Literature on the History of South East Asia |
History of Johor | Aceh |
NARRATIVE . References : Online Secondary Sources . Online Primary Sources .
Bibliographic and Print Sources for the history up to 1511, see History of Malacca prior to 1511 for the history since 1824, see History of the Straits Settlements, History of Malaya, Historey of Malaysia see also Johor, V.O.C., E.I.C. |
The city of Melaka (Malacca) from c.1400 was the capital of the Islamic Sultanate of Malacca, and the leading trade center
on the Malacca Straits. In 1511 the city was conquered by the Portuguese; from 1511 onward the Sultans resided at
Bintang (Riau) or Johor. Portuguese Malacca (1511-1641) was administratively part of
Portuguese Asia,
with its capital at Goa. In 1641 the V.O.C., in alliance with Johor, conquered the city.
Malacca remained under V.O.C. administration until
1795. While Malacca was under British administration 1795-1802, the V.O.C. went bankrupt and the Batavian Republic
took over its assets and claims. From 1802 to 1803 briefly administered by the Batavian Republic, from 1803 to 1818
Malacca again was under British military administration, from 1818 to 1825 under Dutch administration (Malacca being
placed under the Dutch East Indies, capital Batavia). In 1824 the
Netherlands ceded Malacca to Britain. In 1826 Malacca became part of the Straits Settlements, together with Penang and Singapore; the Straits Settlements administratively were placed under Bengal Presidency of the E.I.C.. Timelines : Malacca Historical Atlas, Malaya Page , Straits Settlements Page List of Wars : Malayan Peninsula Students' Papers : Lee, Hye Jin, Maritime History : The South China Sea until the later 19th Century (2012) |
Country Profiles | Current |
Articles : Portuguese Malacca,
Dutch Malacca, from Wikipedia Article : Nederlands Malakka, from Wikipedia Dutch edition Portuguese Malacca 1511-1641, Dutch Malacca 1641-1795, 1818-1825, by Marco Ramerini |
Historic |
Bort, B., Report on Malacca, 1678, posted on Internet Archive |
Links | General |
on History |
Category : History of Malacca, from Wikipedia |
Historical Dictionary |
Timelines |
Search Google News Archive for Melaka, Malacca; click timeline |
Accounts of History | General |
History of Malacca, from Melaka.net, from
Melaka Travel Guide Thomas John Newbold, Political and statistical account of the British settlements in the Straits of Malacca, viz. Pinang, Malacca and Singapore, with a History of the Malayan States on the Peninsula of Malacca, vol.1, vol.2 1839, GB Peter James Begbie, The Malayan Peninsula: embracing its history, manners and customs of the inhabitants, politics, natural history &c., from its earliest Records, 1834, GB |
Specific Periods |
Arnold van Wickeren, Geschiedenis van Portugal en van de Portugezen overzee,
Deel 5 chapter 2 subch.2 :
De eerste Portugese expeditie naar Malacca.,
Deel 5 chapter 3 : Malacca,
Deel 5 chapter 6 subch.4 :
Opstand in en aanval op Malacca.,
Deel 6 chapter 7 subch.3 : Malacca,
Deel 10 chapter 3 subch.2 : Malacca
Deel 12, chapter 2 :
Portugees Malacca (1538-1558), in Dutch, posted on Colonial Voyage |
Administration |
D. Couto, The Role of Interpreters, or Linguas, in the
Portuguese Empire during the 16th Century, e-JPH, Vol. 1, number 2, Winter 2003, Sejarah Melayu Library |
Military |
Economy & Finances |
J. Anderson, Political and commercial considerations relative to the Malayan Penisula British Settlements in the Straits of Malaya (1824), posted on
Internet Archive |
Social History |
Ethnography |
Religion |
Institutions |
Culture |
Biographies |
Environmental History |
Indo-Malayan Ecoregion, from WWF |
Others |
Historical Data | Lists of Statesmen |
Malay States, from World Statesmen |
Documents | Image Databanks |
Archival Deposits |
Search Janus Search New Zealand Electronic Text Centre Digital Library Malaysia Search National Archives (UK) |
Laws |
Historiography |
Document Collections |
BGNMA : Tiele, Pieter Anton; Heeres, Jan Ernst (ed.), Bouwstoffen voor de geschiedenis der Nederlanders in den Maleischen Archipel
Pt.1, 1886 : Outer Possessions 1612-1624,
posted by Internet Archive, in Dutch; here English-language ToC;
Pt.2, 1890 (ONGOI 2 vol.2) : Outer Possessions 1624-1640,
posted by Aceh Books, in Dutch; here English-language ToC Heeres, J.E. (ed.), Pt.3 1895 (ONGOI 2 vol.3), Outer Possessions 1640-1649, posted by Internet Archive, here English-language ToC J.E. Heeres (ed.), Corpus Diplomaticum Neerlando-Indicum, Verzameling van politieke contracten en verdere Verdragen door de Nederlanders in het Oosten gesloten, van Privilegiebrieven aan hen verleend, enz., vol.1 1907, covering 1596-1650, posted on Internet Archive |
Historical Maps |
Maps, from Sejarah Melayu Gallery An atlas of the southern part of India, including plans of all the principal towns & cantonments, reduced from the grand trigonometrical survey of India, shewing also the Tenasserim provinces, 1854, posted on Internet Archive, has Malacca map |
