دانلود کتاب Raffles and Hastings: Private Exchanges Behind the Founding of Singapore
by John Bastin
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عنوان فارسی: رافلز و هاستینگ: مبادلات خصوصی پشت تاسیس سنگاپور |
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This book provides an intimate account of Singapore’s founding by drawing on the personal correspondence between these two men, which they maintained separately from their official exchanges. Published here for the first time, these private letters reveal at first-hand the challenges that Raffles and Hastings faced in maneuvering within the Dutch-dominated East Indies. Just as significantly, they reveal the complex relationship between the two men—evolving from mutual suspicion at the outset to cooperation and admiration, but nonetheless peppered throughout with backbiting, hidden agendas and the clash of personal ambitions.
Historian John Bastin brings rigorous scholarship to bear on this work, at the same time presenting it in a clear, readable style that will engage specialist and general readers alike.