Raffles: And the Golden Opportunity

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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 c…

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Full title :Raffles : And the Golden Opportunity.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2012.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Profile
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (562 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781847658241, 1847658245
oclc:ocn817892799
LC Classification:DS646.26
Dewey Decimal:959.570

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Maps; Introduction; 1 The Boy from Walworth and the Circassian Bride; 2 Great Expectations; 3 Rising on the Thermals; 4 'All Roads are Long that Lead to One's Heart's Desire'; 5 The Lieutenant-Governor of Java; 6 'Too Sensational'; 7 Theatre of Shadows; 8 'She is Devotedly Attached to Me'; 9 Sir Stamford Raffles; 10 The Golden Opportunity; 11 Founding Father; 12 'My Almost Only Child'; 13 Fame in Flames; 14 Endgame; 15 What Happened to the Others?; Note on Sources; Endnotes; Bibliography; List of Illustrations; Index.

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Administrateurs coloniaux -- Biographie… Biographies Colonial administrators Colonial administrators -- Biography. -… Great Britain Hommes d'État -- Biographies. -- Grande… Indonesia Raffles, Thomas Stamford, Sir) Statesmen Statesmen -- Biography. -- Great Britain