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Seven Hundred Years
Assessments of Singapore’s history invariably revolve around Sir Stamford Raffles’ arrival in 1819. Before this date – we’ve been told – “nothing very much appears to have happened …
Journal, Memorials and Letters of Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge
Admiral Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge, a Director in the Rotterdam chamber of the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) for three decades during the early 17th century, set sail from the …
Admiral Matelieff’s Singapore and Johor, 1606–1616
Few authors have as much to say about Singapore and Johor in the early 17th century as Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge (c.1570–1632). This admiral of the Dutch East India Company …
The Memoirs and Memorials of Jacques de Coutreeast Asia
Jacques de Coutre was a Flemish gem trader who spent nearly a decade in Southeast Asia at the turn of the 17th century. He left history a substantial autobiography written in …
Singapore and Melaka Straits
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 …
Hugo Grotius, the Portuguese, and Free Trade in the East Indies
In 1603, Dutch Admiral Jakob van Heemskerk plundered a Portuguese merchantman, the Santa Catarina, travelling from Macao to Melaka. The sale of the cargo at a public auction made …
The Memoirs and Memorials of Jacques de Coutre
A native of Bruges (now part of Belgium), Jacques de Coutre was a gem trader who spent nearly a decade in Southeast Asia in the early 17th century. In addition to a substantial …
Jacques De Coutre's Singapore and Johor 1594-c.1625
Studying Singapore Before 1800
Historians rely on Singapore’s strategic position to explain its great success as a royal trading port in the 14th century, and as a British colony after 1819. What, then, accounts …