A History of Brunei

by Saunders,Graham

• ISBN13: 9780700716982
• ISBN10: 070071698X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-10-25
• Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon

Summary

The only full-length study of the Brunei Sultanate from the earliest times to the present. First published in 1994 and a sell-out success, Curzon is pleased to present this new edition, updated to the present. Saunders skilfully elucidates historiographical controversies over important events, persons and developments in Brunei's past which are still important issues in defining Brunei's identity and its political and social systems today. These controversies, over the antecedents of the Sultanate, the date of the conversion to Islam, the reigns of the early sultans, early contacts with Europeans and others, retain their relevance. Newly presented are interpretations of events since 1945 during the transition from protected state to full independence, and thence to the present Malay Islamic Monarchy.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Figure	xi
Maps	xi
Plates	xii
Abbreviations	xiv
Introduction	xv
Part I From Earliest Times to the Creation of the Sultanate	1	(32)
The Earliest Kingdoms	3	(18)
Pre-Islamic Brunei	21	(12)
Part II The Rise and Decline of the Brunei Thalassocracy	33	(34)
The Early Muslim Sultanate to c. 1550	35	(14)
A Century of Conflict, c. 1550-c. 1650	49	(13)
Stagnation and Decline, c. 1650-c. 1770	62	(5)
Part III Brunei, the British, and the Brookes, c.1770-1906	67	(32)
The Struggle for Survival, c. 1770-1870	69	(18)
Almost Terminal Decline, 1870-1906	87	(12)
Part IV The Residency, 1906-1959	99	(40)
Brunei Preserved: The Residency from Its Establishment to 1941	101	(20)
The Japanese Interregnum and the Last Years of the Residency, 1941-1959	121	(18)
Part V From Protected State to Full Independence	139	(64)
Rebellion, Malaysia, and Abdication, 1959-1967	141	(20)
Reluctant Independence, 1967-1984	161	(17)
The First Decade of Independence	178	(14)
Brunei to 2001	192	(11)
Glossary	203	(3)
Bibliography	206	(7)
Index	213