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Victoria Glendinning - Raffles: The Man in His Moment

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Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826) was the charismatic and persuasive founder of Singapore and Governor of Java. An English adventurer, disobedient employee of the East India Company, utopian imperialist, linguist, zoologist and civil servant, he carved an extraordinary (though brief) life for himself in South East Asia. The tropical, disease-ridden settings of his story are as dramatic as his own trajectory - an obscure young man with no advantages other than talent and obsessive drive, who changed history by establishing - without authority - on the wretchedly unpromising island of Singapore, a settlement which has become a world city. After a turbulent time in the East Indies, Raffles returned to the UK and turned to his other great interests - botany and zoology. He founded London Zoo in 1826, the year of his death. Raffles remains a controversial figure, and in the first biography for over forty years, Victoria Glendinning charts his prodigious rise within...

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Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society

JMBRAS

Bijdragen tot de Tal- ,Lan- en Volenkunde

KITLV

Selected documents

sel. docs

Printed Books, including monographs

Date of first publication is given unless a later one is materially significant. Though many of these books have never been reprinted, some even the earliest and most obscure are available as downloads. Place of publication is not given since this is easily determined on the internet if required, as are any later editions with notes and/or introductions. In the endnotes I have given only short titles.

Adam, Ahmat (trs. and notes) The Letters of Sincerity: The Raffles Collection of Malay Letters (17801824) A Descriptive Account MBRAS monograph 2009

Alatas, Syed Hussein Thomas Stamford Raffles: Schemer or Reformer? 1971

Anderson, John Mission to the East Coast of Sumatra in 1823 under the Direction of the Government of Prince of Wales Island 1826

Acheen and the Ports in the North and East Coasts of Sumatra (1840) with intro by A.J.S. Reid 1971

Anson, A.E.H. About Myself and Others 1920

Barley, Nigel The Duke of Puddle Dock: In the Footsteps of Stamford Raffles 1991

(ed.) The Golden Sword: Stamford Raffles and the East 1999

Barrow, Sir John An Autobiographical Memoir of Sir John Barrow, Bart. Late of the Admiralty 1847

Bastin, John The Native Policies of Sir Stamford Raffles in Java and Sumatra: An Economic Interpretation 1957

The British in West Sumatra 16851965 (sel. docs) 1965

The Letters of Sir Stamford Raffles to Nathaniel Wallich JMBRAS reprint 1981

Olivia Mariamne Raffles (monograph) 2002

Sophia Raffles (monograph) 2002

Sir Stamford Raffless The History of Java: A Bibliographical Essay 2004

William Farquhar: First Resident and Commandant of Singapore (monograph) 2005

The Natural History Researches of Dr Thomas Horsfield (monograph) 2005

John Leyden and Thomas Stamford Raffles (monograph) 2006

(ed.) The Letters and Books of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles and Lady Raffles 2009

Bird, Isabella L. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither 1879

Blagden, C.O. (ed.) One Hundred Years of Singapore 1931

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Boulger, Demetrius Charles Life of Sir Stamford Raffles 1897

Buckley, C.B. An Anecdotal History of Olden Times in Singapore Vol. I 1902

Bute, Marchioness of (ed.) The Private Journals of the Marquess of Hastings 1858

Carey, Peter The British in Java 18111816: A Javanese Account. A text edition. English synopsis and commentary on BL Add Mss 12330 1992

Burgess, Anthony The Malayan Trilogy 2000

Chapman, Arnold A St Helena Whos Who; or, a Directory of the Island during the Captivity of Napoleon 1914

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Coldham, Peter Wilson Child Apprentices in America from Christs Hospital 16171778 1990

Collis, Maurice Raffles 1966

Conrad, Joseph The Shadow Line 1917

Cook, J.A., Bethune Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles Founder of Singapore 1819 and Some of his Friends and Contemporaries 1918

Cotton, Sir Evan (ed. Charles Fawcett) East Indiamen 1949

Coupland, Sir Reginald Raffles of Singapore 1897, 3rd edn. 1946

Crawfurd, John History of the Indian Archipelago. Containing an Account of the Manners, Arts, Languages, Religions, Institutions, and Commerce of its Inhabitants, with Maps and Engravings 3 vols 1820

Curzon, Lord British Government in India 1925

Dalley, Jan The Black Hole: Money, Myth and Empire 2006

Dalrymple, William The White Mughals 2002

Davidson, G.F. Trade and Travel in Far East 1900

Dempster, Charlotte L. Hawkins Memoirs of My Time 1920

Devenish, R.J. and C.H. McLaughlin Historical and Genealogical Record of the Devenish Families 1948

Devine, T.M. Scotlands Empire 16001815 2003

Dowden, Wilfred S. (ed.) The Letters of Thomas Moore 2 vols 1964

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Egerton, H.E. Sir Stamford Raffles: England in the Far East 1900

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Elliot, Sir George Memoir of the Honble Sir George Elliot, Written for his Children 1853

Evans, John The Gentleman Usher: The Life and Times of George Dempster (17321818) Member of Parliament and Laird of Dunnichen and Skibo 2005

Faulkner, Thomas The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Hammersmith 1839

Felton, Felix Thomas Love Peacock 1973

Fergusson, James (ed.) Letters of George Dempster to Sir Adam Fergusson 17561813 with Some Account of his Life 1934

Finlayson, George The Mission to Siam in the years 18212: from the Journal of the late George Finlayson, Esq., Surgeon and Naturalist to the Mission. With a Memoir and Introduction by Sir S. Raffles FRS 1825

Flower, Raymond Raffles: The Story of Singapore 1984

Gascoigne, John Joseph Banks and the English Enlightenment 1994

Geertz, Clifford The Religion of Java 1960

Gilmour, David The Ruling Class: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj 2005

Hahn, Emily Raffles of Singapore 1948

Hancock, T.H.H. Colemans Singapore 1986

Hare, Augustus J.C. The Life and Letters of Frances, Baroness Bunsen Vol. 1 1879, Vol. 2 1880

Harfield, Alan Bencoolen: The Christian Cemetery and the Fort Marlborough Monuments 1985

Harrison, Brian Holding the Fort: Melaka Under Two Flags 17951845 1985

Hibbert, Christopher George IV: Regent and King 18111830 1973

Hogendorp, Dirk van Berigt vanden Tegenswoordigen Toestand der Bataafsche Betzittingen in Oost-Indien 1799

Holmes, Richard The Age of Wonder 2008

Joukovsky, Nicholas A. (ed.) The Letters of Thomas Love Peacock Vol. 1 2001

Keay, John The Honourable Company 1991

Kelly, Ronan Bard of Erin: The Life of Thomas Moore 2008

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Knight, David Humphry Davy: Science and Power 1992

Kowner, R. Skin as Metaphor: Early Racial Views on Japan 15481853 2004

Le Breton, Anna Letitia Memoir of Mrs Barbauld 1874

Lewis, Samuel (ed.) A Topographical History of England 1831

Liu, Gretchen Singapore: A Pictorial History 18192000 1999

Lee, Kip Lin The Singapore House 18191942 1988

Mackenzie, W.C. Colonel Colin Mackenzie: First Surveyor-General of India 1952

Madden, Paul Raffles: Lessons in Business Leadership 2003

Marsden, William The History of Sumatra 3rd edn 1811

Matheson, Virginia and Barbara Watson (annotated trs.)

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