1819 & Before: Singapore's Pasts by Kwa Chong Guan HARDBACK 9789814951111

1819 & Before: Singapore's Pasts\nby Kwa Chong Guan\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Kwa Chong Guan\nTitle: 1819 & Before: Singapore's Pasts\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Asian history\nPublisher: ISEAS\nPublication year: 2021\nISBN-13: 9789814951111\nISBN-10: 9814951110\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThe essays published here began as a series of lectures commemorating the bicentennial of Thomas Stamford Raffles's establishment of a British Station in 1819. The essays draw on thirty-five years of archaeological investigations on and around Fort Canning, new readings of the Malay Annals, early Chinese records reporting Singapore, and the Portuguese and Dutch records to probe and challenge our understanding of Singapore's history before Raffles. Altogether, these e.