Contents:

1. The Approach to Melaka
2. The Last Years of Dutch Melaka
3. The Surrender
4. The British Take Over
5. The Early Days of British Administration
6. ‘This Important Subject’
7. ‘Delenda Est Malacca’
8. Raffles in Melaka – Second Thoughts
9. London Decides
10. The Dutch Return
11. Melaka and Singapore
12. Return of the British
13. Turbulent Frontiers
14. ‘A Picturesque Backwater’

Bibliography
Index