Suchergebnisse

1. The earliest English contact with Burma -- 2. The episode of Thomas Samuel -- 3. The foundation of the Syriam factory and its early prosperity, 1647-52 -- 4. The failure of the Syriam factory -- 5. Conditions of trade experienced by English merchants in Burma in the seventeenth century -- 6. Negotiations with Burma, 1680-86 -- 7. The Negrais episode, 1686-87 -- 8. Private trade and the affair of Bartholomew Rodrigues -- 9. The mission of Edward Fleetwood and James Lesly to Ava, 1695-96 -- 10. The period of intermittent relations, 1697-1723 -- 11. Shipbuilding and the last years of the Syriam factory, 1722-44.

At the end of a Cornell seminar a few weeks ago, a student remarked that the great difficulty in studying Southeast Asian history lay in the immense size of the area, and in the fact that it contained so many different countries. I agreed, but commented that they all belonged to Southeast Asia, and I went on, "If you were. to take indigenes from the different countries and dress them all exactly alike, it would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to identify the country of origin of each and all."