This book traces the development of Singapore from 1819, when the English East India Company established a trading settlement on the island.

History of Singapore

C.M. Turnbull

OUP South East Asia

Dance and Drama in Bali

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

First published in 1931, this novel of scandal among the Dutch rubber-planters in Sumatra shocked European society.

Rubber the 1930's Novel About Planters Which Shocked European Society

Madelon H. Lulofs

Science & Math

The History of Java: Complete Text (Oxford in Asia hardback reprints)

History

Raffles, Sir Stamford

Asia

The Chersonese with the Gilding Off is usually described as a companion volume to Isabella Bird's better-known The Golden Chersonese , published in 1883 and also available as an Oxford Paperback. Starkly written and with a wry sense of humour, it is vastly different to Isabella Bird's rather idyllic account. Seeing the Malayan country `under totally different circumstances', Innes's describes her lonely and uncomfortable life as the wife of a minor government official, and her reluctant participation in the pettiness of colonial society, and in the life of the kampung around her.

The Chersonese with the Gilding Off (Oxford in Asia Paperbacks)

Innes, Emily

For centuries Penang was part of the Muslim state of Kedah, but after the intervention in 1786 of a `forgotten' English trader, Captain Francis Light, it became a British mercantile and shipping outpost, administered as part of British India and renamed Prince of Wales Island. From this first toehold in the Strait of Malacca, British power and influence eventually spread to the entire Malayan Peninsula, as well as to Singapore and parts of Borneo. Old Penang tells how Francis Light, using economic inventiveness, attracted peoples from all over the region so that the first settlement in the Strait quickly became a place where `so many people are assembled together and so great a variety of langauges are spoken in so small a space'. This cosmopolitan flavour, combined with natural scenic beauty, made Penang a favourite port of call fpr travellers on the long voyage from Europe to the Fare East. Using broad brush strokes as well as punctilious details, the author has painted a historical portrait of old Penang: its communities, its growing pains, its principal personalities, and its chief attractions. Beginning with James Wathen in 1811, there is also a gallery of travelling artists whose works have been included among the paintings and drawings that illustrate the text.

Old Penang (Images of Asia)

Hoyt, Sarnia Hayes

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