Held's History of Sumbawa: An Annotated Translation

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. Dutch Indologist Gerrit Jan Held wrote this book in 1955 but died before it could be published; this volume represents its first translation into English, and includes extensive footnotes that set it in context of current research.

• | Author: Hans Hägerdal
• | Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 22, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 212 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 9462981612
• | ISBN-13: 9789462981614