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The memoirs and memorials of Jacques de Coutre : security, trade and society in 16th and 17th-Century Southeast Asia / [Jacques de Coutre] ; edited with introduction by Peter Borschberg; translated by Roopanjali Roy.
- Title
- The memoirs and memorials of Jacques de Coutre : security, trade and society in 16th and 17th-Century Southeast Asia / [Jacques de Coutre] ; edited with introduction by Peter Borschberg; translated by Roopanjali Roy.
- Author
- Coutre, Jacques de, 1572-1640
- Publication
- Singapore : NUS Press, [2014]
- ©2014.
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- Description
- xxviii, 453 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 26 cm
- Summary
- Jacques de Coutre was a Flemish gem trader who spent nearly a decade in Southeast Asia at the turn of the 17th century. He left history a substantial autobiography written in Spanish and preserved in the National Library of Spain in Madrid. Written in the form of a picaresque tale, with an acute eye for the cultures he encountered, the memoirs tell the story of his adventures in the trading centres of the day: Melaka, Ayutthaya, Patani, Pahang, Johor, Brunei and Manila. Narrowly escaping death several times, De Coutre was inevitably drawn into dangerous intrigues between the representatives of European power, myriad fortune hunters and schemers, and the rulers and courtiers in the palaces of Pahang, Patani, Siam and Johor.0In addition to his autobiography, De Coutre wrote a series of memorials to the united crown of Spain and Portugal that contain recommendations designed to remedy the decline in the fortunes of the Iberian powers in Southeast Asia, particularly against the backdrop of early Dutch political and commercial penetration into the region.
- Subject
- Coutre, Jacques de, 1572-1640 > Travel > Asia
- Johor (Malaysia) > History
- Asia > Description and travel > Early works to 1800
- Malacca (Malacca, Malaysia) > History
- Singapore > History > 16th century
- Singapore > History > 17th century
- Malacca, Strait of > History > 16th century
- Malacca, Strait of > History > 17th century
- Southeast Asia > History > 16th century
- Southeast Asia > History > 17th century
- Genre/Form
- Early works.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical reference (pages 386-400) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9789971697839 (case)
- 9971697831 (case)
- 9789971695286 (paperback)
- 9971695286 (paperback)
- OCLC
- 847505492
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library