Raffles And The British Invasion Of Java

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Monsoon Books
Publisher Place: Singapore
Publisher Year: 2012
Edition: First Edition

Description: 380 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. A Controversial Reassessment Of Raffles...questions Our Comfortable Assumptions About The 'founder Of Singapore'.

Publishers Description: In 1811, an army of 10,000 British redcoats splashed ashore through the muddy shallows off Batavia (now Jakarta) to conquer the Dutch colony of Java. They would remain there for five turbulent years. Drawing on both British and Javanese archival sources, this narrative history-cum-biography explores the bloody battles and furious controversies that marked British rule in Java, and reveals the future founder of Singapore, Thomas Stamford Raffles in a shocking new light.

ISBN: 9789814358859