Old Penang
For centuries Penang was part of the Muslim state of Kedah, but after the intervention in 1786 of a `forgotten' English trader, Captain Francis Light, it became a British mercantile and shipping outpost, administered as part of British India and renamed Prince of Wales Island. From this first t...
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Singapore,New York
Oxford University Press
1991
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| Institutions: | Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh |
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