Historical Encyclopedia Entries |
Secular |
Malacca, p.847 in vol.20 of D. Diderot,
Encyclopedie ou dictionnaire raisonne des sciences des arts et des metiers, 1780, in French, GB |
Religious |
Economic |
Malaca, p.172, in vol.2 of S. Ricard, Traite general du commerce,
1781, in French, GB Malacca, p.15 in Th. Brooks, An authentick account of all the different coins by which accompts in the East Indies are kept, 1766, GB Handel zu Malaca, pp.50-51, in : Friedrich Ludwig Langstedt, Geschichte des asiatischen Handels, 1803, in German, GB Malacca, pp.317-319 in vol.2 of William Milburn, Oriental commerce, 1813, GB Malacca, pp.461-462 in Th. Thornton, The East Indian Calculator, 1823, GB Malacca, pp.343-344 in Oriental commerce, or, The East India trader's complete guide, 1825, GB J. Chr. Nelkenbrecher, Allgemeines Taschenbuch der Münz-, Maass- und Gewichtskunde für Banquiers und Kaufleute (General Manual on Coinage, Measurement and Weights, for Bankers and Merchants) Berlin 1832, in German, entries Malakka, posted by DTBSWS |
Geographical |
Sian, pp.61-63 in : Nicholas Sanson, L'Europe
[l'Asie, l'Afrique, l'Amerique] en plusieurs cartes, 1683, in French, GB; reference on Malaca p.62 Malacca, pp.74-92 in A. Hamilton, A new account of the East Indies, 1744, GB Entry : Kingdom of Johor, pp.123-127 (despite the title, mainly on Malacca), in : T.G. Smollett, The Present State of the World, vol.7 1768, posted on Google Books Malacca, p.346 in Instruction sur la navigation des Indes-Orientales et de la Chine, 1775, in French, GB Malacca, in : vol.2 of N.M. de Morvillier, Encyclopedie Methodique: Geographie Moderne, 1784, in French, GB J.C.M.R., Korte Schets van den tegenwoordigen staat van het Half-Eiland beoosten de Ganges, pp.317-347 in : vol.4 of Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap der Kunsten en Weetenschappen, 1786, in Dutch, GB, on Malacca pp.322-343 J. Huddard, From Cape Rachado to Malacca, and Poolo Pinang, pp.370- in The oriental navigator, or, New directions for sailing to and from the East, 1801, GB Malacca, p.232 in J.H. Tuckey, Maritime geography and statistics , 1815, GB Entry : Malaya, or Malacca, pp.553-556 in : Jedediah Morse et al., The American Universal Geography, 1819, GB Malacca, pp.280-281 in vol.4 : Asia, of Giulio Ferrario, Il costume antico e moderno o storia del governo, della milizia, della religione, delle arti, scienze ed usanze di tutti i populi antichi ed moderni, 1824 |
Historical |
The Government of the Fortress and Territory of Malacca, pp.88-90 in
pt.2 vol.9 of G. Sale, An universal history, 1781, GB |
Parliamentary Debates |
Hansard (British Parliament) |
Tour Guides |
Travelogues |
Pedro Teixeira, The travels of Pedro Teixeira; with his "Kings of Harmuz"
and extracts from his "King of Persia" (reference on the Dutch/Johor siege of Malacca) (c.1601), trsl. by W.F. Sinclair 1902, GB Nederlandsche reizen: tot bevordering van den koophandel na de meest afgelegene gewesten des Aardkloots, vol.5 1784, in Dutch, GB |
Institutions | Archives |
Musea |
Malaysian Museums |
Monuments |
Libraries |
Official Symbols | Flags, Coats of Arms |
Coins, Banknotes |
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND PRINT SOURCES Bibliographies . Online Libraries . Thesis Servers . Online Journals . General Accounts . Specific Topics . Historical Dictionaries . Statistical Data . Yearbooks |
Bibliographies | general |
RHS Bibliography UK National Archive Online Library ISBN Database |
on Malacca |
Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (MBRAS) |
Online Libraries | general |
Internet Archives Gutenberg Library Online e-corpus |
on Malaysia |
Digital Library Malaysia Sejarah Melayu Library |
Thesis Server |
Open Access Theses and Dissertations Registry of Open Access Repositories, Malaysia Malaysian Theses Online |
Online Journals |
Directory of Open Access Journals Search Electronic Journals Online for Thailand Journal of Southeast Asian History 1960-1969, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 2009-, from Cambridge Journals Online (require registration) ASEAS (Austrian Journal of South East Asian Studies), open access, 2008- Asia Insights, from NIAS, 2002- Southeast Asian Studies 1963-, mostly in Japanese Explorations, 1997- Graduate Student Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, CSEAS, Univ. of Hawaii |
General Accounts | On Southeast Asia |
Nicholas Tarling, The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia, 4 vol.s, Cambridge : UP (1992) 1999, KMLA Lib.Sign. 959 T188c |
On Malaya / Malaysia |
Barbara Watson Andaya, Leonard V. Andaya, A History of Malaysia, Honolulu : Univ. of Hawai'i Press 2001, KMLA Lib.Sign. 959.5 A 543h Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th edition, Macropaedia, Vol.27, pp.745-755 Article Southeast Asia : Malaysia KMLA Lib.Sign. R 032 B862h v.27 |
Specific Topics |