Held's History of Sumbawa. An Annotated Translation

Sumbawa is a medium-sized island in eastern Indonesia which has a particularly interesting past. In the premodern era it lay on the trade routes that connected the north coasts of the islands of Melaka and Java with the spice-producing areas in Maluku, while Sumbawa itself exported horses, sappan wood, and rice. Its recorded history covers periods of Hindu-Javanese influence, the Southeast Asian Age of Commerce, early Islamisation, and Dutch colonialism. Dutch Indologist Gerrit Jan Held wrote this book in 1955 but died before it could be published; this volume represents its first translation into English, and includes extensive footnotes that set it in context of current research.松巴哇岛（Sumbawa）是印度尼西亚东部的中等规模岛屿，拥有一段尤为引人入胜的过往。在前现代时期，它坐落于连接马六甲（Melaka）与爪哇（Java）诸岛北海岸与马鲁古（Maluku）香料产区的贸易航线上，同时松巴哇岛自身也出口马匹、苏木（sappan wood）与稻米。其有文字记载的历史涵盖了印度教-爪哇文化影响时期、东南亚商业时代、早期伊斯兰化进程以及荷兰殖民统治阶段。荷兰印度学家格里特·扬·赫尔德（Gerrit Jan Held）于1955年撰写完成这部著作，却未能在生前见证其出版；本卷为该书的首个英译本，并收录了大量用于将其置于当前研究语境中的详尽注释。