Held's History of Sumbawa: An Annotated Translation

by Hans Hägerdal and Gerrit Jan Held

Sumbawa is a medium-sized island in eastern Indonesia which has a particularly interesting past. In the premodern era it lay on the trade routes that connected the north coasts of the islands of Melaka and Java with the spice-producing areas in Maluku, while Sumbawa itself exported horses, sappan wood, and rice. Its recorded history covers periods of Hindu-Javanese influence, the Southeast Asian Age of Commerce, early Islamisation, and Dutch colonialism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9462981612
• ISBN13: 9789462981614
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"