These are books mentioned in my lectures on-board Regent Voyager on her cruise Dubai to Singapore November 2019 to December 2019.
Skimming the History of the Honorable East India Company Books
Sugar, James Walvin
Sweetness and Power, Sidney W. Mintz
Spices, A Global History, Fred Czarra
Green Gold: The Empire of Tea, Alan MacFarlane and Iris MacFarlane
The Embarrassment of Riches, Simon Schama
The Dutch East Company and the British India Company, Charles River, Editors
Jan Compagnie in War and Peace 1602-1799, C.R. Boxer
Dutch Ships in Tropical Waters, Robert Parthesius
The Dutch Republic, Jonathan I Israel
Dutch East India and Shipbuilding, Wendy can Duivenvoorde
Batavia’s Graveyard, Mike Dash
Merchant in Asia, Els M. Jacobs
The Honourable Company, John Keay
Battles of the Honourable East India Co, M.S. Naravane
The East India Company, Hourly History
The Corporation that Changed the World, Nick Robins
The East India Co., Trade and Conquest from 1600, Anthony Wild
The Anarchy, William Dalrymple
Embassy to the Eastern Courts Books
When America First Met China, Eric Jay Dolin
A Splendid Exchange, William J. Bernstein
The Empire of Tea, Alan MacFarlane and Iris MacFarlane
American Lion, Jon Meacham
Sea of Glory, Nathaniel Philbrick
Embassy to the Eastern Courts, Andrew C.A. Jampoler
The Indian Ocean Cruises of Admiral Zheng He Books
Pacific, Simon Winchester
Early Mapping of the Pacific, Thomas Suartz
Embarrassment of Riches, Simon Schama
China, A History, John Keay
When China Ruled the Seas, Louise Levathes
The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom, John Pomfret
1421 The Year China Discovered America, Gavin Menzies
1434, Gavin Menzies
Disease and History Books
The Great Mortality, John Kelly
The Great Influenza, John M. Barry
The Ghost Map, Steven Johnson
Flu, Gina Kolata
The American Plague, Molly Caldwell Crosby
The Cholera Years, Charles E. Rosenberg
Disease in History, Frederick F. Cartwright
Epidemics in History, Sheldon Watts
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Roy Porter
Death in Hamburg, Richard J. Evans
The Living in the Shadow of Death, Sheila M Rothman
The Coming Plague, Laurie Garrett
The End of the Beginning, Michael Kinch
The Panic Virus, Seth Mnookin
Autism’s False Prophets, Paul A Offit
The Vaccine Race, Meredith Wadman
Between Hope and Fear, Michael Kinch
Bad Faith, Paul A. Offit
Rudyard Kipling, the Bard of Empire and Nobel Laureate Books
Decline and Fall of the British Empire 1781-1997, Piers Brendon
Indian Summer, Alex von Tunzelmann
Empire, Neil Ferguson
The Great Mutiny: India 1857, Christopher Hibbert
India, John Keay
A Circle of Sisters, Judith Flanders
Rudyard Kipling: Something of Myself, edited Thomas Pinney
European Exploration and Mapping Southeast Asia Books
Longitude, Dava Sobel
Against the Gods, Peter L. Bernstein
The Fourth Part of the World, Toby Lester
Empire of Cotton, Sven Beckert
Conquerors, Roger Crowley
The Embarrassment of Riches, Simon Schama
Batavia’s Graveyard, Mike Dash
French Indochina and the Battle of Dien Bien Phu Books
Street Without Joy, Bernard B. Fall
Hell in a Very Small Place, Bernard B. Fall
Vietnam: A History, Stanley Karnow
The Angel of Dien Bien Phu, Genevieve Galard
Valley of Death, Ted Morgan
The Last Valley, Martin Windrow
Singapore in Peace and War Books
Forgotten Armies, Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper
The Honourable Company, John Keay
The Second World War, John Keegan
Decline and Fall of the British Empire, Piers Brendon
The Singapore and Melaka Straits, Peter Borchberg
Singapore: A Biography, Ravinder Frost and Yu_mei Balasingamchow
The Hinge of Fate, Winston Churchill
The Mutiny in Singapore, Sho Kuwajima
The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanigan
Web sites for maps
Davidrumsey.com
Raremaps.com
Digitalcollections.nypl.org
Library.Princeton.edu
Loc.gov/maps
Bl.uk/subjects/maps
Legacy.lib.utexas.edu/maps