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Book The Straits of Malacca

Download or read book The Straits of Malacca written by Hamzah Ahmad and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Singapore and Melaka Straits

Download or read book The Singapore and Melaka Straits written by Peter Borschberg and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Singapore and Melaka Straits are a place where regional and long-distance maritime trading networks converge, linking Europe, the Mediterranean, eastern Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and the Indian subcontinent with key centres of trade in Thailand, Indochina, insular Southeast Asia, China, Korea and Japan. The first half of the 17th century brought heightened political, commercial and diplomatic activity to this region. It had long been clear to both the Portuguese and the Dutch that whoever controlled the waters off modern Singapore gained a firm grip on regional as well as long-distance intra-Asian trade. By the early 1600s Portuguese power and prestige were waning and the arrival of the Dutch East India Company constituted a major threat. Moreover, the rapid expansion and growing power of the Acehnese Empire, and rivalry between Johor and Aceh, was creating a new context for European trade in Asia.

Book Pirates of Empire

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  • Author : Stefan Eklöf Amirell
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2019-08-29
  • ISBN : 1108484212
  • Pages : 277 pages

Download or read book Pirates of Empire written by Stefan Eklöf Amirell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Straits of Malacca and Singapore

Download or read book Straits of Malacca and Singapore written by A. S. Bashford and published by Hyperion Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Malacca  Singapore  and Indonesia

Download or read book Malacca Singapore and Indonesia written by Michael Leifer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Iberians in the Singapore Melaka Area and Adjacent Regions  16th to 18th Century

Download or read book Iberians in the Singapore Melaka Area and Adjacent Regions 16th to 18th Century written by Peter Borschberg and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2004 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at a colloquium, "The Iberian powers in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore, and in Southeast Asia," held in Singapore, May 13-14 2002, organized by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore.

Book The Portuguese and the Straits of Melaka  1575 1619

Download or read book The Portuguese and the Straits of Melaka 1575 1619 written by Paulo Jorge De Sousa Pinto and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Malacca Strait Pilot

Download or read book Malacca Strait Pilot written by Great Britain. Hydrographic Department and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Acts of Piracy in the Malacca and Singapore Straits

Download or read book Acts of Piracy in the Malacca and Singapore Straits written by Robert C. Beckman and published by IBRU. This book was released on 1994 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Trade and Society in the Straits of Melaka

Download or read book Trade and Society in the Straits of Melaka written by Nordin Hussin and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study compares Melaka and Penang in the context of overall trends - policy, geographical position, nature and direction of trade, and morphology and sociology - and how these factors were influenced by trade and policies. Conclusions are drawn concerning where and how Melaka and Penang fit in the urban traditions of Southeast Asia and the significance of the fact that the period under study coincided with the shift from the height of the "Age of Commerce" towards a period of heightened imperialist activities.

Book Piracy  Maritime Terrorism and Securing the Malacca Straits

Download or read book Piracy Maritime Terrorism and Securing the Malacca Straits written by Graham Gerard Ong-Webb and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2006-11-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maritime piracy continues to persist as a significant phenomenon manifesting a range of social, historical, geo-political, security and economic issues. Today, the waters of Southeast Asia serve as the dominant region for the occurrence of piracy and the challenges it poses to regional security and Malacca Straits security. As a second installment within the Series on Maritime Issues and Piracy in Asia by the International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden University, and the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, the authors of this volume add fresh perspectives to the ongoing debate about piracy, the threat of maritime terrorism, and the challenge of securing the Malacca Straits today.

Book Straits of Malacca

Download or read book Straits of Malacca written by Donald B. Freeman and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2003 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries the Straits of Malacca, a narrow waterway between the Malay peninsula and the island of Sumatra, has been both a major conduit for long distance trade between Asia and the West and one of the most dangerous areas for commercial shipping. Casting a broad net across several disciplines, particularly geography and political economy, Donald Freeman examines the significance of the Straits as both a trade gateway and a choke-point that has forced generations of sailors to run the gauntlet. Rather than the more conventional historical-narrative approach, he offers an innovative adoption of an interdisciplinary, analytical perspective through his use of detailed case studies of trading systems and shipping hazards.

Book Blue Book for the Year

Download or read book Blue Book for the Year written by Straits Settlements and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Business and Economics of Port Management

Download or read book Business and Economics of Port Management written by Wei Yim Yap and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business and Economics of Port Management is a comprehensive but concise textbook and reference for insights into the workings of port industry from the business and economics perspectives. The book examines port management from various entities which include the government, port operator, shipping line, logistics companies and other port service providers. It provides in-depth discussions on strategic issues, challenges and disruptions that are faced by this industry. Given the uniqueness of each port and international nature of the port business, the book comes with useful case studies and lessons from different port regions around the world. Key lessons on challenges and issues faced by port managers, developers and regulators are highlighted and discussed using a combination of professional insights and publicly available information sources. The aim is to illustrate the decision-making process with the purpose of contributing to better outcomes for the industry, government and the public at large. Anyone who is approaching the subject matter will gain utmost understanding of how ports are critical in the global economy and societal well-being.

Book Passage Planning Guide

Download or read book Passage Planning Guide written by Witherby Seamanship International Ltd and published by . This book was released on 2010-12-31 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers guidance and practical advice for ships transiting Malacca and Singapore straits. Based on the experience of ship masters transiting the Straits, this title provides navigators advice and intuitive format which complements traditional passage planning techniques and modern electronic chart navigation.

Book To Rule the Waves

Download or read book To Rule the Waves written by Bruce Jones and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a brilliant Brookings Institution expert, an “important” (The Wall Street Journal) and “penetrating historical and political study” (Nature) of the critical role that oceans play in the daily struggle for global power, in the bestselling tradition of Robert Kaplan’s The Revenge of Geography. For centuries, oceans were the chessboard on which empires battled for supremacy. But in the nuclear age, air power and missile systems dominated our worries about security, and for the United States, the economy was largely driven by domestic production, with trucking and railways that crisscrossed the continent serving as the primary modes of commercial transit. All that has changed, as nine-tenths of global commerce and the bulk of energy trade is today linked to sea-based flows. A brightly painted forty-foot steel shipping container loaded in Asia with twenty tons of goods may arrive literally anywhere else in the world; how that really happens and who actually profits from it show that the struggle for power on the seas is a critical issue today. Now, in vivid, closely observed prose, Bruce Jones conducts us on a fascinating voyage through the great modern ports and naval bases—from the vast container ports of Hong Kong and Shanghai to the vital naval base of the American Seventh Fleet in Hawaii to the sophisticated security arrangements in the Port of New York. Along the way, the book illustrates how global commerce works, that we are amidst a global naval arms race, and why the oceans are so crucial to America’s standing going forward. As Jones reveals, the three great geopolitical struggles of our time—for military power, for economic dominance, and over our changing climate—are playing out atop, within, and below the world’s oceans. The essential question, he shows, is this: who will rule the waves and set the terms of the world to come?