B.A. (Hons.) (Kent); Ph.D. (Cambridge)
Tel: (65) 6516 6539
Office: AS1 05 - 15
I teach early Modern European history, imperial
history with a focus on Southeast Asia and on the
subject of early modern trade. My research interests
have focused on the life and work of the Dutch humanist
lawyer Hugo Grotius but I've also branched out into
Spanish, Dutch and Portuguese imperial history,
the history of the Ideal Republic and the history
of the modern law of nations.
TEACHING
AREAS:
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European
history (modern and early modern) |
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Imperial
history with focus on Southeast Asia (Spain,
Portugal, Netherlands) |
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Early
modern trade |
CURRENT RESEARCH:
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The
history of early colonial Southeast-Asia |
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Origins
of the modern law of nations |
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The
just war theory |
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
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Grotius, the Portuguese and ‘Free Trade’ in the East Indies (Singapore: NUS Press, 2010, forthcoming). |
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The Singapore and Melaka Straits: Security, Trade and Violence in the Seventeenth Century (Singapore: NUS Press, 2009).
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“Grotius, Maritime Intra-Asian Trade and the Portuguese Estado da India: Problems, Perspectives and Insights from De Iure Praedae” in Property, Piracy and Punishment, ed. Hans Blom (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2009), pp. 31-60. |
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With Martin Krieger, M. (eds.) Water and State in Asia and Europe (Delhi: Manohar Publishers, 2008). |
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“Fictitious Strait and Imagined Island: Singapura in the late 16th and early 17th century, Oriente”, no. 18, 2007, pp. 45-67.
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“The Euro-Asian Trade and Medicinal Usage of Radix Chinae”, in European Travellers and the Asian Natural World, Part 1, edited by Rui Manuel Loureiro, Revista de Cultura, International Edition, 20, October 2006, pp. 102-115. |
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