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Raffles --- Lotteries

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Gamelan. --- Raffles, Thomas Stamford,

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During his last voyage back to England, the ship of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826) caught fire, consuming many of the papers from which future biographers might have worked. When he died two years later, the task of sifting through the surviving materials and recording his life and career fell to his widow Sophia (1786-1858). Her substantial biography, first published in 1830, remains an essential source of information about one of the key figures of British colonialism in the East Indies. At the centre of the book, interspersed with many of her husband's letters, is Raffles' struggle against his Dutch opponents, with whom he clashed on ideological grounds - he noted with distaste their mistreatment of the local population and their advocacy of slavery. It was this rivalry which convinced Raffles to found Singapore as a trading post. His two-volume History of Java (1817) is also reissued in this series.

Colonial administrators --- Civil service, Colonial --- Government executives --- Raffles, Thomas Stamford, --- Raffles, Thomas Stamford --- Lai-fo-shih, --- Raffles, Stamford,

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Criminals --- Raffles (Fictitious character) --- Drama --- England --- Drama. --- Criminals - Drama --- Raffles (Fictitious character) - Drama --- England - Drama

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Il fallait être visionnaire, ou un peu fou, pour créer une cité-Etat au milieu des marais. C'est pourtant ce que fit Stamford Raffles (1781-1826) en fondant Singapour. Cette grande figure de la Compagnie des Indes orientales, qui fut aussi naturaliste et ethnologue à sa façon, laissa son nom à une riche collection du British Museum. Chargé d'en conserver les merveilles, l'anthropologue Nigel Barley décide un jour de savoir qui était vraiment Raffles.D'aventures en mésaventures, sillonnant toute l'Indonésie sur ses traces, il finira par percer les secrets de cet homme hors du commun.

Raffles, Thomas Stamford, - Sir, - 1781-1826 --- Southeast Asia