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 ... - East and South-East Asian History)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 9/5/2013
EAN 9781108066044, ISBN10: 1108066046
Paperback, 866 pages, 29.7 x 21 x 4.3 cm
Language: English
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.
1. Early life of Mr Raffles - goes to Malacca
2. Calcutta - proposes expedition to Java
3. Account of the Eastern Islands
4. Lord Minto confides in Mr Raffles
5. Expedition to Palembang
6. Importance of connection between Java and China to the East India Company's policy
7. General Nightingall appointed to relieve General Gillespie
8. Malay civilization
9. Mr Raffles forced to return to England by ill health
10. Writes his history of Java
11. The interior of the country
12. Sir Stamford Raffles at Bencoolen
13. Hoists the British flag at Singapore
14. Sir Stamford returns to Bencoolen
15 Difficulties of altering established forms of government
16. Collections of natural history sent home
17. Sir Stamford forms an establishment on the island of Nias for the suppression of slavery
18. Arrival at Singapore
19. Arrival at Bencoolen
20. Sir Stamford lands at Plymouth
Letter from Dr Horsfield
Catalogue of zoological specimens
Prospectus of Zoological Society
Correspondence with Messrs Diard and Duvaucel
Appendix. The Eastern Isles and Singapore
Index.