Different Perspectives on the Resistance of a Malay State Mempawah 1787-1808

Miller, George

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Different Perspectives on the Resistance of a Malay State Mempawah 1787-1808

Date

2013

Authors

Miller, George

Publisher

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract

A variety of sources may be consulted to examine a period of changing political and economic status in the west Borneo state of Mempawah between 1787 and 1808. These sources include traditional Malay histories, 19th-century Dutch accounts of events, 18th-