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Literature on the History of South East Asia
History of Malaysia Perak
First posted on December 25th 2004, last revised on December 17th 2013






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see also Federated Malay States, History of Malaya, History of Malaysia


The Sultanate of Selangor was established in 1740. Selangor as a port is mentioned in sources from the 18th century onward. In 1874 Selangor became a British protectorate; in 1895 it joined the Federated Malay States; after the years of Japanese occupation 1942-1945 in 1946 Selangor joined the Federation of Malaya (1946-1963), in 1963 Malaysia. The capital of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, is located on historical Selangor territory.

Alternative spellings : Salangore, Salangor, Salengore, Selangor

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Country Profiles . Links . Organizations . Accounts of History . Politics . Military History . Economic History . Social History . Ethnography
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Country Profiles Current from Wikipedia; from Virtual Malaysia
Historical J. Anderson, Political and commercial considerations relative to the Malayan Penisula British Settlements in the Straits of Malaya (1824), IA
Salangore, pp.27-40 in Th.J. Newbold, Political and statistical account of the British settlements in the Straits viz. Pinang, Singapore and Malacca with a History of the Malayan States on the Peninsula of Malacca vol.2, 1839, GB
Links General Category : Selangor, from Wikipedia
on History Category : History of Selangor, from Wikipedia
Organizations on Asian History International Association of Historians of Asia (IAHA)
on SE Asian History Japan Society for Southeast Asian Studies (JSSEAS)
The International Center for East Asian Archaeology and Cultural History (ICEAACH)
Finnish University Network for East and Southeast Asian Studies
on Malaysia History Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (MBRAS)
Historical Dictionary N.B. Dennys, A Descriptive Dictionary of British Malaya (1894), posted on Internet Archive
Timelines Search Google News Archive for Selangor; click timeline
Accounts of History Article Selangor : History, from Wikipedia; from Selangor Travel Guide; History of Selangor, from My Far East; History of Selangor, from Christopher Buyers
Selangor Sultanate, from Melayu Online
F.A. Swettenham, British Malaya: An Account of the Origin and Progress of British Influence in Malaya (1907), posted on Internet Archive
P.J. Begbie, The Malayan Peninsula embracing its history, manners and customs of the .., 1834, GB
Historiography
Politics
Military The Selangor Civil ar, from Sejarah Melayu
Selangor : Orders and Decorations, by Christopher Buyers
Economy & Finances Harold Brookfield, Lesley Potter, and Yvonne Byron In Place of the Forest : Environmental and Socio-economic Transformation in Borneo and the Eastern Malay Peninsula, UNU 1995
Social History
Ethnography P.E.L. Favre, An account of the wild tribes inhabiting the Malayan Peninsula, Sumatra, and a few neighbouring islands : with A journey in Johore and A journey in the Menangkabaw states of the Malayan Peninsula; (1865), posted on Internet Archive
W.W. Skeat, Sakei tribes in Selangor (1890), posted on Internet Archive
Religion
History of Regions History of the Riau Archipelago, from Indonesia Tourism; Article Riau Islands : History, from Wikipedia; Riau-Lingga Sultanate, from Melayu Online
Local History Article : History of Kuala Lumpur, from Wikipedia
History of Kuala Lumpur, from Sawadee
Kuala Lumpur History Guide
Institutions
Culture
Biographies
Environmental History Indo-Malayan Ecoregion, from WWF
Others History of the State Anthems of Malaysia, by Michael Jamison Bristow

