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Raffles and the British Invasion of Java

Raffles and the British Invasion of Java

by Tim Hannigan
Paperback
Publication Date: 31/01/2013
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On a hot August afternoon in 1811, an army of 10,000 British redcoats splashed ashore through the muddy shallows off Batavia (the former name of Jakarta, Indonesia's capital) to conquer the Dutch colony of Java. They would remain there for five turbulent years. Drawing on both British and Javanese archival sources, this entertaining and highly readable 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 - long celebrated as a hero, a liberal and a visionary - in a shocking new light, showing how he crushed dissent, looted palaces and incited massacres to further his own insatiable ambitions. The book features the dramatic Battle of Batavia, the sinister British expedition to Palembang, the 1812 sacking and looting of Yogyakarta, and various fights between soldiers and civilians, buffaloes and tigers, and Englishmen and Javanese.
ISBN:
9789814358859
9789814358859
Category:
Biography: historical
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
31-01-2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
Monsoon Books
Country of origin:
Singapore
Pages:
368
Dimensions (mm):
199x126x27mm
Weight:
0.35kg
Tim Hannigan

Tim Hannigan's first book Murder in the Hindu Kush was shortlisted for the Boardman-Tasker Prize.

His second book Raffles and the British Invasion of Java won the 2013 John Brooks Award. His features and travel articles appear regularly in newspapers and magazines in Indonesia and beyond.

He has also authored A Brief History of Indonesia and edited A Brief History of Bali.

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