Memoir of the life and public services of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles : particularly in the government of Java, 1811-1816 and of Bencoolen and its dependencies, 1817-1824
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Memoir of the life and public services of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles : particularly in the government of Java, 1811-1816 and of Bencoolen and its dependencies, 1817-1824
（Cambridge library collection）
Cambridge University Press, 2013
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Reprint. Originally published: London : John Murray, 1830
Includes index
"This edition first published 1830. This digitally printed version 2013"--T.p. verso
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内容説明
During his last voyage back to England, the ship of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826) caught fire, consuming many of the papers from which future biographers might have worked. When he died two years later, the task of sifting through the surviving materials and recording his life and career fell to his widow Sophia (1786-1858). Her substantial biography, first published in 1830, remains an essential source of information about one of the key figures of British colonialism in the East Indies. At the centre of the book, interspersed with many of her husband's letters, is Raffles' struggle against his Dutch opponents, with whom he clashed on ideological grounds - he noted with distaste their mistreatment of the local population and their advocacy of slavery. It was this rivalry which convinced Raffles to found Singapore as a trading post. His two-volume History of Java (1817) is also reissued in this series.
目次
- 1. Early life of Mr Raffles - goes to Malacca
- 2. Calcutta - proposes expedition to Java
- 3. Account of the Eastern Islands
- 4. Lord Minto confides in Mr Raffles
- 5. Expedition to Palembang
- 6. Importance of connection between Java and China to the East India Company's policy
- 7. General Nightingall appointed to relieve General Gillespie
- 8. Malay civilization
- 9. Mr Raffles forced to return to England by ill health
- 10. Writes his history of Java
- 11. The interior of the country
- 12. Sir Stamford Raffles at Bencoolen
- 13. Hoists the British flag at Singapore
- 14. Sir Stamford returns to Bencoolen
- 15 Difficulties of altering established forms of government
- 16. Collections of natural history sent home
- 17. Sir Stamford forms an establishment on the island of Nias for the suppression of slavery
- 18. Arrival at Singapore
- 19. Arrival at Bencoolen
- 20. Sir Stamford lands at Plymouth
- Letter from Dr Horsfield
- Catalogue of zoological specimens
- Prospectus of Zoological Society
- Correspondence with Messrs Diard and Duvaucel
- Appendix. The Eastern Isles and Singapore
- Index.
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