Christopher Hale
Brief History of Singapore and Malaysia Paperback Book
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The fascinating account of two former British colonies with a shared past but vastly different identities today!Singapore and Malaysia sit astride the sea lanes linking East with Westvital choke points in the worlds commerce. Since ancient times, ports along the Silk Road of the Sea were populated by peoples from around the globe who came here to trade and live, carried by the steady flow of goods and the everpresent monsoon winds.Author Christopher Hale recounts many fascinating histories of this region, includingThe ancient international trade in spices and the seven voyages to the southern seas of the Chinese eunuch Admiral Zheng He in the 15th centuryThe rise of Islamic kingdoms along rivers bordering the Straits of Malacca and the conquest of Malacca, one of the worlds largest cities, by a few hundred Portuguese marauders in 1511The saga of Sir Stamford Raffles, credited with founding Singapore, and the development of tin mines and vast rubber and oil palm plantations on the Malay PeninsulaThe disastrous fall of "Fortress Singapore" to the Japanese in World War II after only three weeks of fighting, the worst British military defeat in historyThe wildly successful film Crazy Rich Asians, set in Singapore, the highest grossing romantic comedy of the decadeA Brief History of Singapore and Malaysia tells these and many other compelling stories about the people and events which have shaped these nations as they developed into modern powerhouses of international trade and...
Binding: Paperback;416 pages; Publisher: Tuttle Publishing; Classification: HBJF; Weight: 606 g; Dimensions: 134 x 203 x 35
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The fascinating account of two former British colonies with a shared past but vastly different identities today!Singapore and Malaysia sit astride the sea lanes linking East with Westvital choke points in the worlds commerce. Since ancient times, ports along the Silk Road of the Sea were populated by peoples from around the globe who came here to trade and live, carried by the steady flow of goods and the everpresent monsoon winds.Author Christopher Hale recounts many fascinating histories of this region, includingThe ancient international trade in spices and the seven voyages to the southern seas of the Chinese eunuch Admiral Zheng He in the 15th centuryThe rise of Islamic kingdoms along rivers bordering the Straits of Malacca and the conquest of Malacca, one of the worlds largest cities, by a few hundred Portuguese marauders in 1511The saga of Sir Stamford Raffles, credited with founding Singapore, and the development of tin mines and vast rubber and oil palm plantations on the Malay PeninsulaThe disastrous fall of "Fortress Singapore" to the Japanese in World War II after only three weeks of fighting, the worst British military defeat in historyThe wildly successful film Crazy Rich Asians, set in Singapore, the highest grossing romantic comedy of the decadeA Brief History of Singapore and Malaysia tells these and many other compelling stories about the people and events which have shaped these nations as they developed into modern powerhouses of international trade and...
Binding: Paperback;416 pages; Publisher: Tuttle Publishing; Classification: HBJF; Weight: 606 g; Dimensions: 134 x 203 x 35
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