The history of trade unionism
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In: Reprints of economic classics
In: The economic history review, Band 25, Heft 2, S. 370
ISSN: 1468-0289
In: The Economic Journal, Band 30, Heft 118, S. 219
In: The Economic Journal, Band 12, Heft 46, S. 257
In: The Economic Journal, Band 4, Heft 15, S. 497
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In: Radical America, Band 6, Heft 5, S. 23-28
In: Materials for the study of business
In: Itinerario: international journal on the history of European expansion and global interaction, Band 24, Heft 1, S. 87-110
ISSN: 2041-2827
The first reference to a 'Sea of Melayu' is from an Arabic document dated c. 1000, which noted that travellers 'reaching the Sea of Melayu, were approaching the area of China'. While the location of the Sea of Melayu is not specified, the practice of naming a sea after a dominant people surrounding its shores suggests that this particular body of water must have been the Straits of Melaka. This is clear in the only other known reference to the use of this name, which is found inDescription of Malacca, Meridional India and Cathaywritten in 1613 by Emanuel Godinho de Eredia, a Eurasian Jesuit born in Portuguese Melaka. Eredia refers to the Sea of Melayu as that 'land-enclosed sea between the mainland of Ujontana [Malay Peninsula] and the Golden Chersonese [Sumatra]'. He was clearly referring to the Straits of Melaka, though it was obviously not yet called that by his contemporaries. Eredia's description of that 'land-enclosed sea' clearly reveals a commonly held assumption of the greater significance of a land mass over a body of water. But for Malays and many other sea and riverine peoples, the focus was on water, not land, and entities were formed by seas and rivers joined by short land passages.
In: Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, Band 104, Heft 613, S. 18-31
ISSN: 1744-0378