GOVT3999 Lecture 8: wk8 Piracy in Asia and Colonial counter-measures

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Government and International Relations
• Course: GOVT3999
• Professor: all

Document Summary

Owen rutter the pirate wind: tales of the sea robbers of malaya (e-reserves) library. Eric tagliacozzo, secret trades, porous borders: smuggling and states along a southeast asian. (singapore: nus press, 2007), chapter 5 the spectre of violence . Entered the pacific ocean territory claimed by the spanish. Sailed through southeast asia/ indian ocean territory claimed by the portuguese. Sulu had been involved in the china trade in both yuan and ming periods. The maze of the tiny islands that make up the riau archipelago opposite singapore served as a natural choke point for pirate havens . the marshes and creeks served as refugees for pirates. Yet the largest problem facing the early colonial administration was the fact that pirates could disappear and re-appear out of nowhere- used to mangroves , tree watchhouses , mobile dwellings. Sulu ships were only marginally inferior to the colonial administration, in the early decades.