STRAITS SETTLEMENTS

collective name for certain former British colonies in Southeast Asia. The three British East India Company territories of Pinang, Singapore, and Malacca (see Melaka) were given a unified administration in 1826 and called the Straits Settlements. The company was dissolved in 1858, and the territories were placed under the jurisdiction of the India Office. In 1867 the Straits Settlements became a crown colony administered by the Colonial Office. Labuan, which had been made a dependency of Singapore in 1906, was constituted a fourth Settlement in 1912. (Christmas Island and the Cocos Islands had been made dependencies of Singapore in 1889 and 1903, respectively.) The Straits Settlement crown colony was dissolved in 1946; Singapore with its dependencies became a separate crown colony, and Pinang and Malacca were included in the Malayan Union, which became the Federation of Malaya in 1948, now Malaysia.

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British Rule in Eastern Asia: A Study of Contemporary Government and Economic Development in British Malaya and Hong Kong
Book by Lennox A. Mills; Oxford University Press, 1942
Subjects: Great Britain--Colonies--Administration, Hong Kong (China)--Economic Conditions, Hong Kong (China)--Politics And Government, Malay Peninsula--Economic Conditions, Malaysia--Politics And Government, Straits Settlements--Politics And Government
...Governments of Malaya. The Straits Settlements. The Federated Malay States...III. FINANCE The Straits Settlements. Federated Malay States...government hardly exists. The Straits Settlements are a Crown Colony of the...
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Turkey at the Straits: A Short History
Book by James T. Shotwell, Francis Deák; The Macmillan Company, 1940
Subjects: Bosporus (Turkey), Eastern Question (Balkan), Straits Question, Turkey--Foreign Relations
...history the control of the Straits enabled those pre-Trojan and...toward the Black Sea. Of these settlements less is known than of those...Apart from the territorial settlements, the Treaty dealt mainly...points: the question of the Straits...
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The Bank for International Settlements: Evolution and Evaluation
Book by James C. Baker; Quorum Books, 2002
Subjects: Bank For International Settlements, Banks And Banking, Central, International Finance
The Bank for International Settlements The Bank for International Settlements Evolution and Evaluation JAMES C. BAKER...James Calvin, 1935 The Bank for International Settlements : evolution and evaluation / James C. Baker...
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French Explorations and Settlements in North America and Those of the Portuguese, Dutch, and Swedes, 1500-1700
Book by Justin Winsor; Houghton Mifflin, 1884
Subjects: America--Antiquities, America--Bibliography, America--Discovery And Exploration, America--History, America--Maps, Early, Cartography--America, United States--History--Bibliography
...OF AMERICA French Explorations and Settlements In North America AND THOSE OF The...western side, and though all the early settlements were probably made that way, the configuration...small. All, or nearly all, the first settlements in the glaciated districts were made...
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Roman Britain and the English Settlements
Book by R. G. Collingwood, J. N. L. Myres; Biblo and Tannen, 1990
Subjects: Great Britain--History--Anglo Saxon Period, 449-1066, Great Britain--History--Roman Period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D
...The Growth of the English Settlements " " 456 BOOK I...A traveller going from the Straits of Dover towards the Welsh...through the North Downs to the Straits of Dover, and one through...The third group crosses the Straits of Dover and reaches Britain...
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Trade and Society in the Straits of Melaka: Dutch Melaka and English Penang, 1780-1830
Journal article by Timothy P. Barnard; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 39, 2008
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Trade and Society in the Straits of Melaka: Dutch Melaka and English Penang, 1780-1830 (Book)--Book reviews
...English, would become a backwater after it came under English control in 1824 and the subsequent formation of the Straits Settlements in 1826. By 1830 Melakas glory as a Malay and European company port had passed; Penang also was to become a secondary...
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Emporium in Imperio: Nanyang Networks and the Straits Chinese in Singapore, 1819-1914
Journal article by Mark Ravinder Frost; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 36, 2005
Subjects: Nanyang, China--Social aspects, Overseas Chinese--History, Singapore--Demographic aspects
...local-born), Baba or, in the Straits Settlements, Straits Chinese. Their frequent...several Baba firms in the Straits Settlements began trading with traditional...migration into Singapore, the Straits Settlements and beyond. In the late 1840s...
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Export Commodity and Regional Currency: The Role of Chinese Copper Coins in the Melaka Straits, Tenth to Fourteenth Centuries
Journal article by Derek Thiam Soon Heng; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 37, 2006
Subjects: China--Economic aspects, China--History, Copper coins--Economic aspects, Copper coins--History
...other northern Melaka Straits region port settlements of that time. The presence...is likely that port settlements in the Melaka Straits with a significant...evident at such Melaka Straits region port settlements as Kota Cina during...
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Between Reality and Secrecy: Israel's Freedom of Navigation through the Straits of Tiran, 1956-1967
Journal article by Eitan Barak; The Middle East Journal, Vol. 61, 2007
Subjects: Egypt, Israel, Market prices, Politics, Shipping industry, Ships, Studies
...oil pipeline from Eilat to northern Israel to establishing settlements (populated by soldiers in civilian dress) in the recently...the first Israeli warship (the frigate Miznak) traversed the Straits for the first time since Israels independence in 1948 and...
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Contesting Straits-Malayness: The Fact of Borneo
Journal article by James T. Collins; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 32, 2001
Subjects: Austronesian languages--Research, Borneo--Languages, Linguistic research--Analysis, Malays (Asian people)--Languages, Malaysia--Languages
...reconnoitre beyond the Melaka Straits. In this preliminary essay...and Dayaks are bilingual, settlements on the Sekadau River present...Malay heartland, along the Straits of Melaka. In Sumatra, Riau...existence of a large cluster of settlements along the Taman River, a tributary...
