The Historian, June 22nd, 1994
This is a delightfully old-fashioned little volume, with glossy cardboard covers and maps of Southeast Asia and Malacca along with twenty-six photographs in both black and white and sumptuous color. Today, in bustling and thriving Southeast Asia, Malacca looks like a town that history passed by, but this was not always so. In the fifteenth century it developed into the capital of a sophisticated bureaucratic state ruled by a sultan. In the sixteenth century, at its peak, it was for Europa the most important entrepot in the East Indies.
Founded around the year 1400 by a Sumatran prince, Mala...
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