The Malay Archipelago is one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth, but it suffers high extinction risks due to severe anthropogenic pressures. Paleobotanical knowledge provides baselines for the conservation of living analogs and improved understanding of vegetation, biogeography, and paleoenviro...
Contains the taxonomic revision of one family, Myristicaceae, for Malesia, i.e. the area covering the countries Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam, Singapore, the Philippines, and Papua New Guinea.
Eric Frécon's study starkly reveals the fragility of the internal societies and the inadequate regulation of the Asian region by boldly plunging into a reality- that of piracy- that during the Cold War had been habitually restricted to notes of secret agents or for the reports of some original journ...
Arriving at a consensus on the typology of piracy seems to be as difficult as arriving at a unanimous definition of this phenomenon. Each one’s interest broadly determines the modes of classification. In August 1992, Eric Ellen made a distinction between attacks affecting ships and those targeting g...
“My name is Ellen, Eric Ellen”. The introduction does not sound quite as slick as that of James Bond, but then the Director of the International Maritime Bureau is more along the lines of Holmes or Poirot rather than the glamorous Pierce Brosnan or Sean Connery. However after Le Pirate noir (1926),...
2.1. Causes Related to the Milieu 2.1.1. The weight of tradition Though hard to evaluate, the existence of this factor cannot be ignored. According to Eric Ellen, Director of the International Maritime Bureau, the Malay pirates most often originate from small fishing villages or kampung, where pirac...
“Fugitives of unclear events, dancing shadows at raging fires, anonymous silhouettes of complicated nocturnal struggles, Pirates are not made for History, a majestic History that has wisely unfolded, where people and things take position with clarity around a Great Man: a motley, confused and buzzin...
At the outset, it has to be accepted that private shipping companies, troubled by the competition that they face, have not always shown enthusiasm in their common initiatives that are few and far between. The questions, formulated in 1995 by the magazine Intersec, on behalf of ship owners, continue...
Contrary to terrorist movements and despite the recognised cruelty, pirates have widely inspired poets, painters and filmmakers. Some companies have made use of this fascination but the day has not (yet) come when Playmobil and Lego will substitute their “pirate” caskets by figurines of “Ben Laden”...
7.1. Obstacles Disappear, Countries Appear In 1996, a legal expert concluded his doctoral thesis on maritime piracy with the “observation that a state of international apathy and inertia existed”. This passiveness could be justified by the lack of means. For instance, it is difficult for Indonesia t...
In 1925, then later in 1958, two famous legal experts were all set to sound the death knell of pirates. Whereas one of them wondered if the “crime of piracy” was “obsolete”, according to the second, piracy was “no longer a general problem”. At the dawn of the third millennium, the question of defini...
4.1. Economic and Commercial Stakes As early as 1776, once the chapter of Black-beard, Bonnet and Kidd had been closed, British economist Adam Smith had pointed out that, “in general, the protection of commerce had always been considered essential for the defence of the Commonwealth and was therefor...
Singapore in the new economic geography: From geographic location to the relocation of economic dynamics Loïs Bastide Singapore was founded as a node within the extensive network of trading routes that developed across the British Empire. The settlement's value lay in its highly strategic location b...
Bianca Maria Gerlich It was the object of this article to discover possible historical traces of the basic structure of the novel-cycle Ciclo dei Pirati della Malesia by Emilio Salgari, in particular the historical existence of its chief protagonist Sandokan. Since historical facts corresponding to...
Chlenov M., Sirk U. The 14th Pacific Science Congress —Khabarovsk, August 1979 : the Malay Archipelago as seen by ethnologists, archeologists and linguists. In: Archipel, volume 21, 1981. pp. 23-25.
Moreau François. H. H. Zeijlstra, Melchior Treub, pioneer of a new era in the History of the Malay Archipelago. In: Revue d'histoire des sciences et de leurs applications, tome 13, n°2, 1960. pp. 164-165.
THE following sketch of the races and peoples of Borneo is based upon the observations of the Cambridge Expedition to Sarawak in 1899 and those of Dr. A. W. Nieuwenhuis in his expeditions to Netherlands Borneo in 1894, 1896- 1897, and 1898-1900 (Quer durcit Bomeo, Leiden, vol. i., 1904, vol. ii., 19...