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SG101 Heritage: The Singapore and Melaka Straits by Peter Borschberg

, 28 January 2010 -- Saturday, 6 February 2010 2.30pm – 6.00pm
The POD, Level 16
National Library Building
100 Victoria Street

The first half of the 17th century brought heightened political, commercial and diplomatic activity to the Straits of Singapore and Melaka. Key elements included rivalry between Johor and Aceh, the rapid expansion of the Acehnese Empire, the arrival of the Dutch East India Company, and the waning of Portuguese power and prestige across the region. Archives in Portugal, Spain and the Netherlands contain detailed information on these developments in the forms of maps, rare printed works, and unpublished manuscripts, many of them unfamiliar to modern researchers.

The Singapore and Melaka Straits draws on these materials to examine early modern European cartography as a projection of Western power, treaty and alliance making, trade relations, and the struggle for naval hegemony in the Singapore and Melaka Straits.The book provides an unprecedented look at the diplomatic activities of Asian powers in the region, and also shows how the Spanish and the Portuguese attempted to restore their political fortunes by containing the rapid rise of Dutch power. The appendices provide copies of key documents, transcribed and translated into English for the first time.

Due to limited seats, registration is required and can be made via http://golibrary.nlb.gov.sg and surf on to 'SG 101'.

About the Speaker:
Associate Professor Peter Borschberg BA (Hons)(Kent); PhD (Cambridge), is Associate Professor in theDepartment of History at the National University of Singapore. His research interests covers that of SoutheastAsia in the early modern period as well as legal history.

Organised By: Singapore Heritage Society
Supported By: National Library Singapore

Visit http://golibrary.nlb.gov.sg for more programmes and exhibitions.



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Submitted by National Library Marketing, National Library Singapore on Thursday, 28 January 2010 at 3:52 PM
Category: Education
 
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