary and the liberation of Johor Lama in 1603 / Peter Barschberg -- Confrontation on a river: Singapore as a battleground in 18th-century Malay historiography / Timothy P. Barnard -- From Temasek to Singapore: locating global city-state in the cycles of Melaka Straits history / Kwa Chang Guan -- Index.
- Copyright
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- All rights reserved. Singapore History Museum, 2004