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BOOK REVIEW: The Story of Malacca (Sultans & Spices, Guns & Greed, Race & Religion)
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BOOK REVIEW: The Story of Malacca (Sultans & Spices, Guns & Greed, Race & Religion)

By Allein Moore, Partridge Books, 168pp, Hardcover, Paperback & eBook, 2022

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Why is Melaka, once the flourishing Malay Sultanate of the 15th Century, without a sultan now? Author Allein Moore reveals how Melaka lost its sultan permanently in 1511. Or rather, how the ill-advised Sultan Mahmud Shah lost Melaka forever.

This book review spotlights Moore’s Melaka until the arrival of the Portuguese, which is the most interesting time…

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