The memoirs and memorials of Jacques de Coutre security, trade, and society in 16th and 17th-Century Southeast Asia

Jacques de Coutre was a Flemish gem trader who spent nearly a decade in Southeast Asia at the turn of the 17th century. He left history a substantial autobiography written in Spanish and preserved in the National Library of Spain in Madrid. Written in the form of a picaresque tale, with an acute eye...

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