Raffles and Hastings : private exchanges behind the founding of Singapore / / John Bastin

• Autore: Bastin John
• Pubblicazione: Singapore : , : Marshall Cavendish Editions, , [2014]; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (478 p.)
• Disciplina: 959.57030922
• Soggetto geografico: Singapore History
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Letters; Note on the Letters; Preface; I: Beginnings of the Relationship; II: Raffles's Expansionist Policies in Sumatra; III: Hastings Favours the Southern Melaka Straits; IV: Mission to the Eastward; V: Establishment of a British Station at Singapore; VI: Raffles's Official Account of the Founding of Singapore; VII: Raffles's Private Reports on the Founding of Singapore; VIII: Rapid Progress of the Settlement; IX: Raffles as a "Political Agent" in the Malay Archipelago ; X: Proposal for the Amalgamation of Pinang, Singapore and BengkuluXI: Raffles and Singapore; XII: The Resident of Singapore; XIII: Final Exchanges and Hastings's Death; Appendices: Additional Letters of Raffles; Notes; Sources; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The founding of Singapore has typically been attributed to the strategic genius of one man, Stamford Raffles. Frequently overlooked is the part played by his superior in the East India Company, the Marquess of Hastings. It was Hastings who, as Governor-General of India, made the fateful decision to establish a British trading post at the southern entrance of the Malacca Straits, and once this was executed with great daring by Raffles in early 1819, it was Hastings again who supported the retention of Singapore against opposition from all quarters. This book provides an intimate account of Sing
• Titolo autorizzato: Raffles and Hastings
• ISBN: 981-4634-78-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910157605903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II