Trade and Society in the Straits of Melaka: Dutch Melaka and English Penang, 1780-1830
By Nordin Hussin.
Description
This pioneering work from a member of Malaysia's new generation of historians is a tale of two different cities, the one with a trading heritage dating back centuries, the other a new creation spawned by the declining fortunes of the once mighty Dutch East India Company. Melaka was an important commercial entrepot on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula long before it fell to Portuguese forces in 1511, but thereafter began an extended process of declining that would continue after the Dutch conquest of the city in 1641. Penang became a significant port after 1786 when 'country tr...
ISBN(s)
9971693542, 9789971693541
