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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.
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| 著者・編者 | Raffles, Sophia, |
|---|---|
| シリーズ | (Cambridge Library Collection - East and South-East Asian History) |
| 出版社 | (Cambridge University Press, UK) |
| 出版年月 | 2013 |
| ページ数 | 866 pp. |
| 言語 | ENG |
| ニュース番号 | ＜A03-18928＞ |
解説
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.