What is it about?
This is a short maritime history of Singapore for the three centuries between the arrival of the Portuguese at Melaka and the founding of the British trading post on Singapore in 1819
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Why is it important?
This article brings together the most important testimonies on Singapore and its adjacent waters for the period under review
Perspectives
This article makes it clear that Singapore was everything but a forgotten place before the founding of the British trading post in 1819
Dr Peter Borschberg
National University of Singapore
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This page is a summary of: Singapore and its Straits, c.1500–1800, Indonesia and the Malay World, September 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/13639811.2017.1340493.
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