Familiar strangers and stranger-kings : mobility, diasporas, and the foreign in the eighteenth-century Malay world

• Main Author: Koh, Keng We
• Other Authors: School of Humanities
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Eighteenth Century; Diaspora; DRNTU::Humanities::History
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/90222; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/47233
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Early modern Malay historiography has been dominated by the history of European trading, colonial empires and local port-polities, often framed along indigenous-versus-foreign lines. Yet, mobility has long been a central feature of this region shaped by commerce, as evidenced by the historical pheno...