The Making of the “Malay Pirate” in Early Modern European Thought

This article traces the long historical background of the nineteenth-century European notion of the Malay as a human “race” with an inherent addiction to piracy. For most of the early modern period, European observers of the Malay Archipelago associated the Malays with the people and diaspora of the...

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Main Author: Stefan Eklöf Amirell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-08-01
Series:Humanities
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/9/3/91