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The Memoirs and Memorials of Jacques de Coutre: Security, Trade and Society in 16th- and 17th-century Southeast Asia
Jacques de Coutre
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Hardcover. This book provides a valuable first hand account of the issues confronting the early colonial powers and deep insights into the societies de Coutre encountered. Editor(s): Borschberg, Peter. Translator(s): Roy, Roopanjali. Num Pages: 488 pages, 62 maps and drawings. BIC Classification: HBLH; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 179. .
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 Spanish and preserved in the National Library of Spain in Madrid. Written in the form of a picaresque tale, with an acute eye for the cultures he encountered, the memoirs tell the story of his adventures in the trading centres of the day: Melaka, Ayutthaya, Patani, Pahang, Johor, Brunei and Manila. Narrowly escaping death several times, De Coutre was inevitably drawn into dangerous intrigues between the representatives of European ... Read more
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 Spanish and preserved in the National Library of Spain in Madrid. Written in the form of a picaresque tale, with an acute eye for the cultures he encountered, the memoirs tell the story of his adventures in the trading centres of the day: Melaka, Ayutthaya, Patani, Pahang, Johor, Brunei and Manila. Narrowly escaping death several times, De Coutre was inevitably drawn into dangerous intrigues between the representatives of European ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
NUS Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
488
Place of Publication
Singapore, Singapore
ISBN
9789971697839
SKU
V9789971697839
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About Jacques de Coutre
Peter Borschberg is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore. Roopanjali Roy is an independent translator living in Lisbon, Portugal.
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