Piracy and surreptitious activities in the Malay Archipelago and adjacent seas, 1600-1840

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Studying Piracy and Surreptitious Activities in Southeast Asia in the Early Modern Period

   • Y. H. Teddy Sim

   Pages 1-17

3. Siak, Piracy and Early Modern Malay Warfare

   • Timothy P. Barnard

   Pages 19-34

4. From Self-Defence to an Instrument of War: Dutch Privateering Around the Malay Peninsula in the Early Seventeenth Century

   • Peter Borschberg

   Pages 35-50

5. Violence and Piratical/Surreptitious Activities Associated with the Chinese Communities in the Melaka–Singapore Region (1780–1840)

   • Sandy J. C. Liu

   Pages 51-76

6. War-Making, Raiding, Slave Hunting and Piracy in the Malukan Archipelago

   • Manuel Lobato

   Pages 77-103

7. An Exploration into the Political Background of the Maguindanao ‘Piracy’ in the Early Eighteenth Century

   • Ariel Cusi Lopez

   Pages 105-120

8. Revisiting the Political Economy and Ethnicity of the Sulu Sultanate and Its Entanglement with the Seafaring World

   • Chung Ming Chin

   Pages 121-139

9. Iberians in the Adjacent Seas: A Survey of Their Piratical and Smuggling Activities in Relation to War and the Political Economy of the South China Sea

   • Y. H. Teddy Sim

   Pages 141-162

10. The Portuguese in the Adjacent Seas: A Survey of Their Identities and Activities in the Eastern Indian Ocean/Burman Sea

    • Y. H. Teddy Sim

    Pages 163-177

11. Back Matter

    Pages 179-189

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This edited work explores piracy and surreptitious activities such as privateering, war-making, slave-hunting and raiding, focussing on Southeast Asia in the early modern period. Readers will discover nine essays studying the different sub-regions of the Malay Archipelago and adjacent seas and exploring the nature and historiographical perception of piracy, maritime conflict and surreptitious activities. The authors probe the linkages between these occurrences with war and economy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in particular, and look at the transition into the nineteenth century.

The introduction covers the study of piracy in this period and chapters explore themes of Siak and Malay activities, Dutch privateering, Chinese actions in the Melaka-Singapore region, activity in the Malukan Archipelago and the political background of the Maguindanao “piracy” in the early eighteenth century. Later chapters explore the Sulu Sultanate and the seafaring world, the deeds of Iberians in this region and especially the identities and activities of the Portuguese in these seas.

The authors contribute to the literature by complementing studies that favour a closer discussion of the ‘formal’ and ‘informal’ sectors in history. This book opens up the subject area for delving into the various geographical locales and participating groups, as well as their possible linkages with one another and with other groups.

This volume will be of interest to students and academicians of Southeast Asian studies and those with a general interest in maritime piracy.

• Burma Sea
• Dutch privateering in the Malay Peninsula
• Iberian piracy in the South China Sea
• Malay Archipelago
• Piracy in Southeast Asia
• Political economy and piratical activities in Mindanao
• Political economy of the Sulu Sultanate
• Portuguese in eastern Indian Ocean and Burman sea
• Smuggling in Southeast Asia
• South China Sea
• Surreptitious Activities in Southeast Asia
• Violence among the Chinese in the Singapore-Melaka
• War Making and Piracy in Siak
• war-making and piracy in Timor and Maluku

• Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

  Y.H. Teddy Sim

Dr Sim is currently lecturing at an institute in the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He has published on the Portuguese in the East / Far East in the eighteenth century. He is the author of Portuguese Enterprise in the East: Survival in the Years 1707-57. On the trade activities and network in the East, Dr Sim is also interested in the other groups operating in the region, most notably the diaspora Chinese, during the 18th and 19th centuries.

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