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Decolonization and the Pergau Dam Affair
Magazine article by Karl Hack; History Today, Vol. 44, November 1994
Subjects: Colonization--Malaysia, Malaysia--Relations with United Kingdom, Public contracts--Malaysia, United Kingdom--Relations with Malaysia
...still restricted to the |Straits Settlements colony. This consisted of...inter-penetration of the Straits Settlements and the Malay sultanates...the new governor of the Straits Settlements, Sir Andrew Clarke, concluded...
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Chinese Burns Britain in China 1842-1900
Magazine article by Robert Bickers; History Today, Vol. 50, August 2000
Subjects: China--History, England--Relations with China, Imperialism--England
...servants of empire: shop clerks, engineers and police constables. Baghdadi Jews from India, overseas Chinese from the Straits Settlements, Sikh policemen and Eurasians from Hong Kong all lived and worked under British protection in China. There was...
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August's Anniversaries: Blake in State ... Streaming Ahead ... Malaya's Independence ... Richard Cavendish Looks at August's Anniversaries
Magazine article by Richard Cavendish; History Today, Vol. 57, August 2007
Subjects: Admirals--Appreciation, Anniversaries, Autonomy (Political science)--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Autonomy--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Blacke, Robert--Appreciation, Fulton, Robert--Appreciation, Inventors--Appreciation, Malaysia--Political aspects, Malaysia--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations
...Sir Stamford Raffles founded a British settlement on the island of Singapore in 1819 and by 1830 the British Straits Settlements also included Malacca. From the 1870s the sultans of the small Malay states began accepting British advisers...
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Ice Fishing; How Pillsbury, Quaker Oats, and Drexel Burnham Got Millions in Cool Cash from Alaska's Eskimos
Magazine article by Bob Ortega; Washington Monthly, Vol. 20, July 1988
Subjects: Corporate income taxes--Laws, regulations, etc., Federal-state controversies--Political aspects, State taxation--Alaska, Tax exemption--Laws, regulations, etc.
...most of the payments were made, the reports concluded, the settlements "actual value was far less than anticipated." Seventeen years...1983, Charlie Johnson was hunting for ways to keep his Bering Straits Corporation a step ahead of the wolves when he ran into Patrick...
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Another Year of Living Dangerously?
Magazine article by Rajan Menon; The National Interest, Fall 2001
Subjects: Economic history--Indonesia, Ethnic relations--Indonesia, Indonesia--Economic aspects, Indonesians--Social aspects, Megawati Sukarnoputri--Political activity, Religion--Political aspects, Suharto--Political activity
...important a country will assuredly not curb but increase long-term violence and disorder. The United States should also favor settlements in Aceh and West Papua that offer autonomy and address in bold, convincing ways the economic and social problems that feed...
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Just What Dr M Ordered
Newspaper article; Sunday Business (London, England), February 4, 2001
...forever, you know," harrumphed the governor of the Straits Settlements, Sir Charles Mitchell, in 1897 on viewing the new...wretched urban poor of Indonesia, just across the narrow Straits of Malacca, and view the turmoil engulfing their huge...
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On a Food Trail in Singapore
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, July 31, 2005
...descendant," is a term identified with descendants of early Chinese immigrants who have married Malays from the British Straits Settlements of Singapore, Malacca and Penang in Malaysia. However, the Peranakan culture drew its influence from a diverse...
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A Showcase of Cultural Synergy
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, February 5, 2009
Subjects: Evolution, Evolution (Biology)
...artifacts in the world. Through the museum, guests can explore the culture of Peranakan communities in the former Straits settlements of Singapore, Malacca, and Penang and their links with other communities in Southeast Asia. Three floors of permanent...
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Those Triangular Bumper Pack Days; Clockwatch
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 22, 1996
...sixpence out of the Christmas pudding rolled into one. A triangular - from where, does anyone remember? Fiji? The Straits Settlements? Tristan da Cunha? - was supposed to have an incalculable rarity value, like a foreign coin with a hole in the...
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Why Things Can Only Get Worse
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), December 21, 2005
...choice to avoid even bigger black holes. But its financial straits are neither unusual nor extreme. The vast majority of final...years. Resources have been poured into public sector wage settlements, consultants fees, unwanted regional governmentinitiatives...
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Straits Settlements
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS collective name for certain...administration in 1826 and called the Straits Settlements. The company was dissolved in 1858...of the India Office. In 1867 the Straits Settlements became a crown colony administered...
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Melaka
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...504,502), 640 sq mi (1,658 sq km), Malaysia, S Malay Peninsula, on the Strait of Malacca. Formerly one of the Straits Settlements , it was constituted a state of Malaya in 1957 (see Malaysia ). Nearly half the population are Malay; about...
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Christmas Island , in the Indian Ocean
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...island is now a national park. The island was annexed by Great Britain in 1888 and became part of the former Straits Settlements in 1889. In 1958 it was ceded to Australia. The island has been used to detain and process Asian asylum seekers...
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Labuan
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...ceded to Great Britain by the sultan of Brunei in 1846 and became a crown colony in 1848. It was included in the Straits Settlements in 1906 and in 1946 was joined to British North Borneo, which became Sabah in 1963. It was at Labuan that...
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Singapore
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...importance. With them Singapore became part of the Straits Settlements in 1826. The development of Malaya under British...1945. In 1946, Singapore, no longer a part of the Straits Settlements, was constituted a crown colony, with Christmas...
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