Peter Borschberg

Peter Borschberg is Associate Professor of European History at the Department of History, National University of Singapore, Singapore. He is a specialist in Europe-Asia interaction, trade, exploration and cartography during the period 1450-1800. He also holds a special interest in the History of Singapore, the Melaka Sultanate, the Johore Sultanate as well as the historical development of international law.

Background

Borschberg obtained a PhD in history at Cambridge University. He has been awarded by the Republic of Singapore the Pingat Pentadbiran Awam (PPA), Gangsa, in 2008, and the Pingat Bakti Setia (PBS) in 2018. He is a fellow of the both the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Geographical Society in London. Past an current appointments include Visiting Professor in modern history at the University of Greifswald; Visiting Professor at the Asia-Europe-Institute, University of Malaya; George-Lyndon-Hicks Fellow at the National Library of Singapore (NLS), and fellow-in-residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS).

Selected works

• Borschberg, P., Hugo Grotius, the Portuguese and Free Trade in the East Indies (Leiden and Singapore: KITLV Press and NUS Press, 2011). https://isbnsearch.org/isbn/9789971694678.

• Borschberg, P., The Singapore and Melaka Straits: Violence, Security and Diplomacy in the 17th Century (Leiden and Singapore: KITLV Press and NUS Press, 2010).

• Borschberg, P., ed., Iberians in the Singapore-Melaka Area and Adjacent Regions (16th to 18th Century), South China and Maritime Asia, vol. 14 (Wiesbaden and Lisbon: Otto Harrassowitz and Fundação Oriente, 2004). https://isbnsearch.org/isbn/9783447051071

• Kwa Chong Guan, and Borschberg, P., ed., Studying Singapore before 1800 (Singapore: NUS Press, 2018). https://isbnsearch.org/isbn/9789814722742

• Borschberg, P., “Three questions about maritime Singapore, 16th and 17th Centuries”, Ler História, 72 (2018): 31-54. The article is freely downloadable at: https://journals.openedition.org/lerhistoria/3234

• Borschberg, P., and Khoo, Benjamin J. Q., “Singapore as a Port City, c.1290-1819: Evidence, Frameworks and Challenges”, Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 91, 1 no. 314, (2018): 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2018.0001

• Borschberg, P.,“Singapore and its Straits, c.1500-1800”, Indonesia and the Malay World, 45, no. 133 (2017): 373-390. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639811.2017.1340493

• Borschberg, P., “The Value of Admiral Matelieff’s Writings for Studying the History of Southeast Asia, c.1600-20”, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 48, 3 (2017): 414-435. https://doi.org/10.1017/S002246341700056X

• Borschberg, P., “From Self-Defence to an Instrument of War: Dutch Privateering around the Malay Peninsula in the Early Seventeenth Century”, Journal of Early Modern History, 17, (2013): 35-52. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700658-12342356

• Borschberg, P., “The Singapore Straits in the Latter Middle Ages and Early Modern Period (c.13th to 17th Centuries). Facts, Fancy and Historiographical Challenges”, Journal of Asian History, 46.2 (2012): 59-90. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41933621

• Borschberg, P., “Grotius, Maritime Intra-Asian Trade and the Portuguese Estado da India: Problems, Perspectives and Insights from ‘De Jure Praedae’, Grotiana, New Series, 26-8 (2007-9): 31-60. https://doi.org/10.1163/187607508X366463

Links

https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n97015130 (accessed 8 October, 2018).

http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/hist/About-Us/Faculty.html (accessed 7 October, 2018).

http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/srn/?meet-the-researcher=associate-professor-peter-borschberg (accessed 8 October, 2018).

https://aei.um.edu.my/about-us/academics/peter-borschberg (accessed 7 October, 2018).

https://phil.uni-greifswald.de/institute/einrichtungen/gk-baltic-borderlands/fellows/visiting-professors (accessed 7 October, 2018).