Search Results: early english intercourse with burma 1587 1743 by dge hall

London.: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd.. Second edition.. 1968.. With The Tragedy of Negrais as a new appendix, viii + 357pp, index, bibliography, appendices, hardback covered with wrapped plastic, spine lightly sunned and bumped, still a very good copy "First published in 1928, the book constitutes the first attempt yet made to trace the story of English intercourse with Burma from its origins in the 16th century to the middle of the 18th, framed by the period from the opening to the final years of the Syriam factory. Daniel G.E. Hall sought to fill a gap in the literature for students of British enterprise in the East, drawing out the progress of Burma from a commercially unviable backwater to arguably the richest province in resources of the British empire in India." (Publisher's description.) .

London 1928, Longmans. Blue cloth, very clean, 276p., index, bibliography, 8 appendices. S C A R C E This comprehensive source addresses the earliest English co- ntact with Burma, T.Samuel episode, foundation of the Syriam factory 1647-52, and its later failure. British-Burmese tra- de of the 17th century. Negotiations with Burma 1680-86, the Negrais episode 1686-87. Private trade and the B. Rodrigues affair. Mission of Fleetwood and Lesly to Ave 1695-96. Ship- building and the last years of the Syriam Factory 1722-44. With valuable appendices of East India Co. trade, Hamilton's observations on "Rounday" in the Burmese provincial capital, his Royal reception of Ambassadors at Ava, King Sane, Mergui Massacre 1687. Note on alleged settlement in Negrais in 1687 &c. This is a very important history, well documented.SCARCE .