WEB-BIBLIOGRAPHY . . . EXTERNALLY POSTED PRIMARY SOURCES
Historical Data . Statistical Data . Documents Newspapers . Yearbooks . Image Databanks . Archival Deposits . Laws . Historiography
Document Collections . Historical Maps . Historical Encyclopedia Articles . Travelogues . Institutions . National Symbols
Historical Data Lists of Statesmen Malay States, from World Statesmen
Genealogical Gleanings : Selangor
Statistical Data Population Figures Malaysia, Historical Population Statistics by Province, from Population Statistics, by J. Lahmeyer
Documents Historical Newspapers Sept. 1785 : Salangore, in Mercurio historico y politico, 1785, in Spanish, GB
Image Databanks Wikimedia Commons
Postcards, from Sejarah Melayu Gallery
Locomotives of the Malayan Railway, by Tim Light
Archival Deposits Search Janus
Search ARCHIEVEN.NL
Search New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
Digital Library Malaysia
Search National Archives (UK)
Laws Malaysian Legislation Database (1914-)
Digital Library Malaysia, click "Parliament"
The laws of the Federated Malay States, 1877-1920 vol.1 (1921), vol.2 (1921), vol.3 (1921), posted on Internet Archive
Treaties Treaty with Salangore, 23 Aug 1818, p.476 in Th.J. Newbold, Political and statistical account of the British settlements in the Straits viz. Pinang, Singapore and Malacca with a History of the Malayan States on the Peninsula of Malacca vol.1, 1839, GB
Salengore pp.273-277 in vol.1 of A collection of treaties, engagements, and sunnuds, relating to India and Neighbouring Countries, 1862, GB
Historiography
Document Collections
Historical Maps Search Atlas of Mutual Heritage for Fort Altingburg, Salangoor
Historical
Encyclopedia Entries
Secular Article Malay States (British), from EB 1911
Article Selangor, from Meyers Konversationslexikon 1885-1892, in German, posted by Retro Bibliothek
Article Selangor, from Meyers Konversationslexikon 1902-1908, in German, posted by Zeno
Religious
Economic Salangore, p.14 in Th. Brooks, An authentick account of all the different coins by which accompts in the East Indies are kept, 1766, GB
Salangore, p.316 in vol.2 of W. Milburn, Oriental Commerce, 1813, GB
Salangore, p.483 in Th. Thornton, The East Indian Calculator, 1823, GB
Salangore, pp.342-343 in Oriental commerce, or, The East India trader's complete guide, 1825, GB
Salangore, p.115 in P. Kelly, The Universal Cambist and Commercial Instructor, 1835, GB
Geographical Salangore and Parsalore, p.74 in A. Hamilton, A new account of the East Indies, 1744, GB
Salangor, p.386 in
Instruction sur la navigation des Indes-Orientales et de la Chine
, 1775, in French, GB
J. Huddard, Instructions for Sailing into Salangore Road, Colong Straits etc., pp.339- in The oriental navigator, or, New directions for sailing to and from the East, 1801, GB
W. Herbert, Instructions for Sailing into Salangore Road, Colong Straits etc., pp.498- in A new nautical directory for the East-India and China navigation , 1804, GB
Salangore, p.232 in J.H. Tuckey, Maritime geography and statistics , 1815, GB
Salengore p.493 in vol.1 of W. Hamilton, The East Indian gazetteer , 1828, GB
Das Territorium von Salangore, pp.29-30 in vol.5 of C. Ritter, Die Erdkunde von Asien, 1835, in German, GB
E.G. Balfour, The cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, commercial, industrial, and scientific; products of the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms, useful arts and manufactures (1885), vol.1, vol.2, vol.3, posted on Internet Archive; search for Selangor
Selangor, pp.487-499 in vol.8 of E. Reclus, Universal Geography, n.d. [1876-1894], IA
Historical
Other Article : Malaische Schutzstaaten, from Röll, Enzyklopädie des Eisenbahnwesens (Encyclopedia of Railroads) 2nd ed. 1912-1923, in German, posted by Zeno
Parliamentary Debates Hansard (British Parliament)
Tour Guides
Travelogues
Residence Memoirts etc.
Institutions Archives National Archives of Malaysia
Musea Lists, Links Malaysian Museums
Musea Museum Websites
Monuments
Libraries
National Symbols Flags, Coats of Arms Flag of Selangor, from FOTW
Coins, Banknotes Coin Catalog of Selangor, from Numismaticon; Search Coin Archives for Selangor
Currencies of Pahang, Perak and Selangor, from History of Money in Malaysia

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RHS Bibliography
UK National Archive Online Library
ISBN Database
on Selangor Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (MBRAS)
Online Libraries general Internet Archives
Gutenberg Library Online
e-corpus
Search New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
Search DBNG
Search Leiden University Repository (NL, Open Access)
on SE Asia South East Asia Digital Library (project)
South East Asia Visions, at Cornell
ISEAS Working Papers, Back Issues 2000-2003
on Malaysia Digital Library Malaysia
Sejarah Melayu Library
Thesis Server Open Access Theses and Dissertations
South East Asian Studies, Student Theses, from Ohio University
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Online Journals Guides Directory of Open Access Journals
Electronic Journals Online
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Specific Topics
Historical Atlas HASEA : Jan M. Pluvier, Historical Atlas of South-East Asia, Leiden : Brill 1995 [G]
Siam, the Malay States and Britain, 15th to 20th Centuries, pp.247-253 in : G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville, Historical Atlas of Islam, NY : Continuum (1991) 2003 [G]
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Article : Selangor, in : New International Year Book 1913 p.624 [G]








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